Miners won't necessarily "care" about any new transaction being made... Especially when there are more transactions in their mempool than can actually "fit" in a block. Generally, they'll only try and include it if the money to made from including it, is worth more than the "cost" of including it.

This is why you often need to pay $$$ in fees if you want "next block"... it makes your transaction more "attractive" to the miners and gives them an incentive to include it... whereas, if you pay the minimum 1 sat/vbyte... you end up in the big pile at the bottom of the mempool with the other 10,000+ transactions waiting for days

This is the price people pay to have "instant" withdrawal services from exchanges and gambling sites etc... They want to see the transaction appear "instantly", so these services don't batch transactions... and in times of heavy network activity (generally during large price movements), users end up stuck in the middle/end of these large chains of unconfirmed transactions as the sites start pumping out transactions spending unconfirmed change...

It doesn't help that some of them are even more shitty and then "cheap-out" on fees despite charging the user ~0.00050000 BTC for a "withdrawal fee"... only to use a fraction of that to pay for network fees

Your understanding is a little bit "backwards"... you start with a private key... and derive the public key from the private key. Although most wallets these days tend to work with "seeds" and "master" private (xpriv) and "master" public (xpub) keys.


If you import the private keys from one wallet to another, then the wallets will effectively be "clones"... they'll see exactly the same transaction history/balance... and either wallet will be able to spend any coins controlled by those private keys.

That would probably have been the one downside I would have pointed out... it's not the cheapest phone that you could use.


Why not? Apparently Bluewallet is supported, which is mobile only... so I assume it works with OTG... is it because you're using it in "airgap" mode with the microSD card?

The trick is to find what is being reported as the "datadir" within Bitcoin Core... and then use that value with Armory.

Have a look at the following menu option in Bitcoin Core: "Windows -> Information":


Then copy the "Datadir" value to the "Bitcoin Home Dir" setting in Armory... That will guarantee that Armory uses the already downloaded/synced Bitcoin Core data correctly.


NOTE: DO NOT use the "Blocksdir"!!

No, he didn't... he is adamant he still has funds somewhere... so his problem isn't "solved" as such.


There wasn't anything special done...

1. Download and fully sync Bitcoin Core
2. Shutdown Bitcoin Core
3. Swap "new" wallet.dat with "old" wallet.dat
4. Start Bitcoin Core with "rescan" option enabled
5. Wait

Bitcoin Core then rescanned all the block data looking for transactions relating to the "old" wallet.dat... it found 2 transactions, one in... one out... and a final balance of 0 BTC

There was no password hacking required, as the "old" wallet.dat had no password.

OP has been attempting to use data recovery software on the old drive with hopes to find another wallet.dat/wallet file... there is also a possibility they had funds in a completely different wallet, but OP cannot remember what it might have been... it could even have been a "brain wallet" or web-wallet in which case there is a chance that there never was a "local" wallet file to find/recover.

My biggest issue with these charts and the "10000% ROI" claim... is that it is obviously all "backtest" results... (and labelled as such, so credit for that at least!)

The bot and platform were only available from around April this year. So this historical data going back to the beginning of 2019 is obviously not representative of what an actual user would have received if they had invested on day 1 of it actually being available to users.

When I switched to Manticore around 1st May... I was around -0.009 BTC from where I started started on the new platform... which would have meant I started using Manticore with a "bankroll" of ~0.0344 BTC... today, I am at 0.047306 BTC "bankroll"...

So, it's made approximately ~0.0129 BTC since the start of May from a starting balance of 0.0344 BTC... which is about a 37.5% increase over basically 4 months (with a couple of big 30% losses inbetween)... which is obviously nowhere near this mythical 10000% return.


I'm just glad I switched bots...

I don't see anything inherently "wrong" with the idea... like the others have said, it's not really any different to any other phone/device... except that it is quite small.

So, if it matches your requirements, why not?

No... the private keys are derived using the passphrase... so, if the device was already "attacked", any private keys/addresses that had already generated/used, would have been generated using the "unknown" passphrase generated by the malware...

So, resetting the device, restoring from seed and setting up a new/own passphrase means that you would be generating completely different addresses.

It's basically abusing the "plausible deniability" functionality, whereby any passphrase is "valid", but generates a different set of private keys/addresses.

If he bought coins, and then moved them to a different address (ie. moved them off the exchange)... then the exchange is not going to be able to assist. The fulfilled their part of the deal when the coins where sent.

If they didn't move the coins from the exchange, then they might be able to recover access to the account... providing that the exchange is still functioning and they have access to the same email address used to register.

You could try: https://www.walletexplorer.com/ and see if the address is linked to any of the known exchanges... it's a long shot tho.


I'm not sure that is an exchange address...  If you look at the list of transactions here: https://www.walletexplorer.com/address/1DBU8EeoJcTNkfjz6hTTjR1RAH3DEzh9YS

You'll find they all end up sending change back to the same address, like this example: https://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/75dffb286896b9a1b86eb49864a22fb32787ddc5ef2e0ddea43f41f42248793d

That is not generally how exchanges work. So, it seems that this was a "single key" wallet... possibly something like an "imported" Electrum wallet, or perhaps MultiBit?

That's actually the original wording from the seedrecovery docs... AFAIK, that version doesn't offer "word order rearrangement", but is more suited to finding either a missing word (or two) or an incorrect word (or two)...

Obviously, the more mistakes the longer it will take on any given set of hardware... or, to put it another way, you will require more powerful hardware to be able to find more mistakes in a similar timeframe.

When you know the 12 words, just not the order... it's actually a lot easier as the total search space is a lot smaller... and you can kind of "shortcut" the process by discounting a lot of the options because the checksum will be invalid, so you don't need to bother doing any deriving of keys/addresses (which involves "costly" hash calculations etc)

There was another unfortunate user who recently posted in another thread who handily noted down the malware URL in a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/mvSIn9T

You could see if it is still live...

Yeah... I vaguely recall that mine was sent via DHL... and I wasn't home at the time so had to go to the DHL depot with ID to sign for and collect it... Couriers in this country really seem to struggle when delivering to apartment buildings, as most don't have secure delivery storage or "live in" building managers to hold packages for residents

Preach brother!


Or people who don't understand why they can get 20 losses in a row on a 50% chance etc...

I agree, but would appreciate it if you could be a bit more careful when snipping quotes


Exactly... and I will defend your right to say whatever you want... just don't be upset if/when I either disagree with it or "ignore" you.

spy100 wants to run around calling people trolls and "commies", fine... "care factor zero" I just do not like the way people trot out the "freedom of speech" line without realising that it is a two way street. They can say whatever they like, but then, so can everyone else.

Normally, I would say that on Windows, which I think jerry0 is using, if you don't get the "USB device connected/disconnected" sound when connecting or disconnecting the Ledger... and nothing is showing in the device manager... then it is almost guaranteed that the device is not working or powering up properly.

However... I believe the Nano S doesn't actually show up as a device until after you have entered a PIN... which is simply impossible when the screen is not working

Possibly... but being a simple BIP39/Electrum seed would make things a LOT easier


If so, then there is pretty much no way to recover... as far as I know, no-one has ever been able to recover if they've lost use of the email as blockchain.com can't/won't change it...


No more danger than anything you usually do online... there isn't anything you can really do except make sure you're connected to the correct website and you're fairly certain that their are no keyloggers/malware etc on your machine... possibly using a LiveOS on a USB stick with a clean install of Linux might help ensure there is no malware etc...

Not saying suchmoon is either a communist or supports communist ideology... but would the ability to speak in support of communist ideology not be protected by this concept of "freedom of speech" of that you seem quite keen on?

"Freedom of speech" does not equal "you're free to say whatever you like, as long as it aligns with my personal beliefs and opinions"... I believe it is more the famous quote of Evelyn Beatrice Hall:

The fact that you seem hell bent on destroying anything and/or anyone who dares to disagree with you and your beliefs is in no way aligned with the concepts of either democracy nor freedom of speech.

That fork of btcrecover is a great find o_e_l_e_o... thanks for the link. Certainly seems to be a lot more optimised than my homemade btcrecover script hacks!

You only receive the "update" message when you attempt to send a transaction... So, it could get quite expensive and you could end up wasting a bit of BTC in transaction fees trying to find a infected "bad" server (they're not "infected", they're just "bad")