In 2014 I had an account. When I went to the account in 2017, I tried to log in with my email and password. After logging in, I found that I had to verify the phone number, but my phone number was lost and I wanted to login with my bypass email but I could not get my email password lost. I tried a lot but could not. So you also give up hope of getting it back.
There's a big difference between the OP's problem and yours... Eventough you didn't explicitly told us which wallet you were using in 2014, i'd make an educated guess and say it was an online wallet? By using an online wallet, you were not the only one in controll of your private keys (you've never been the one in controll), and you need the online wallet's help when you want to recover your funds... The OP actually used a desktop wallet, he was in controll of his own funds, and if he finds the password, he becomes the one in controll ones again... It's up to him to try to brute force his wallet, he doesn't need external help. The only similarity between your cases is that neither of you is able to spend his/her funds at this point in time... I hope you both are lucky in recovering access to your wallets tough. |
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1) copy your wallet, copy it twice, copy it onto a dedicated usbstick 2) download, install and configure https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecoverIf you have *any* clue as to what password you usually chose, or wich password you *might* have chosen OR if you chose a weak password, the above tool can *potentially* help you in brute-forcing your electrum wallet's password. Good luck! |
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All other posters are correct, if you're not doing something illegal (selling illegal items, evading taxes, money laundring,...) you shouldn't worry about it... New deposit addresses or the use of bitpay (or an other processor) would be more than sufficient...
IF, for some reason, you still want more anonimity, you can always switch to monero (or a similar coin)... I would discourage creating a new token like you suggested, it'll be a lot of work to maintain a token/coin by yourself, and the odds are pretty big the token will become worthless in a very short time... Use an existing coin/token with an established userbase and active dev community in order to protect yourself and your customers and save you from a lot of headache
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this is unlikely to be a bug. that error message is a network error message that the bitcoin network is giving you not the wallet. and it means that one or more of your new transaction outputs that you are trying to create is smaller than dust amount so it is considered non-standard and the nodes you are connecting to are rejecting it.
in your preview window at the bottom of the page inside Outputs you should see the new outputs you are creating. there is an amount in front of each of them. one should be smaller than dust limit which is causing the problem. change that and your TX will go through.
Ok.but the btc address i used is most likely different now. As this website changes my btc wallet address once a week as a security measure..will this be an issue??? I wouldent want to lose any btc sending to a unexisting address. Well, you'll need to double check the deposit address... If it changed, you'll need to change the deposit address in the new transaction aswell... I'd like to add following points to the discussion: - Pursuer gave the correct answer, the problem is dust outputs created by your transaction
- If you can't get it fixed, you can always download a fresh copy of electrum from the official site, and restore your wallet from the seed phrase you should have written down when you created your wallet... The restored wallet won't have any notion of the locally saved transaction, you should be able to spend all those funds again without a hitch from the restored version
- Electrum is an open source application... There is no official support team, altough the editor of electrum (ThomasV) is a nice guy who usually helps you out if you have problems... Altough it seems he isn't as active on the forum as he used to be (at least, that's what my gut feeling is telling me)
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Does anyone here using trezor password manager? Hows it? Do you experience any error/problems? Or do you prefer using different password managers to secure your passwords? What would you recommend? A browser extension or just an app in your desktop.
I've switched from keepass to trezor just last week... I find keepass easyer to use tbh. It allows you to make a tree structure using subfolders, and it keeps your password history. The reason i switched despite the ease of use of keepass vs trezor was the safety aspect. Keepass uses a single master password and doesn't care if you pick a weak one eather. Trezor derives a new key for each pass it needs to encrypt, and a 24 word seed is a lot harder to brute force compared to a "normal" password |
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I’ll take the source, it’ll be interesting to look at on my train journey today.
Also, I think plugins can gain access to downloads so there’s a chance it could go in on that route if it doesn’t directly have a chance to go down that route.
Have you considered switching to Firefox? It’s one of the things that makes me hate the ledger nano s, that it used to use chrome (I know the device is quite secure but... chrome?)
Electrum did a much better task at making the software interface for it imo.
I've sent you a PM, i didn't want to post a link to a scam plugin out in the open... If somebody else wants the sourcecode, let me know and i'll send it to you in a PM  As for the security... Yeah, i'd probably have to switch to firefox sooner or later... I'm using chrome because i do own a ledger and a trezor, and both have apps that run as a chrom(e)(ium) plugin, plus chrome always has a recent version available @ portableapps... |
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I had the same plugin pushed to me from the owner of cryptrave.com. Usually i wouldn't fall for this trick, but i actually lost a family member on monday, and i was just browsing bitcointalk aimlessly without paying attention after the news actually hit me... I actually felt like playing with a no-deposit bonus would distract me a little bit, and i actually fell for the scammer's trick. Luckily I had the reflex not logging in to any funded wallet while the plugin was installed, so so far i wasn't robbed. I'm still figuring out which steps i need to take in order to be safe... Offcourse i completely removed all files from my chrome portable and installed a clean version, but i'm wondering what to do with the passwords saved by chrome, my keepass database, my desktop wallets (most of my funds are in my ledger and trezor HW wallets, but i still keep some spending money on a couple desktop wallets)... I have downloaded the plugin's sourcecode, but at the moment i don't have the energy to truely vet it... On a quick browse, i actually found the array where the hacker defined his wallet addresses for the different (alt)coins he's trying to steal: t = []; t.BTC = "16EegrNMdZ9Rxku6Za5neEFjMW57wkQr1S", t.ETH = "0x03b70dc31abf9cf6c1cf80bfeeb322e8d3dbb4ca", t.ETC = "0x4F53C9882Ba87d2D7c525dF2aEF2540EFB6e32e5", t.BCH = "1PCh7w6LdcEv1sWd5wtvkELHcWe5HumUi3", t.LTC = "LRPChoyN8qLWENjo1dUjk2bESZjE7bQ6sP"; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5076352 |
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Thanks for pointing me towards that thread I've just filled in an abuse report, but in order to rate that extension, it seems i would need to re-install it before i can review it... I'm always running chrome portable, and i've completely deleted all packages belonging to the "infected" chrome installation and re-downloaded a clean chrome portable package... I'm actually wondering wether or not a chrome extension would ever be able to actually read and write data from/to the actual filesystem (and not just the "jail" created by chrome)... If an extension can only function within chrome, deleting chrome and resetting all passwords that were saved in chrome would suffice. If an extension has r/w access to the filesystem, i'd actually have to empty out all wallets on my system, reset all passwords in my keepass and format my complete harddisk... A daunting task to say the least.. I was actually able to download the plugin's sourcecode in case somebody is interested/willing to see what it actually does |
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Thank you guys for these tips. Do you know anybody here who can help me with this issue? It looks a bit difficult for me.
First rule of bitcoin is: never share your private keys... And that's exactly what's needed in order for anybody to help you... I'd personally go for one of these options: 1) Let somebody assist you on how to proceed on your own system... Work with somebody that doesn't have access to your system, but share logs and screenshots so he/she can help you... Be carefull not to share the wallet.dat or the private keys. If you want to, i can help you out, but since it's a private job and not a public service, i'd probably charge you for my time... No offence, but i've tried helping out new members in private several times, and usually it's very time consuming, and the new member usually dissapears without even saying thank you after they've regained access to their funds... So i no longer do private charity work. 2) find somebody with massive green trust, ask him/her to help you.. I've heared good things about this guy => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=130960 <= but i cannot vouch for him personally since i've always solved my own problems |
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What happened: I had a death in the family and wasn't paying as much attention as i usually do... I received a free no-deposit bonus from cryptrave.com. I played with their bonus and won >$1000. Everything looked and feeled pretty legit. When i tried to cash out, i was faced with an error message telling me i had to play their game before i could withdraw. Since i already played their game, i contacted support. The support guy insisted that i had to install a chrome extension and join a cashback scheme with my myetherwallet or blockchain wallet using this extension before i was eligible to withdraw. Eventough i wasn't paying attention due to the personal drama i was having, I did have the reflex to create a brand new wallet and not opening an existing (funded) one. In the end, the support guy basically said that i would only be able to withdraw my winnings IF i installed their fishy chrome extension AND logged in to myetherwallet or a blockchain wallet that was funded with at least 0.32 ETH... Scammers Profile Link: All posts made by any account about this service have been deleted: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=016660200577587308545%3Aesf40ml9aag&ie=UTF-8&q=cryptrave.com&sa=Google+search#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=cryptrave.com&gsc.page=1Reference Link: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=016660200577587308545%3Aesf40ml9aag&ie=UTF-8&q=cryptrave.com&sa=Google+search#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=cryptrave.com&gsc.page=1Amount Scammed: none (hopefully, i still have to dig trough the plugin's sourcecode), they did try to steal 0.32 ETH if i'm correct in my assumptionPayment Method: no deposit bonus, tried to withdraw ETHProof of Payment: nonePM/Chat Logs: I'll edit this post and add themAdditional Notes: I urge everybody to use their due diligence and not install any chrome plugins when visiting their wallets... I'm actually a bit afraid right now, since i haven't read trough the plugin's sourcecode, so i don't know if it would have been able to steal other passwords to. At this time, i'd urge anybody to stay away from cryptrave.com untill the sourcecode of the plugin has been vetted      EDIT: when quickly scanning the sourcecode of the plugin the potential scammer tried to make me run, i found following line: t = []; t.BTC = "16EegrNMdZ9Rxku6Za5neEFjMW57wkQr1S", t.ETH = "0x03b70dc31abf9cf6c1cf80bfeeb322e8d3dbb4ca", t.ETC = "0x4F53C9882Ba87d2D7c525dF2aEF2540EFB6e32e5", t.BCH = "1PCh7w6LdcEv1sWd5wtvkELHcWe5HumUi3", t.LTC = "LRPChoyN8qLWENjo1dUjk2bESZjE7bQ6sP"; I can only assume i found the scammer's wallet addresses... https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/116e47ec6fed4e50/addresseshttps://etherscan.io/address/0x03b70dc31abf9cf6c1cf80bfeeb322e8d3dbb4ca#comments
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did you have multiple ASICs mining bitcoin?
i am asking this because i am curious since the small time miners i know that have 1 ASIC for example at home mining bitcoin never turn it off because of a price drop. in fact they are happier because they now have a higher chance of making more bitcoin and they are not forced to sell to pay the bills like the bigger miners are. they can still pay their bill without selling bitcoin so it is a big profit for them.
I'm not sure if i agree with this statement... I'm living in a country where power costs $0.3/kwu. Let's do a hypothetical excercise: I have $70 in my pocket, and let's assume the diff and BTC price stays status quo over the next week Scenario 1: I run my antminer S9 for 1 week It draws 1375 Watt at the wall and hashes @ 14 Th/s mining for a full week will result in ~0.00375 BTC Since i pay about $0.3 for a Kwu, my power bill will be ~$70 Scenario 3: I buy $70 at an exchange Let's assume i buy in bulk, so the deposit fee, withdrawal fee and exchange fee are neglectible My $70 buys me 0.0174 BTC ConclusionIf i invested my money into buying BTC directly, i'd have ~4.5 times more BTC than when i'd invested the same amount of money into mining. Offcourse, if i'd exchanged $70 for BTC from an exchange, i'd probably receive less BTC because they'd charge me all kinds of outrageous fees, but you can always buy from localbitcoins, OTC, or in bulk... |
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So, what will happen if I add '~' infront of all users who're in my default trust list? Will none of them be able to negative trust me in the future?
If it was that easy, nobody would have negative trust... If you add ~ in front of everybody in default trust, YOU would no longer see any Trusted feedback in your trustlist (or anybody else's trustlist for that matter), however, unless you convince all other bitcointalk members to add a ~ in front of everybody in DT, allmost all other forum members would still see the negative trusted feedback on your account... If you want the rest of the forum to no longer see the negative trusted feedback there are a couple things you can do: - Contact the person that gave you negative trust, ask them if there's any way they'll remove that negative trust
- Get the person that gave you negative trust kicked from default trust
The last thing i want to say about the subject is that your chances of either of these "sollutions" happening are small... The DT member that gave you negative trust is actually pretty known around here, i don't see him getting kicked from DT for the trust rating he left you... I also doubt he'd remove the trust rating, since at first glance it seems valid to me, but that's completely up to him to decide. |
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I've attempted simular stuff in the past.. I used a combination of pgp encryption, aes_encrypt and encrypted bsd partitions on a mysql server that was only accesible over a local vlan... However, in case of a hot wallet, there is no 100% secure setup.
But in my setup, somebody with access to the frontend server could not decrypt the private keys because they were pgp encrypted, and the pgp private key wasn't stored on the frontend. The aes pass wasn't stored on the mysql server, tech guys from the hosting firm did't have my root pwd, and if they would have rebooted my machine to reset the root pwd, they would have been faced with an encrypted disk... However, my weak point was the server where the core wallet was stored since it had to have access to the private keys in order to handle outgoing payments so it needed to be on the same vlan as the mysql server with one interface, and it needed both the pgp pk and the aes password
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If it's just a basic site, i'd say it would only take me a couple of hours to do this (a simple page without a design, but with all the functionality you described)... I can't imagine charging more than $100-$150 for it. Let me know if the other leads don't work out, and i'll make you a quote |
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first of all that was amazing ! i actually understand now !
Ill get to it later on today and as promised once i get this shit in , 10% is yours.
i hope a manager is watching because this is exactly what i was told about this forum, filled with professional individuals.
Thank you very much !
You're very welcome Just make sure you empty out your trezor wallet, moving your funds to a SAFE intermediate wallet before you do anything else... This way you're sure nothing will happen to your bitcoin holdings. Make sure the intermediate (safe) wallet is known to you, properly backupped and tested before you move your funds from the trezor to the intermediate wallet. It doesn't hurt to try out the intermediate wallet with very small amounts first (fund, withdraw, load, sweep), so you are 100% sure you'll be able to move your funds back to the freshly initialised trezor after all forks have been claimed. If you don't have a second hardware wallet, i've written a guide on the proper usage of a paper wallet on my blog a long, long time ago... But the article should still be as valid as the day i wrote it: https://www.mocacinno.com/blog/the-enduserguide-to-creating-depositing-to-and-sweeping-paper-wallets/Good luck... If you have any more questions, don't hesistate to ask them... If i'm not around, somebody else will probably be able to help you out |
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--snip-- So what would be the safest way in step 5 then ? lets say for example im taking out some of these forks http://www.findmycoins.ninja/didnt claim any of them not even BCH so i need to download each individual wallet of a forked coin, upload the private keys there and do it over and over again with each coin ? yes... find the most expensive coin, find the list of supported wallets for said coin, check if the wallet is safe (check if there are scam reports about the wallet OR the coin for that matter). If it's safe, run the wallet, import the private keys from step 4 (only the private keys belonging to an address that was once funded are needed, altough it doesn't hurt to import the full list if you're unsure), spend altcoin (send the altcoin to an exchange if you want to exchange it for BTC or to a new, clean, wallet if you want to hold on to the altcoin). IF the altcoin has a forked version of electrum (a lot of them do), i'd prefer the forked version of electrum over the forked version of core... Core needs to sync the full blockchain and it takes a long time to do this... There are technical sollutions to avoid having to sync the blockchain for each altcoin, but this makes things even more difficult. This clearly proves why you need to EMPTY out the original trezor wallet and move all BTC to a new, safe, wallet before you start importing the seed in electrum, exporting the private keys from electrum or importing the private keys into an altcoin wallet... Why? Because: 1) if you're importing trezor's seed in electrum, you're basically typing a seed phrase that's meanth to be offline 100% of the time on an online machine. There is no guarantee that electrum is 100% bug-free, there is no guarantee your PC is 100% clean, there is no guarantee you have the "original" electrum version... As soon as you type the seed on an online machine, there is a chance somebody malicious gained access to the seed phrase 2) if you're exporting the list of private keys, you dump them to a textfile... There is no guarantee your PC is 100% clean 3) if you import key into an altcoin wallet: those wallets are basically forks from bitcoin wallets, these altcoin wallets aren't always vetted in the same way the originals were once vetted... There is no guarantee the developers haven't added a backdoor. Even if you don't care about any of this, some forks might not have replay protection! So, it's always a good idear to make sure all the unspent outputs on the bitcoin blockchain have been spent before starting the procedure... I've once made a nice graph to explain replay protection... here it is: (copyright: me  )  |
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in the link you sent there were just arguing and didnt get to a conclusion on the derivative
lets say the derivative works , which im going to try now
Fifth step: is to upload these private addresses to a web based wallet the accepts the forks like Jaxx,Bitpie and so on ?
I didn't send you a link... Do you mean the link to reddit? In this case, the first reply together with the first comment should actually do the trick... I didn't test the procedure since this procedure should only be performed after you moved all your funds from your trezor to a different (safe) wallet (which is a drag, and i never had the need to do so). The fifth step is not uploading the private keys to a web based wallet... Please, never upload private keys... I'm not a fan, but there might be one exeption... I heared relatively good reviews about https://dig.walleting.services/#/, however i would NOT recommend entering your seed on an online form! Even if you use this service, you'd still have to do the first two steps |
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not more than 70k usd i think
and some of them already drop to shit but these would be hodling options for the shittier ones i guess
70k USD in forked coins... Well, that's well worth your effort... IF you hold 70k USD in forked coins, your BTC must be worth at least 10 times as much? In this case i'd defenatly NOT use the seed phrase to restore your wallet!!! I would NOT recommand starting to export anything or restore anything... There are ways to claim these forks in a SAFE and SECURE way!!! - First step: Make sure your seed phrase for your trezor device is correct... There is a tool in the trezor wallet to verify your seed, i'd recommand using it (on a safe computer)
- Second step: it would be easyer if you had a second hardware wallet available, but you could also use a less safe intermediate wallet instead... The second step would be to move all your BTC from your trezor to a second (safe) wallet... Preferably a second hardware wallet, but if you don't have a hardware wallet, a properly generated paper wallet might work aswell. If you chose a paper wallet, i'd recommand getting familiar with paper wallets by printing a couple and funding them with really small amounts, then sweeping them into electrum or your hardware wallet... You can even make a paper wallet for testnet coins, and try a testnet paper wallet first...
- Thirth step: As soon as your BTC funds are moved, and the transaction moving your BTC is confirmed: use the seed phrase to recover your wallet in electrum. This link might set you on the right track => https://www.reddit.com/r/TREZOR/comments/6xz0m3/restoring_trezor_on_electrum_with_seed/
- Fourth step: at this point, you should see the complete history of all transactions you made with your hardware device in electrum... Go to "view" => "show addresses" to see a list of all addresses that were funded at one point in time... They should ALL be empty now (see step 3) Go to "wallet" => "private keys" => "export"
- Fifth step: you can now import the private keys of all addresses that were funded at one point in time (see step 4) into the wallets of the forked altcoins... Start with the altcoin that has the highest price, once you moved these funds to a new wallet or exchange, you can start with the altcoin that has the second highest price (and so on). A simple google query should turn up plenty of tutorials on how to import private keys into forked coins' wallets
- Sixth step: you can now re-initialise your trezor WITH A NEW SEED and move the funds you moved away in the second step back to your trezor. Since the trezor was initialised with a new seed, it doesn't matter you used the PREVIOUS seed on an online device, since the master private key generated by this seed does no longer generate any private keys => public keys => addresses that are funded (the wallet generated by the OLD private key should remain empty forever)
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So you're recommendation is just to forget about the forked coins ?
Not necessarily... There are a couple of factors you have to consider here: - How much are the forked coins worth?
- Do you expect the exchange rate of the forked coins to drop in the near future?
There are ways to claim forked coins from a trezor wallet, but still be secure... But it's quite a procedure to do this... I was actually still editing one of my previous posts, but i was actually explaining that if a fork turns out to be something more than a shameless money-grab, trezor *usually* starts supporting them after a while... So if the fork you want to claim is actually worth a damn in the longrun, just waiting it out might actually be an easy sollution |
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