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241  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Transferring bitcoins from a paper wallet to Electrum wallet for Android on: February 02, 2024, 06:09:59 PM
I created another wallet and imported the private key, but the balance is 0.
What now?
Tap on your wallet name at top left corner of the screen and go "Addresses/Coins". After that, you will see a bitcoin address. Is the address same as your paper wallet address?
If the address is not correct, either you entered a wrong private key or imported a correct private key but with wrong script type. Note that if your address starts with bc1, you should add "p2wpkh:" before the private key.


I edited the post to fix a typo. Thanks Charles-Tim for the correction.
242  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How do nodes confirm transactions and determine if a block is valid or not on: February 02, 2024, 11:25:28 AM
The transaction is added to the blockchain and deemed "confirmed" if it successfully completes all validation checks. I hope this makes it more clear how nodes validate or confirm transactions on the block.
Wrong.
As I said in the first reply, transactions are confirmed by miners.

Transactions must be valid, so that they can be included in the blockchain, but it's not that a transaction is included in the blockchain once it's validated.
For a transaction being confirmed, it's required that a miner (or a mining pool) solves the proof of work problem, mines a block and includes that transaction in the block.
243  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Send requiring co-signer after update? on: February 02, 2024, 06:34:40 AM
A transaction can be partially signed, if you are using a multi-signature wallet.

If your wallet is m of n multi-signature wallet and m is greater than 1, you have to provide more than 1 signature for each of UTXOs you are trying to spend. So, your transaction is partially signed and it needs to be singed by cosigner(s) as well. To do so, you should export the partially signed transaction and import it to the cosigner wallet.
244  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: why a large Bitcoin transaction does consume more space on the Blockchain on: February 01, 2024, 05:22:40 PM
For example if you're to spend 1BTC in a TX and a 0.10 BTC you don't expect the smaller transaction to contain a bigger space. The higher the input the higher the space it takes in the Blockchain and also the higher the tx fee.
You are completely wrong.

Please always read previous replies before making a post.
As already stated, the transaction size and the fee doesn't depend on the amount you send. Therefore, it doesn't matter you are spending 1 BTC or 0.1 BTC.
What matters is the number of inputs and outputs.
245  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: why a large Bitcoin transaction does consume more space on the Blockchain on: February 01, 2024, 04:25:49 PM
Every time you make a bitcoin transaction, you broadcast some data.

For example, for each input you add to your transaction, you should have a TXID, an index and an unlocking script in the transaction data. Also, for each output you add to your transaction, you should have a value and a locking script.
The more inputs or outputs you have in your transaction, the larger data you have to broadcast to the network and the larger data the miner has to include in the blockchain.

(The raw transaction should include some other data and what I mentioned above are just some of them.)
246  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: HELP: Sent BTC: 78 confirmations, Unpaid and BTC sent to different addresses on: February 01, 2024, 01:58:13 PM
Is there a way to recover the fund that are in the change address? Looks like that is where they are stuck and never really left the wallet.
The change addresses (those that are highlighted in yellow) are your own addresses.
Any fund that has been sent to your change addresses should be displayed in your wallet and you should be able to spend them easily.

Now the problem is that the fund has been moved from bc1qj2ay5m3l45klwappmqu9zw7ddlqlydr5mqeppw (your change address) to bc1qfk6ky2r2ww7tkn4ymt59t4lq85rerthfemz3xr.
If you didn't make that transaction, your wallet has been compromised.
247  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: better to send BTC to Wallet address or to my Public Key? on: January 31, 2024, 09:09:11 PM
P2PK (Pay to public key) transactions were common in the early days of bitcoin.
These days, it's not common to pay bitcoin to a pubic key. If someone wants to send you bitcoin, give him/her your address.


which brings me to the question: how can I differentiate between a wallet address and a public key?
Your bitcoin address is derived from your public key.

A public keys starts with 02 or 03, if it's compressed and with 04, if it's uncompressed.
A bitcoin address starts with 1, 3 or bc1.


You might be talking about the public key with 130 characters? or xPUb?
xpub is the term used for master public key.

OP is probably talking about individual public keys. A public key includes 66 or 130 characters.


And take note if it's a 130 characters or xpub you cant send a BTC to that address you need to use or provide an address that starts with 1, 3, or bc1 if you give a different address than these then you can't be able to send or receive BTC.
Technically speaking, it's possible to pay bitcoin to public key, but as I said, that's not common these days.
248  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Remove 2FA in Electrum and use Standard Wallet instead. on: January 31, 2024, 08:53:33 PM
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If you disable 2FA, your wallet would be still a 2 of 3 multi-signature wallet, but with two master private keys.
Of the 2 master private keys, one of them is for my receiving wallet address, is that correct? and the other one is?
I feel you don't know how a multi-signature wallet works.

The standard wallet you create on electrum is a single-signature wallet which means that there's one private key for each of your addresses.

In a m of n multi-signature wallet, there are n private keys for each of your addresses and m of them are required for signing a transaction.
As I already said, Electrum 2FA wallet is a 2 of 3 multi-signature address. This means that for spending from each of your addresses, two private keys are required.

Since your private keys are derived from master private keys, two out of three master private keys are required for spending fund from your wallet.

Let's say the master private keys are MPK1, MPK2 and MPK3

MPK1 is kept is stored in the wallet file.
MPK2 is owned by trustedcoin.
Your seed phrase can generate MPK1 and MPK3.

When 2FA is enabled, you sign your transaction using private key(s) dervied from MPK1 and with entering the 2FA code, you ask trustedcoin to cosign the transaction using the private keys(s) derived from MPK2.
When 2FA is disabled, your wallet file contains MPK1 and MPK3. You have two master private keys in your wallet file and you no longer rely on trustedcoin for making transactions.


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If you want your transaction to include only 1 output, you should spend the entire balance of selected UTXOs, so that your transaction doesn't have any change.
So what I need to do is just send the maximum amount of the current multi-signature wallet to a standard wallet, right?
Yes.
249  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Remove 2FA in Electrum and use Standard Wallet instead. on: January 31, 2024, 01:49:23 PM
Is there a way to make this disabled 2FA wallet to a standard wallet besides sending bitcoins to a standard wallet?
Electrum 2FA wallet is a 2 of 3 multi-signature wallet and there is no way to turn a multi-signature address to a single-signature address.

As long as 2FA is enabled, your wallet file contains one master private key and if you want to make a transaction, you should ask trustedcoin to cosign your transaction.
If you disable 2FA, your wallet would be still a 2 of 3 multi-signature wallet, but with two master private keys.

As mentioned by Charles-Tim above, if you want your fund to be in a singles-signature wallet, you have to make a new transaction and send the fund to your new wallet.


So since there is no extra fee covering that 1 output, there are now only 2 outputs. What is the basis of the outputs? How can it be to be 1 output only?
If you want your transaction to include only 1 output, you should spend the entire balance of selected UTXOs, so that your transaction doesn't have any change.
250  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Is there any easy way to import coinomi wallet ,to Electrum?.? on: January 31, 2024, 11:30:46 AM
So just to clarify when my friend imports from electrum straight to coinomi,, and selects bip39, and native segwit,, when is the Step where it will ask you,,,, to put in the 24 word phrase?       Does that come after doing both of these steps first?
Select "Standard wallet" and then "I already have a seed". After that, you should enter your seed phrase.

If you are using the android version, you should select BIP39 in the dropdown menu at top of the screen.
If you are using the desktop version, you should click on "Options" and then select "BIP39".

The script type will be asked after entering the seed phrasing.

. and once she gets it imported into electrum, it won't even be staying there she will be sending it by regular transaction means to her main wallet.  
With importing your seed phrase into electrum, you don't move your fund. You only import your keys, so that you can make a transaction using electrum.


electrum fees are very small ,,I've already checked that out,,,, so that's why she wants to import first into electrum,, and then she will transfer that ,,by a regular transaction ,,to her main wallet
Take note that neither electrum nor trustwallet charge you any fee and. All the fee you pay goes to miners and you can set the fee by yourself.
The fee you should pay for your transaction depends on how congested the network is, how fast you want your transaction to be confirmed, number of inputs and outputs and their types.
251  Other / Meta / Re: Logged out and Logged in on my bitcointalk acct on: January 30, 2024, 08:46:38 PM
The message displayed about bitcoin core has nothing to do with the error you got. That message is  displayed at top of every page and it's just giving you the link to bitcoin core website.
You got that error probably because you left a page open for a long time and your session code changed in that time.

For more information, read the old post made by theymos.

You'll notice that some links (such as the logout link) end in a long code like this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=logout;sesc=3da541559918a808c2402bba5012f6c
All forms also have something like this, but it's hidden. The purpose of this code is to prevent CSRF attacks.

If you click a link or send a form that contains the wrong code, then you get the "session verification failed" error. This can happen when your code changes, but you're still looking at the old version of the page for some reason. Aggressive caching could cause this. Or maybe your browser is discarding the PHPSESSID cookie very frequently for some reason; your session code changes whenever you're issued a new PHPSESSID.
252  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Sent BTC: 78 confirmations, Unpaid and BTC not arrived in wallet on: January 30, 2024, 08:28:38 PM
If I understood you correctly, bc1qj2ay5m3l45klwappmqu9zw7ddlqlydr5mqeppw is highlighted in yellow. If that's the case, it means that that's your own address.
Did you cancel any transaction? When you cancel a tranaction, electrum replaces it with a new transaction sending the fund to one of your own addresses.

The fund was sent to bc1qj2ay5m3l45klwappmqu9zw7ddlqlydr5mqeppw and then to bc1qfk6ky2r2ww7tkn4ymt59t4lq85rerthfemz3xr.

Do you know bc1qfk6ky2r2ww7tkn4ymt59t4lq85rerthfemz3xr?
253  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Remove 2FA in Electrum and use Standard Wallet instead. on: January 30, 2024, 08:16:07 PM
I was unable to recover the 2FA on Android just as Text posted. The error I got was different but it was an error. I tried it the first and second time with the same error. Test is using a mobile phone for it.
I also tried to import a 2FA seed phrase into the android version of electrum to see how it works and got the following error.
 


I cleated electrum's cache to see if it solves the problem. It didn't and I got the same error again.
After that, I cleared all electrum's data from my device and then imported a 2FA wallet. It worked.

It seems that once you create your first wallet in electrum, it no longer allows you to import a 2FA wallet.
254  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How do nodes confirm transactions and determine if a block is valid or not on: January 30, 2024, 02:25:33 PM
Nodes validate all transactions they receive. If a transaction is valid, the node sends it to other nodes.
Validation means checking if the transaction follows consensus rules. For example, one of consensus rules is that the total value of outputs must not be greater than the total value of inputs.

Nodes also check if the transaction follows their own rules. For example, almost all nodes reject any transaction with the fee rate of less than 1 sat/vbyte.
Note that a transaction with the fee rate of less than 1 sat/vbyte can be valid, but nodes usually reject such transaction.


and I also read that transactions on the blockchain are kept and encrypted within blocks and that a  block's transactions needs to be verified in order for a new block to formed.
Transactions are not encrypted.
Miners include transactions in the blockchain exactly as they receive them.


I need more explanation because I still don't understand how a node confirms a transaction and determines whether a block is valid, it seems too complicated.
Transactions are not confirmed by nodes. Transactions are confirmed by miners.
Take note that confirmation means being included in the blockchain and that's different from being validated.

A miner (or a mining pool) that manage to find a block, sends the block to the network. Nodes receive the block and validate it.
Validation of a block means checking if the block and the transactions included in that are valid.
255  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Remove 2FA in Electrum and use Standard Wallet instead. on: January 30, 2024, 01:52:11 PM
I tried earlier, but after entering the 12-seed phrase, the finish button is not clickable.
I guess you selected "Standard wallet" when creating the new wallet.
As stated above by Charles-Tim, you should select "Wallet with two factor authentication".

In the desktop version of electrum, you can import your 2FA seed phrase even if you select "Standard wallet", but in the android version, you have to select "Wallet with two factor authentication".
256  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Is there any easy way to import coinomi wallet ,to Electrum?.? on: January 29, 2024, 08:33:49 AM
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The seed phrase you generated using Coinomi is BIP39 and as stated by Charles-Tim, you should select "BIP39" option when importing your seed phrase.

In the next step, electrum will ask you to choose the script type.
Since your addresses start with bc1, you should choose "native segwit (p2wpkh)"
257  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: compressed private key on: January 28, 2024, 09:57:39 PM
Because i have read that some users imported compressed private keys to electrum and the pub adress was a completely different one.
Compressed and uncompressed formats of your private key would generate different addresses.
Most probably, you don't need to derive the uncompressed format of your private key. It's not common to use uncompressed private keys and the address you are looking for is probably derived from the compressed private key.


if i import the private key on an offline device with electrum installed,  it will instantly confirm if the private key is valid to the belonging pub adress?
If you import your private key into electrum, you will see the derived address and you can check if that's correct.
If the address is correct, it means that you have the correct private key.
258  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Android Electrum wallet BIP39 passphrase on: January 28, 2024, 09:49:37 PM
Sorry but I'm not sure about this! Because if that was true then how is Electrum going to generate the key pairs of the imported wallet (BIP39) every time it loads?
Once you create a wallet with BIP39 seed phrase, electrum calculates the master private key and master public key and saves them in the wallet file.
With having master keys, electrum can generate private keys and addresses without any need to the seed phrase.
259  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Android Electrum wallet BIP39 passphrase on: January 28, 2024, 08:59:26 AM
On Android Electrum, you can not also know the private key of any address.
As mentioned by Zaguru12, you are probably using an old version of electrum. Since version 4.5.0, electrum allows you to see your private keys on android.


I think the electrum android wallet actually allows you to view the seed phrase, i don’t use electrum android but I have actually read it somewhere it was that seed phrase the many use to generate the private through ioncoleman.
Whether you use the android version or the desktop version, Electrum doesn't show the seed phrase if it's BIP39.
The seed phrase is saved in the wallet file, only if it has been generated by electrum itself.
260  Other / Meta / Re: [SAD] activity on: January 27, 2024, 08:44:22 PM
Your actvity is equal to minimum of your post count and 14 * number of two week actvity periods in which you have made at least 1 post.
You have been active in 17 periods and that's why your actvity can't be more than 14*17. Your activity will increase, once you make your first post in the next period.

The next activity period will start on February 2 at 12:46:40 (UTC).
See this post for exact starting time of actvity periods: TIL Activity does not work on precisely 2 week intervals + interval timings
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