Are you using the Blockchain mobile app on your phone? Or are you logging in via a browser to the website?

I tried using the mobile app and got asked for my 2nd password, and it worked "OK"... logging in via the browser does not, it just makes me do the email link authorisation thing, and then opens the wallet.


Maybe try using your browser if the app is causing problems.

Quoted For Truth... have you watch "The Social Dilemma"? that is some scary shit...

What is really interesting to me, is that I regularly receive emails on my personal email address, clearly intended for other people who have the same (or similar name) to myself... from several different countries. I've got a cafe business in the Australia, a house in the Cayman's and a child in a christian preschool in America apparently. Completely unsolicited, I am being handed personal information of other people.

All these people are quite lucky I'm not the sort of person to do anything malicious with this info (although the property in the Cayman's looks nice from Google Maps )... indeed, I generally email back informing them they have the wrong contact details, but companies really need to start doing a much better job of not leaking personal private personal information!

They can still send the notification for a fake update (assuming you're using an old < 3.3.4 version of Electrum) as that is not dependent on the hardware wallet functionality... but they cannot automatically create and broadcast a transaction that steals your coins and/or seed as per the "standard" wallet attack... as your wallet file has no seed, and cannot sign transactions without it being confirmed on the hardware wallet device.

That seems like it could be an automated translation choosing the "wrong" word... moratorium, while a fairly common word, is not being used in the correct context here. A moratorium is more like an agreement to halt doing something for a specified time (ie. a moratorium on oil drilling, a moratorium on whale hunting etc), as opposed to preventing someone from entering a place or accessing a system.

It's instances like this, that lead to me investigating if the user is using "text spin"... but then I see their post history is just 10 pages of altcoin campaign posts, most linked to a now "moratoriumed" medium account :


One can only imagine what policy they violated to get their account investigated/banned on Medium

Wallets don't magically change to "watch only"... I would guess you have accidentally opened the wrong wallet file.

Do as suggested and check "File -> Open" and see what wallet files appear.


You can't spend from a "watching only" wallet. It doesn't have the private keys necessary to sign transactions.


PIN? Do you mean wallet password?


Yes, it's normal... as noted, Electrum seeds are not compatible with other wallets.

So, check "File -> Open" and see what other wallet files are there, you actual wallet file is likely to be listed there... alternatively, just create a new copy of your wallet by using "File -> New/Restore -> Standard Wallet -> I already have a seed" and then put in your 12 word seed mnemonic.

It should restore a complete copy of your wallet, but will include the private keys... it should say "[standard]" at the top instead of "[watching-only]"... and you'll be able to spend coins again

For the record, I went back through my records and found an old Cryptopia deposit address that I sent coins to a few years ago.

My deposit address is also included in the wallet shown above on walletexplorer: https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/000008035a3386c1

So, I'd say that your address (13tJC2oeXWFmA9fKcjHvQJP664auqBGQJE) was almost certainly a Cryptopia deposit address. Hope that helps.

What arguments are you using to start up bitcoind/Bitcoin Core? What options do you have set in your bitcoin.conf?

What are people using for building up channel capacity? Do you just send yourself sats from one wallet to another... or do you use "Loop In/Out" etc?

What's stopping you from just looking up the imported addresses on a blockexplorer (manually or programatically using an API) and finding the block height where they were "funded"?

Probably a poor choice of words from coinableS, but I would agree that while there are "standards" like BIP32, BIP44, BIP39... the implementation has been a bit haphazard...

I still think we're in a better position with HD wallets than the old "random collection of random keys" system tho

NOTE: make copies of these files before you attempt any sort of import or "wallet dump". Only work on copies of the files!

The sad fact is that there is no "One Size Fits All" solution for extracting keys from all these various files/wallets... You'll need to deal with each one individually based on the file type that you have and the cryptocurrency involved.


- "exodus.wallet" is most likely some export/backup of Exodus, you'd need to inspect the contents of the folder to see what is in there. Possibly import into Exodus wallet directly (https://www.exodus.io/download/) or you will find a list of private keys etc.



- "VeriCoin" / "Verium" wallet here: https://vericoin.info/



- "wallets" and "wallets1": You'd need to look at what is in the folders, could be almost anything




- "bitcoin-wallet-keys-xxxxxx", "darkcoin-wallet-keys-xxxxxx" and "litecoin-wallet-keys-xxxxx" are possibly just text files. Try and open these in a text editor and view the contents. You will then need the appropriate wallets to import the keys. Note that DarkCoin is now "Dash".



- "default_wallet" is likely an Electrum wallet file. Try opening it with the latest version of Electrum: https://electrum.org/#download



- "ethereum-wallet.json" is possibly a MyEtherWallet keystore json file... you can open in a text editor to check, but the keys will likely be encrypted. You should be able to import the .json using MEW or MyCrypto etc.



- all the "*.dat" files look like someone has just renamed "wallet.dat" files... there are ways to see what the coins are by simply opening in a text editor and searching for "name", this should hopefully show you the "Addresses" that are in the wallet.dat. The format of the address should give a hint as to what they might be. ie "1Lfsdf43t...." Bitcoin, "Dfg8gjksdg...." DOGE, "L32hsjkd..." Litecoin etc etc

Here is an example of a Litecoin wallet, searching for the word: name


You can see the addresses starting with "L......."



- "XDN" seems to be a worthless cryptocurrency called "DigitalNote": https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/digitalnote/



- ".rar" files, just try and open with 7zip or WinRAR and see if they contain anything useful. If the ".rar" files have passwords, you'd need to bruteforce the password using the myriad of rar password crackers available (check Google "Rar password cracker")

Yes, and that place would be in "mempool.dat" along with all the other unconfirmed transactions received from other nodes etc... what I'm saying is that zapwallettxes is meant for clearing unconfirmed transactions from your wallet.dat file...

Why would a transaction from Armory, sent to the node through RPC for relay to the network and of no relationship to the node's wallet, be stored in the node's wallet.dat and require zapwallettxes to remove it?

If by "personal pharaprase", you're talking about the "12 word" seed mnemonic that Electrum provides you... then the short answer is NO, you cannot "delete it" to stop someone with the "12 words" accessing it.

The long answer is that because Electrum is a "Hierarchical Deterministic" (aka HD) wallet, if another person has those 12 words, then they have everything they need to construct a "perfect clone" of your wallet. This means they will be able to see every transaction you have sent/received with that wallet and can even steal any coins that are currently in that wallet.

If you think that someone else has access to your "12 words", you need to create a completely new wallet with a new seed mnemonic (aka 12 words) and send all your coins to the new wallet ASAP!! Keep the new "12 words" safe and secure... never store it digitally, and never let anyone else gain access to it!

The channel to ACINQ finally got opened and I was able to move some sats around... so, hopefully, I should be able to receive some

I'm not going to get into the same conversations we've already had for all the other wallets and coins... I'm not going to tell you that 100% this wallet is safe, or 100% you should do X...

Your options are:

1. Do nothing
2. Leave coins on ElectrumSV/ElectrumG
3. Using NanoS+ElectrumSV/Ledger Live+ElectrumG
4. Move coins to exchange.
5. Some combination of the above.

Do whatever you want, personally I'd pick #3, unless you're just going to dump in which case send them to an exchange and sell them.

Also, you'd be an idiot not to verify the downloads if they provide the ability to do so with PGP signatures/checksums etc... it takes a couple of minutes and could be the difference between downloading the correct software or downloading malware and losing $$$.

- Put Electrum seed mnemonic into Electrum SV -> Get Bitcoin SV (do whatever you want with it, You could try using it with Nano S, but I'm fairly sure that Ledger don't support it natively within Ledger Live, you need to use Electrum SV+Nano S)

- Put Electrum seed mnemonic into ElectrumG -> Get Bitcoin Gold (again, do whatever you want with it, BTG is supported natively in Ledger Live, so you can just use that if you want to store your BTG with the Nano S)


I wouldn't hold them where they are, as you're possibly compromising the security of the coins by putting the seed mnemonic into various wallet applications... ElectrumSV and ElectrumG have not been reported as "scams" or malicious as far as I'm aware, but if you have a significant amount of value stored in them, you're better off moving the coins relatively quickly.

Again, you can't use BSV natively in Ledger Live, so you'd need to create a new wallet in ElectrumSV, "Use a hardware device" etc as per here: https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012270054-Bitcoin-SV-BSV-

Apparently it did indeed go through... via OpenNode -> ACINQ -> some random node


I had to close Zap and then re-open and I was able to drill down into the transaction details... Zap wallet has some issues... I may need to investigate migrating to a different "front-end" for lnd if there is one, or maybe a different implementation altogether

You probably don't need to remove the WiFi card, as you should actually be able to just disable the networking within Linux OS to make it impossible for it to even go online. This is why "Tails OS" is so popular and useful for this, as it has the "No Network" option built in to the boot menu.

It should be possible to achieve something similar with other Distros... what Linux distro were you going to use?

Yes.

Download ElectrumSV... restore wallet using old BTC Electrum seed. Pick the appropriate script type (most likely "legacy") and Bitcoin SV should just automagically display the available coins which you'll be free to do whatever with.

Same with Bitcoin Gold... download ElectrumG (https://bitcoingold.org/electrumg/) and restore using your old BTC Electrum seed.

As your BTC has already been moved to other wallets, you will not have to worry about replay attacks etc.

I'll give them points for originality at least:


That's some decent ASCII art right there