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2061  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin Core Inbound connection on: April 13, 2022, 05:30:26 AM
I see got around 15000 reachable bitcoin node. https://bitnodes.io
How to check if my node is 1 of the 15000?
Use the "Check Node" button under 'Join the network'.
Your IP Address should be automatically detected but if not, manually type it along with the correct port.
2062  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Is there a way to import coins into a Bitcoin Core wallet? on: April 13, 2022, 04:20:20 AM
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Is there an RPC to add a specific transaction to a wallet even if its outputs do not belong to the wallet ?
AFAIK, there's none.

You can use the command suggested by hosseinimr93 to import a private key or importaddress to include its associated transaction(s) to the wallet.
If you're planning to use this method and there's more than one address to be imported,
I'd suggest to use "false" 'rescan' flag for the first few (so it wont scan right away) and "true" on the last.
2063  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Is there a way to import coins into a Bitcoin Core wallet? on: April 12, 2022, 06:17:33 AM
Bitcoin Core has RPC commands: createrawtransaction to manually create a transaction and converttopsbt to convert it into PSBT.
Neither require the UTXO set nor blockchain to use.

Reference: developer.bitcoin.org/reference/rpc/index.html
2064  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Why the block height do not correspod to bitcoin core database size? on: April 12, 2022, 04:39:58 AM
Blocks can be lower than the "maximum" block size (currently 4 Weight Units).
To be more precise, maximum block size was 1MB before SegWit activation (August 2017) and now it's 4 million weight units (some people also refer it as 4 kWu).
Thanks, I previously edited it from "4 vMB" because I decided to use "Weight Unit" instead but forgot to add "million".
2065  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Why the block height do not correspod to bitcoin core database size? on: April 11, 2022, 09:02:42 AM
Blocks can be lower than the "maximum" block size (currently 4 million Weight Units).
Most of the first thousands blocks are empty and the rest (until Bitcoin became famous) only have a small number of transactions included,
so their size are only a few kB.

For example: Block #1000 doesn't have any transaction in it aside from the coinbase txn; its size is only 0.216 kB.
2066  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: 2FA confusion on: April 10, 2022, 03:20:56 AM
There is one thing I'm trying to catch here, isn't having access to recovery seed neutralised the power of 2FA Authentication?
Is this about Electrum's 2FA?
Because I can't find any topic about 2fa wallet with a seed phrase in your post history and you didn't tell from which 2fa wallet is this about.

If it's Electrum: the 2fa is there to protect the "wallet file", which is in a PC/Phone, which is an online vulnerable environment.
The wallet file doesn't contain the seed phrase or your second master prvKey so it's useless on its own without the 2fa authenticator if accessed by hackers with the correct password.
In this case, a non-2fa electrum wallet would have been hacked already.

The seed on the other hand is air-gap, in a safe offline environment, so the only way to compromise it is to have physical access to it.
2067  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Invalid recovery phrase on: April 10, 2022, 02:58:23 AM
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His previous response "found 4 addresses" doesn't make sense as a reply to my previous post so I guess that the seed phrase doesn't have issue;
but he never answered that last question yet.
as far as i can remember. It's only 1 address, the first address.
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Again, you have answered neither of the users' questions because saying "you found 1 or 4 address" doesn't make sense unless you specify how you found them.

But anyways, there is a way to test and try if your seed phrase is invalid for having a wrong character and to find if it has a balance:
You can import it to Electrum by toggling "BIP39 seed" in the option during the restore process.
It will show "BIP39 Checksum: ok" below the seed if it's valid (with very small error margin).

Then in the next window, clicking "Detect Existing Accounts" will prompt Electrum to check the mostly used derivation paths if any of them are funded,
it will display a list if there's more than one funded 'account'.

But take note that it's only for Bitcoin not Altcoins.
2068  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum wallet on corrupted SSD. Seed restore not working. on: April 10, 2022, 02:13:43 AM
Let's stick with a presumed checksum of "0000". Of all the 2048 words in the BIP39 word list, 128 of them end in "0000". So 1 out of 16. Now, randomly discard half of the word list. You'll now have, on average, 64 words out of the available 1024 which end in "0000", so still a 1 in 16 chance. Do it again. 32 out of 512. Then 16 out of 256. Down to 1 out of 16.
This part looks convincing, I'll settle with "average" then.
But I can't help but think that there should be a factor to consider when discarding half of the list so I'll do my research on "chance" in general.

Thank you.
@notphus Pardon for the going quite off-topic; that was just about the small chance of your seed phrase's "good checksum" to be false-positive.
2069  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum wallet on corrupted SSD. Seed restore not working. on: April 09, 2022, 03:29:57 PM
I'm thinking that while it's true that the checksum last 4-bit "0000" has 1/16 chance, some of those valid mnemonic phrase's last word can't be "gravity" because there other words that end with "0000".
Right. There would be a 1/16 chance that gravity could be the last word. There would also be a bunch of other words which would work as the last word.
Okay, and all of those count in the 1/16 chance because it's only based from the last 4-bit, including the non "gravity" ones.
So actual chance to get a valid seed phrase when "scrambling the 12 words" will be a lot lower than 1/16 since most of those "other words" aren't in any of the 12 words to be scrambled.
2070  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum wallet on corrupted SSD. Seed restore not working. on: April 09, 2022, 02:55:17 PM
Consider the scenario in reverse: Rather than computing the correct checksum for the entropy we have, lets fix the checksum and vary the entropy until we find an entropy which matches that checksum. Let's say one of his words is "gravity". We use that as the last word, which gives the checksum "0000". We now vary the order of the other 11 words, giving 11! = 39,916,800 possible combinations. 1/16 of those on average would match the checksum "0000".
Well, the tricky part is while the checksum is only the last 4-bits, the last word is influenced by the last few words because each word is equals to 11-bits.
I'm thinking that while it's true that the checksum last 4-bit "0000" has 1/16 chance, some of those valid mnemonic phrase's last word can't be "gravity" because there other words that end with "0000".
That's why in that scenario where the words are scrambled, we should be computing the chance based from the number of words or at least it can't be 1/16 chance.

Note: 816 - 'gravity' is actually "01100110000".
2071  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum wallet on corrupted SSD. Seed restore not working. on: April 09, 2022, 10:37:18 AM
If you select the last word from the 2048 words, there's 1/16 chance on average that the seed phrase passes the checksum.
There wouldn't be any difference, if you select 12 words from the 2048 words and then select each of the words from those 12 words.
Yes, always 1/16 if we're talking about the 4-bit checksum and the entropy, it's simply because a random 4-bit can only have 2^4 combinations.

But:
If you enter the 12 words in the random order, on average there's 1/16 chance that it passes checksum.
In which case, we can't use the entropy to compute the chance.
And I doubt that the chance is constant for every 12 word seed phrase since the each 12-word combinations can have lower or higher chances than the others.
So it's hard to give an accurate rate, but I doubt it's still as high as 1/16 in this case.

BTW, we're not helping in solving OP's case  Cheesy
2072  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Invalid recovery phrase on: April 09, 2022, 09:52:12 AM
Question is, how many Bitcoin accounts did you have in your Ledger Live?
Because aside from the first, every consecutive accounts can't be recovered by using the default derivation path (it needs tweaking).
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Yes, you wont be able to create another account if the previous one is unfunded.
support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404389482641-Add-your-accounts?

The question is for us to find out if he should be restoring the seed with derivation path account level higher than 0,
the "4 addresses" may be from his first or next accounts.

His previous response "found 4 addresses" doesn't make sense as a reply to my previous post so I guess that the seed phrase doesn't have issue;
but he never answered that last question yet.
2073  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum wallet on corrupted SSD. Seed restore not working. on: April 09, 2022, 09:02:17 AM
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If you enter the 12 words in the random order, on average there's 1/16 chance that it passes checksum.
True but isn't that 'average' only for situations when all the words are candidates for the checksum?
If the only candidates are his 12 words, then the odds should be way lower than that (depending on the words), or wont even form another combination with a valid checksum.
2074  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum wallet on corrupted SSD. Seed restore not working. on: April 09, 2022, 04:35:02 AM
-snip-  After clicking "detect existing accounts" I get no existing accounts found.
That's because it's not designed to look for every possible "accounts" but only pre-specified derivation paths listed in:
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/electrum/bip39_wallet_formats.json

Since the seed phrase is obviously not made by Electrum (it's a BIP39 seed),
it's most likely from another wallet with unique derivation path that aren't listed in the '.json' file above; or just a random seed you've taken note of.

Are you certain you wrote down the words correctly? Maybe there are typos or wrong word order.
He mentioned that the "checksum passes" so the words must be in the correct order.
2075  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Has anyone put unmined blocks on the blockchain network? on: April 09, 2022, 04:02:49 AM
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Here are the miners: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.0 | Go to "pool" sub-board.
how to talk direct to you ?
the forum should have a chatbox and a chat feature
I want more information about this and i use this article for a different reason
I prefer "for information" conversations public so other users can use it for reference and also to minimize duplicated topics.

do you mean blocks can be mined from 1 miner?
but I just have some blocks waited when I had time and i want to try
No, but blocks aren't something you can pre-generate then put in the blockchain days later.

It's called "block" + "chain" for a reason,
because the next block should be built on top of the latest block since the previous block's "hashPrevBlock" should be included to the next block's block header (so on, so forth); that connects the chain.
If you somehow managed to build a valid block now, but haven't broadcast it right away, then it wont be valid after its height was occupied by another miner's block.
Not to mention, the validity of the transactions in it.

BTW, you should specify the steps that you've done to build a block.
2076  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Has anyone put unmined blocks on the blockchain network? on: April 08, 2022, 05:44:51 AM
i have some unmined block and need someone help to mine it, put it on blockchain network,
I have read and researched at learmeabitcoin.com but maybe I still need someone who can help
Then you would have to pay miners with amount greater than the reward that they usually receive from their mined blocks.
You're basically asking a miner to mine "your block" which is technically theirs since they will do the proof-of-work.

Here are the miners: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.0 | Go to "pool" sub-board.
2077  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Multi-signature wallet (not able to send btc) on: April 08, 2022, 03:33:39 AM
Abdussamad's reply will work if you've selected "keystore 1" or "keystore 2".
If it's 'keystore 1', there's a shortcut to get the master private key, it is by using the 'console' tab (View->Show Console),
then type: getmasterprivate()

It can get ugly if you somehow selected "keystore 3" which is owned by TrustedCoin.
In which case, requires manually contacting them to co-sign your transaction.
2078  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Invalid recovery phrase on: April 08, 2022, 03:09:18 AM
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actually found 4 addresses Cry Cry
Okay, so there's no missing character in the seed phrase since you already found 4 addresses.
So, the actual issue is finding the correct "derivation path" of the funded address(es).

Because there can't be a typo if you can properly restore the seed phrase with BIP39-supported wallets (it has a checksum).

I used ledger nano wallet and now its broken
Question is, how many Bitcoin accounts did you have in your Ledger Live?
Because aside from the first, every consecutive accounts can't be recovered by using the default derivation path (it needs tweaking).
2079  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Easiest and most secure way to cold store bitcoins on: April 07, 2022, 08:30:20 AM
Question: should Electrum program be on the HDD (or SSD) of the computer or on the USB storage ? Does it change something ?

What I want is that when I plug the USB to the offline computer with the OS on it I can find Electrum on it like the last time.
With that, your initial concern persists because in events of a theft, if the USB flash Drive/PC is stolen, then your wallet files will be stolen as well.

If you still want that, Tails has the option to create a "persistent storage" where you can store the wallet file.
It's basically an encrypted storage in the USB flash drive which is exempted from Tail's "amnesia". It's protected by your admin password.
My suggestion is at least set a different password (strong ones) for the persistent storage and your Electrum.
2080  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How to upgrade wallet for taproot support in versions <23? on: April 07, 2022, 05:21:49 AM
I can't find any PR that added any "taproot upgrade" wallet command or GUI feature, it's only added by default for newly created descriptor wallets.

For now, you can manually import a new tr() parent descriptor for it to be able to create Bech32m addresses.
The steps are similar to this post: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/108006/how-to-make-a-taproot-transaction-with-bitcoin-cli
But instead of xpub, use xprv.

That version is still in development so it's still open for updates.
Try to open a new issue - feature request: something like "add an option to create taproot descriptor for old descriptor wallets".
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