But it is definitely faked, because there can never be hidden shown where your mail should be at.
If someone is censoring the time logged in with a big bar, why then so much effort to fake the email address show "hidden" instead of simply censoring the actual mail address ?

I believe the person on telegram simply took a screenshot of the profile and changed the name at the top "Hello X".




Nice job 

The very detective-like scammer would then simply check my pgp key, and take that email address for my profile 

But exactly this dilemma was the reason i requested proof of ownership before tagging accounts which were up to sale (u surely remember that drama i started) 
Screenshots can be faked. Especially if you have to do with account seller, who already scam other people anyways.

According to OP, there were a total of 2 transactions. One small "test" transaction and the larger one to the address mentioned above.
I doubt that the funds are still in his windows wallet, especially since the wallet is connected to the network.


@OP:
Can you please check whether address 16g5D1NDe7UDpfx3gwZpV7tvwbcfTeW4Ck belongs to any of your wallets (windows, and i am especially interested in whether it belongs to your tails wallet).

Not necessary, because he already entered:


which returned false.


Please read the thread before making suggestions which just clutter up this thread without being useful at all.

Wait.. so are you telling me that my flashlight app doesn't actually need location-, calendar-, network-, microphone-, contacts- , call-, sms- and storage permission to turn on the light?

But hell.. its just a click anyway.

/s

Has already been asked:


and answered:





Unfortunately i couldn't find out anything related.
The address is completely unused except for this one transaction, which makes it quite unlikely that you were infected by some clipping board malware (still possible tho).
But as far as i know, the creator of such a malware are some retarded script kiddies who can't even iterate through a list properly. Therefore i tend to say this was not the case.




If this really is the case, then you still should be able to somehow access your coins.

But as bitmover pointed out, some (at least 1) of your statements must be wrong.

Could you please answer the following questions (again, just to be sure):

• Where did you initially generate your seed (electrum on tails?)
• Where did you download electrum from? And how did you do it? Did you verify the pgp signature ?
• Do your current wallets addresses (on tails) indeed start with 1.. ?
• Did you check whether you can copy a random BTC address (preferably starting with 1..) and paste it anywhere without it being tampered with (on your online machine) ?
• Your first (small) transaction is also not visible in your tails wallet, correct ?
• Did you change any options in electrum? Did you generate a multisig or 2FA wallet ?

I know that these questions are redundant, but something isn't right and we have to figure out what.

Würde dir auch Kraken empfehlen.

Habe mit denen gute Erfahrungen gemacht. Es gibt zwar eine Lernkurve, aber da ist man recht schnell drin.
Die Vielzahl an Funktionen bietet dir im Endeffekt den Vorteil, dass du alles selber in der Hand hast.

Ein-/Auszahlen geht auch immer recht fix.


Vorallem aus diesem Grund ist Kraken eben auch zu empfehlen:

Das ist eine verkürzte Schreibweise.
Oben hast du den kompletten Fingerprint angegeben (40 stellen). Verkürzte Schreibweisen sind dann 8- (unsicher) oder 16-stellig.

Das ist ok so, kannst also ruhig weitermachen.

Nur halt darauf achten, dass die Signatur dann auch passt 

You can't visit this forum via http (301 Permanently moved).
Additionally HSTS is set, which means that your browser will automatically connect via https next time. So if you don't clear the cache of your browser, you don't even try to connect via http at all.




That's itself not possible without your browser trusting a CA from your ISP.
They would effectively be the man-in-the-middle in such a case.

Unfortunately this site does not have the HPKP header set, which would say that your browser can only trust the certificate if it is being handed out by CA X (certificate pinning). This would prevent any MITM attacks, even if a trusted CA signs a new certificate for this site in order to perform a MITM.

But the support should be able to help him.
If he has all the necessary login credentials and the only thing which stops him from gaining access to the wallet file is the authorization mail... then the support should indeed be able to help him.

They should at least try to see why the mail didn't arrive. Or whether it has been sent at all (given that the credentials from OP are correct, of course).




I am pretty sure that they didn't wipe their complete database.
So actually it should be wrong to say that this wallet doesn't exist.

With everything accessible (login credentials, email, "backup phrase") there definitely is a possibility of recovery.

The only problem seems to be the missing email. So either blockchain.com didn't send it out (for whatever reason) or it somehow is indeed the email providers fault (which would be unlikely).


This whole story is just another reason to not use shitty service like blockchain.com.
There is literally not a single good reason to use a web wallet.

Did you try opening the wallet as ETFbitcoin suggested ?

Is your wallet file encrypted ? How does it look like when opening it in a text editor ?
Is it just random garbage or human readable language ?

Also, are you sure that this wallet is from core ?
Core's wallet files usually have an extension (wallet.dat). Electrum on the other hand doesn't have any extension (e.g. default_wallet).

Definitely, yes.




Did you change the base unit to BTC ?
0.0035 BTC = 3.5mBTC. Did you enter it correctly based on the units you are using ?




There is a minimum which needs to be sent in order to be relayed by nodes.
But 0.0035 BTC is definitely way above this minimum.

No no.. i think you misunderstood me.

If you have your own email set as hidden, you still see it when visiting your own profile.
In the screenshot, the 'owner' is on his own profile. But the email is not shown. That's a clear sign for a fake.

I wasn't talking about hiding the email itself, just that it is not possible to see "hidden" when watching your own profile.

Then this means that this address does not belong to your wallet.


Is there a possibility that you have used a different mnemonic code when restoring it ?
Or did you use an additional "25th word" a.k.a. a passphrase ?

If both is not the case, then you either copy/pasted the wrong address or your online-pc is infected with some clipping board malware.
Try copying a random BTC address and paste it anywhere (e.g. notepad). Check whether it is the same address as copied.

Do you mind sharing the address with us ?

Nice catch.

This image definitely is faked. There is no other reason why the email address should be hidden.

If both address types are legacy, it seems like either you got infected by a clipping malware (malware changing BTC addresses in your clipping board) or you copy/pasted the wrong address.

The only way to be sure whether this address is part of your wallet is to check it via the console with ismine("...").

If this returns false, your only chance is that you have used the wrong mnemonic code to restore your wallet and that the correct one is still stored somewhere else. Otherwise your funds are unfortunately gone.

Please answer all questions 

You can't.
You need the private key. And without the secret information (the correct seed) which is used to derive it, its not possible.


Did you check whether this address belongs to your wallet ?
If it returns false, it is not and never was part of your wallet.
In this case you might have restored from the wrong mnemonic code ? Or the address changed while copying it (e.g. clipping board malware) ?
Are you sure that the address receiving the transaction was part of your wallet ?

What did the address start with ? 1.. 3.. or bc1.. ? Is it the same as the address of your current wallet ?

As far as i dislike trading accounts, this is not prohibited.
It is not against the forum rules, therefore no actions should be taken.

Generally, i would tag this account.
But unfortunately you can't be sure that this account is really up for sale. You just communicated with someone claiming that he is selling this account.

Well, if you need all transactions accessible then you can't use pruning mode since you need to have txindex enabled.

Those ~500GB do not come from core, right ?
For core fully synced you'll need roughly 250GB.

It seems like your only option is to get more storage. At least if you want to develop something which requires all transactions being indexed.

Does your appllication only need to handle transactions affecting your wallet ? Or all transactions ?
If it is the latter one, you need txindex enabled (which implies no pruning possible), otherwise not.




How much storage do you have accessible ?
If your node is pruned and you remove it, then you'll need to resync.
Same applies to if you had txindex disabled, and enable it.

Otherwise, it should not be necessary.