I've been reading up on the relationship between private keys and public keys (as well as hashing), watched a few videos, but I am still a bit confused.
I don't have a programming background and trying to understand it in a way so that I am able to explain it to an "everyday person".
What I found is that before a message is "encrypted" with a "public key" that key FIRST must be shared with the receiver.
How is that the public key being shared?
Thanks for your help, Arthur
Yes, somebody encrypting a message uses your public key, so without your key he cannot encrypt... You need your private key to decrypt the message. You messed up the fact that the pubkey must be sent to the receiver tough... The sender needs the public key to encrypt the data, the receiver needs the private key to decrypt. The receiver generates a private/public keypair, keeps the private key private and distributes the public key. As for how to share the public key => assuming your talking about pgp: key servers like this one usually do the trick: https://pgp.mit.edu/ |
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I have a solution for you and that's electroneum coin,you can mine on your phone using its cloud based miner  You can mine on multiple phone too and so far so good That's one of the fake miners i was talking about... "Cloud based mining on your phone" = "receiving coins for running a non-mining app". People should really stop referring to those apps as mining software since it confuses newbies... |
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I don't know if you'll get a lot of response since both links go to the dutch subforum... That being said, i do speak dutch, so i'm one of the few people that'll be able to comment  I've read the two threads you've mentioned, but i could not find actual proof of a scam either.... The OP of the first post did say he was scammed, but i didn't even see the actual details of the scam, just the correspondence between the potential scammer and the potential victim (the initial correspondence, pre-scam, that is). No details of the scam, txid's, screenshots,... I must say that i've seen this Quadspoker dude posting the same thing in several subforums, and i had a bad gut feeling about his setup to begin with... He makes it seem like he has a big company (he said something in the lines of: "either me or one of my employees will daytrade" at one time), but the whole post reeks of amateurism... No address, spelling mistakes,... I think if i saw the same post in one of the english parts of the forum, i'd immediately scream: "95% certainly a scam", it's just because we don't see many of these types of scam attempts in the dutch subforum no big red flags went up in my head, just a bad gut feeling... That being said, i think the two threads you posted are inssuficient proof to open a scam accusation... I believe the OP when he says he's been scammed, however, without something tangible there's not much that can be done. |
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This is another mysterious disappearance of user coins from blockchain wallet, and I doubt that the cause will be revealed any time soon. This service is have bad history of very strange hacks, and by reading how careful OP was with this site, I could agree that this is some exploit on blockchain.com. It would be interesting to see what will support say, but I doubt they will say anything which can cause them any damage, and at the end they will say it was user error. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2488493.0Well... In my previous job I had to handle helpdesk calls one day a week in an environment with educated, but non-it personel (it was a rotating shift in which every IT team member was responsible for first line support one day a week). I've heared hundreds of people falsely claim to have done/not have done stuff, even when i confronted them with evidence. My point is, there is no way to prove the OP didn't mess up... And there is no shame in this either... I have allmost fallen for a phising scam in the not so distant past, i've installed infected files on my "sandbox" pc unwillingly, i've even fallen for a ponzi a long, long time ago. Everybody makes mistakes, sometimes even without realising you made a mistake. Now let me be clear, i'm not inplying the OP made a mistake and fell for a phising attack or got his system compromised, i'm just saying that i don't think anybody (including me) should be taken at face value when saying they 100% certainly didn't make a certain mistake. I really don't like web wallets, but i would never go as far as implying it was blockchain's fault without seeing any real evidence. In my opinion, the odds of OP's system being compromised, or the OP being victim of a phising or a social engineering attack still seem more likely than blockchain being exploited... It's all about odds tough, there's no way to know for sure. |
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it would work like shit for btc.
so it would need to be for an alt coin
which means you should have posted in alt coin section not here.
edit I asked for mods to move to alt coins.
Nah, not even for altcoins... You can only fake "mine" with a cellphone, some altcoins have released apps in the past that were incorrectly called miners. As long as you ran these apps, the creators would send altcoins to your wallet, but you weren't actually mining with your phone. @OP: if you want to learn about mining, you can mine monero with a decent cpu (altough you'll never break even...), you can mine some altcoins with your GPU (very hard to break even) or you can buy a cheap ASIC. If it's really only learning, try mining on the testnet. That way you can solo mine and actually learn the basics. Testnet coins are worthless tough! Mining =/= free money printing. No matter which piece of hardware you use to create hashes, you'll still have to make a lot of calculations to figure out if you can actually break even/make some profit. |
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You realise you're posting on bitcointalk, right  . I visited your site, and saw nothing even remotely connected to crypto currencies... If you do accept crypto as a payment method, it might be a good idear to clearly mention it in your post, if not this forum is not the right place to advertise your business |
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If it's a lot of money you're talking about, just do a CPFP... It's quite easy to perform, not that expensive (fee wise) and you don't need the help of anybody else.
If it's only a small amount of money, just keep rebroadcasting the transaction and hope the sender doesn't succeed in doublespending the unspent outputs used in the tx funding your address sooner or later.
Can you tell me if it's and opt-in rbf tx? In that case i'd say to do a CPFP instead of rebroadcasting and waiting it out
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I am Negotiation from bitcointalk.org forum. Today is July, 17th 2019 and I want to secure my bitcointalk account with this message. bitcointalk.org forum Date of Registered: June 26, 2019, 08:19:35 AM
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Please verify me. Quoted, and verified succesfully using electrum |
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So if there are three private keys controlled by my xprv. And when I spend all my unspent outputs (all my BTC on HW wallet) in one transaction, it actually using three private keys for signing? So it's actually three transactions?
No, it's one transaction spending 3 unspent outputs that were funding 3 addresses. Your wallet will use 3 private keys to sign this one transaction. I'll try to give an example... This is the last transaction i made (publicly): https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/aa4e570adc48116013f0b562bc9fd8a1d45a0608799ab9f82881c6fd897fe772Click on "Show scripts & coinbase" You'll see i'm spending 3 unspent outputs (in this case, funding the same address), you'll also see 3 ScriptSig scripts... If i was spending unspent outputs funding different addresses, those signatures at the bottom would be made with 3 private keys instead of one, that's all... Actually, here's the decoded raw transaction: bitcoin@node:~$ bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction aa4e570adc48116013f0b562bc9fd8a1d45a0608799ab9f82881c6fd897fe772
0200000003700a578a5a69f1a4932e127723907eb80e0ca25f1dfb0cbce2fbbacaf0ef2a2c000000008b4830450221008c85fe94c4fcc32fc948733db3de1ba597f7c7c7cebfa21582d96292f57d4d2e02207a864ec1e305eede42b72d3a80e0989c424555714e8faa0e6766e9be6a00b28b014104ed1df4aaa790f8118646976365a33de02dcbb4c78d92edf1271a85abe53c15a316d08c29b1069a52ae98e015a29aa52cbeb41c1fb77bf091d809d286adff8a73fdffffff83d5cb57413b6145840233d5cfe823868f3d0fca98abdad43a92fa4ca119b977a50100008b483045022100f3c25ac424dfff0fa1fae176450f7b666200657468de1e0eae20e3c003d5db050220782ccdb95f53acf7dede4d8456272e1d10ed0d8d7da02d08c1ed82b56aedf052014104ed1df4aaa790f8118646976365a33de02dcbb4c78d92edf1271a85abe53c15a316d08c29b1069a52ae98e015a29aa52cbeb41c1fb77bf091d809d286adff8a73fdffffff37c82cec0a27b399c3737c6c61f0f934deb33ff3cfb6ef1016e62d434a6204a3000000008b483045022100a6cadc449c1ed0a683971f6e7b74d278014b19a424f2c30de830afd4ba586a5d02207830a1fddb67bf0f2bdc1c455313d9296c6b774d4010ef98b216931451a58bfb014104ed1df4aaa790f8118646976365a33de02dcbb4c78d92edf1271a85abe53c15a316d08c29b1069a52ae98e015a29aa52cbeb41c1fb77bf091d809d286adff8a73fdffffff02f04902000000000017a9146455b6f90b32cd4b824f1ca0cb1f6ca85c41e28c87bfad1300000000001976a914e432ffb6ef0bde696af29ca13dd37c0824a4082388ac4dd40800
bitcoin@node:~$ bitcoin-cli decoderawtransaction 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Seems like you got a little confused there... I'll leave the technical aspects behind and try to explain it as simple as i can There's some oversimplifacation, but the basic idear behind the rest of this post is correct. When you initialised your ledger, you were shown a seed phrase. This seed phrase is used to create an xprv (a master private key) From this xprv, your ledger can derive other private keys. Each private key can be used to calculate a public key, the hash of the public key is your address (valid for P2PKH) Each private key can be used to sign transactions spending unspent outputs funding one address. If one address is funded with multiple unspent outputs, the same private key will be used when you spend those unspent outputs. So, in fact, each address has a unique private key (or, more correct, each private key results in 1 single address). If you spend 3 unspent outputs funding 3 addresses controlled by the same HW wallet, 3 private keys derived from the same xprv will be used to sign the final transaction. |
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my community, my this, dude your "country" is not exactly yours it belongs to everyone that lives within that border.
Plagiarise much? Or did you, by accident, forgot to quote legendster? Archived for reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20190717054043/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5164659.newAs for the quote, i respect legendster's opinion, but i do not share it. It is my country. I'm proud of being a citizen. My family has lived in this country for many generations, many of the older men in my country have done their army duty and suffered and fought for the country i live in during the world wars, I vote, I have been paying taxes from the day i graduated, I have followed the rules and regulations of my country at every step in my life, I own property, I have a big network of friends and family in the same country... It is my country... It's not because you cross my country's border that it becomes your country... If you immigrate to my country, and you want to be able to say it's your country to, it'll take some effort from your side: you'll have to respect our rules and traditions (and to a certain degree follow them... There is free choice of religion, so i don't mind if you're atheist, christian, muslim, jew,... but you still have to follow the social rules my ancestors fought and died for), you'll have to find a job and contribute, you can't commit any crimes, you'll have to build a social network, you'll have to learn our language so you can communicate, you'll have to become a citizen (and no longer be a citizen of your previous country).... Only when you pass these hurdles will you be able to claim my country is also your country... Merely crossing the border is not sufficient. (my opinion tough). On a smaller scale it's the same: i own propery in my country... It's not because somebody climbs my fence that it becomes HIS property... It's mine: i payed for it, I cleaned it, I built a house on it where my family lives. |
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Well... Like others have already said, your system is compromised... Either reinstall your os, or at least continue digging untill you find the problem. Here's a starting point: https://upcloud.com/community/tutorials/scan-ubuntu-server-malware/ (in your previous post you mentioned you ran ubuntu). You do have to realise exentions *can* be enabled, even in incognito mode... As a matter of fact, if you only installed packages from the official repo's and you're 100% sure you didn't fall for a (phising) scam, i'd say browser extensions are the most probably cause of infection, especially sine you indicate the funds were lost after you opened your wallet using your browser (what are the odds somebody having physical access to the seed decides to rob you at the exact moment you're using your browser). |
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With so many merits earned it'd seem like you're a stand-out member of this community bruh. But this viewpoint just makes me think you are somewhat of a bigot that does not see the story behind the color of the skin.
My country, my community, my this, dude your "country" is not exactly yours it belongs to everyone that lives within that border.
If you are advocating to kick off an immigrant from your country then any native committing the same mistake should also be exiled from your country, otherwise, it'd be hypocritical.
Imagine a Jainist man commits a heinous crime and then his religion gets flashed, immediately everyone from the same religion within that area would become a target of hate just because they have the same faith. This is the reason a responsible media house should never highlight religion when describing a criminal. For you to think otherwise would be buffoonery.
I don't consider myself to be a bigot or a racist, but it's not really up to me to "label" myself... I'm not advocating to kick out all immigrants, i think we have the moral duty to help honest people that are in danger in their own country and i'm certainly willing to give them a safe harbour (payed, in part, with my tax money). i don't mind the fact that people that join our culture, learn our language, put their children to school and try to find work stay in our country forever, and in fact become real native people (i realise most immigrants will have a harder time finding a job tough, the job market isn't really welcoming them). I'm don't even have a problem if people don't learn our language or try to find a job as long as they only stay for as long as they're in real danger in their home country and go back as soon as it's safe out there, as long as they don't commit any crimes over here. Does it make me a bigot if i think that immigrants that come to our country should adapt to the culture and rules of the country i was born in, instead of the other way around? If one day there was a war in the country i was born in, and i was forced to flee to a host country, i don't think i'd insist on obeying the rules and customs of my native country instead of the one hosting me... If i had to flee to a muslim country, my wife probably would have to cover her hair and i'd probably never be able to drink alcohol again... Who cares, we'd be safe... I see documentaries of camps crammed with hundreds of innocent families that don't get assylum in europe because countries claim they have no more space... Why don't we kick out immigrants that have commited crimes and instead let those innocent families in in their place? Don't you think an innocent family deserves a better spot than a felon? As for your remark about natives being exiled: i'd love to see this... "murder or rape => exile", no matter the color of your skin... The problem is: which country will accept exiled rapists? I think Australia has stopped accepting the scum of the world since a very long time Maybe we can find an inhabitated island somewhere else where we can dump them all... But kidding aside, an immigrant is still a citizen of an other country, it's easy to kick them out if they commit a henous crime like murder or rape, a citizen of our country without a double nationality can't be kicked out because nobody will take them in... Im my opinion, it's just that simple. I'd like to make an analogy to a family... If I had a guest in my home and he/she tried to molest my daughter, i'd call the police and have him arrested AND removed from my home NEVER to return... Any father who does otherwise is plain wrong (in my opinion). The guest would have to go to trial, be locked up (in our country he'll probably get a slap on the wrist, the judge will probably tell him not to do it again and let him off the hook) and after his "punishment" would have ended he would be banned for life from my family's home, but probably also from the homes of my extended family and friends... Why would a country behave different from a family? You can have guests, guests can become family... But if they misbehave they must leave to make place for other guests. I don't see what my merits have to do with this topic... Political beliefs have little to do with being honest, trying to help people or have basic understandings of crypto currencies or the rules and regulations of this forum... |
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In my country, these things happen as well, but popular (state subsidised) news media never seem to report the race of the rapist.
that's exactly my point, why is there mostly reports from sweden and uk, and none for the rest? what makes the uk / sweden different? What is your country? and how do you know those things happen? I'm from one of the countries in western Europe (like France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium,...). You do hear about the identities of the culprits on non state sponsored news media... The problem is that those media have a smaller budget, thus a smaller target audience... Don't get me wrong, a lot of crime is committed by natives to, I just hate the fact that I have to pay when my country imports criminals.. You can't send native criminals back to their county of origin, I don't get why we don't send non-native scum back to where they came from. People that integrate in my community, get a job and stay out of trouble are welcome to stay |
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In my country, these things happen as well, but popular (state subsidised) news media never seem to report the race of the rapist. I guess they think it's politically incorrect to report whether or not the person committing a certain crime is an immigrant.
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Does anyone with the worng electrum version tryied to run malwarebytes? did it found the malware?
thanks
I have never installed a fake version, so i don't know wether malwarebytes will pick it up, however they are well aware of the problem and even know the hashes of some of the fake binaries... So i'd be supprised if they didn't scan for them... https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2019/04/electrum-bitcoin-wallets-under-siege/This being said, since electrum is completely open sourse, a malicious person can spin up hundreds of variants in no-time, so i wouln't rely on malwarebytes completely |
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I guess i'll never ever trust facebook... Not with my data, not with my money... However, i might use libra depending on the technical data in it's whitepaper. It's perfectly possible libra will be safe even if facebook gets hacked... But untill i've actually browsed trough their whitepaper, i can't say for sure
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But if it is a requirement then you cannot do much.
Sure there is... Don't join the campaign. Here's an analog example: In my country it's illegal to own unlicensed firearms. In other words: the rule of my country tells me that if i own an unlicensed gun, i'll be banned (sent to jail). One day, I try to join a biker gang out of my own free will, but they will only make me a full member if i own an unlicensed gun, so I buy one. IF the police one day raids my home and finds the gun, do you think the judge will understand my reasoning if i tell him: "The biker gang would not make me a member if i did not own an unlicensed gun", do you think he'll be lenient, or do you think he'll say something like: "nobody forced you to join the gang, so i'll sentence you to 5 years in prison for owning an unlicensed gun". Back to those bounty campaigns: "nobody forced you to join the bounty campaign, so if you break the rules you'll probably end up being banned for shitposting". I'd rather see bounty campaigns leave the forum, i don't think they add much to the conversation, it's very seldom to see one of those hunters say anything meaningfull at all. |
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You're not searching for ways to recover stolen bitcoins, you have encrypted your wallet and lost your passphrase... Those are two totally different things:
Stolen bitcoins: the bitcoin ledger is immutable, as soon as a transaction is included in a block, and there were a couple more blocks found on top of the block containing the thief's transaction, there is no way to recover your funds (even unconfirmed transactions are really, really, really hard to "cancel", and even specialists can't guarantee they can "cancel" a transaction).
You can, however, follow the unspent outputs untill they fund an exchange address (or some other physical business). If you can prove the person depositing the funds to the exchange is the thief, you can go to your local law enforcement and hope they want to help you... If the thief uses a mixer or no-KYC exchanges, you're out of luck.
Lost password: you you know part of your password, or have a decent idear what your password might have been OR if you picked a weak password, there are tools available to brute force the password to your wallet... Altough, the harder your password is and the less you know about your password, the lower the odds somebody can brute force your passphrase.
DO be carefull, don't send your wallet to untrusted people...
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The pop-up mentioned Electrum 4.0 (I think). I am sure I closed this pop up. I used the electrum program menu to go to the Electrum site. Downloaded the Windows installer version.
I installed the Electrum 3.6.6 in the same directory as Electrum 3.0.3 was installed. Could it be the original wallet has been deleted in this action?
The popup was the phising attempt (there is no version 4), but you did have the correct reaction by visiting the original electrum.org site and downloading the newest version (i'd still urge you to look in your browser history and do double check if you really visited electrum.org AND check the signature of the file you downloaded... better safe than sorry ) As for the installation: AFAIK, old wallets shouldn't be removed by upgrading your wallet... However, wallets can be saved anywhere on your system, the path i gave in an earlyer post was just the default path offered by electrum when generating new wallets... I'd still recommand checking out the config file and using your OS's search functionality. If you think the wallet might have been deleted, and you had a lot of funds, it might be a good idear to turn off your computer and clone your disk so you have a backup copy, then use a file recovery tool and hope the wallet can be recovered. |
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