All that's required is to import the private key into Bitcoin Core, then make a transaction to a secure address. Since you're talking about $90k, you need someone trusted, but you're in a hurry too, as you'll lose your money the moment fees drop. Your incoming transaction to 1DCVZer3a9h2oWCHj778e9zWatseehD69g has a very low fee though, so you may have some time. But if you double spend, there's also a chance the attacker will do the same again. So whoever helps you, may or may not be called a thief after this happens. That makes accepting your private key very risky too. Do what DannyHamilton suggests, but hurry! Depending how desperate you are: I think you can use https://coinb.in/ to quickly sign Danny's transaction (and entrust your funds to Danny), but I would NEVER trust an online site with my private key.
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You paid a very high fee (287 sat/byte), it's just that fees for a fast transaction are currently double that amount. If you're not in a rush, I suggest you just wait it out. It will most likely confirm on Sunday, when the Bitcoin network gets less transactions and fees go down a bit. Your money isn't lost or anything.
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Hi, it is about 150 euros, is that too little?
May I suggest you try shapeshift.io? After setting it up, all you need to do is send your Bitcoin Cash to the address Shapeshift gives you. Do they actually support exchanging BCH? Or is it only BTC and ETH?
It seems like they support it. Note that you'll have the same 0.08 in Bitcoin Gold too.
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I tried to increase fees as much as I could (with a bar) and the message wouldn't change. Well I guess I'll give up on that money, it's not big but it's still 20-30 $ Don't give up on it, just keep it until fees get lower again (somewhere in the far future?). Fee : 963.sat/byte and it's the max.
Are you sending 1 input worth 0.002 BTC entirely to miners?
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The bitcoin core program wallet should tell you the password you are typing, typed or copy and pasted. That way cases like this would never exist. That would create much bigger problems: anybody could read it from your screen! The common solution against typing errors is to enter the password twice, but just to be sure, I always test if I can unlock my wallet anyway. maybe the password could be a wallet address cause I remember i sent many coins to mt-gox and after that I encrypted the wallet. Your best odds are to reproduce everything you've ever copy/pasted. You're in luck if it's a used Bitcoin address, as they're all public information and can be extracted from the blockchain. Brute force is the only thing that would work here, given bitcoin price now and what it could reach and quantum computers, maybe now is hard but in few years or decades would be possible With 44 random characters you don't stand a chance, unless a vulnerability in the encryption will be found in the future. Not sure, just throwing something here: maybe you had an invisible character at the end of password? Like a new line: \n You could be on to something here: Notepad and Wordpad handle those in a different way. You could even try installing the same Windows version, just in case (even though it's a long shot, it's a lot more likely than brute forcing it).
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My Electrum wallet contains 0.002 btc. I would like to transfer them back to gdax. But there's two things : - on the gdax deposit page, it's written that the minimum deposit is 0.01 btc Fees are terrible high at the moment. Sites don't like small deposits, because it costs a lot to consolidate the small inputs. - when I try to sent them, an error message appears on Electrum : "This transaction requires a higher fee or it will not pe propaged by the network" You can set a lower fee manually, but that means your transaction will take a long time. Currently, any input lower than 0.001 BTC isn't worth sending. The required fee is higher than that amount. If you have 0.002 BTC in your wallet, in 2 or more small inputs, the sad reality is you can't use it until the fees go down. I just had an issue with a tx so I'll ask before doing it : Should I transfer 0.008 btc into my wallet so the minimum amount of btc will be reached ? But what about the fees ? Will it reduce my tx to less than 0.01 btc so I won't able to transfer them ? This won't help. Suppose you add 0.008 BTC, bringing your total balance to 0.01 BTC. Now suppose the required fee is 0.004 BTC, that leaves you 0.006 BTC to send. You're better off sending the 0.008 BTC directly to somewhere else. My advice: Keep your 0.002 BTC, but don't bother trying to use it at this current high fees.
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Yes, I have backups of the wallet.dat. So what is the best alternative in my case? Any hope?
Is your oldest backup from before encrypting the wallet? If so, see what is says when you open it in Bitcoin Core.
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About the keyboard, not sure if is related cause it was a copy paste password from a written password on notepad, i remember i checked 2 times and then I applied the password to encrypt the wallet and then after few days I went back and the paraphrase could not work, so i left it alone since 2013. As it was a copy paste password, i'm not sure if special characters printed something else, is hard to say. I'm trying now cause is worth some work for almost $60k hehe For this reason, I always type at least part of the password I copy/paste when I enter it the second time for verification. This ensures I'm not accidentally copying something else. Do you by any chance have a backup of your wallet.dat from before the encryption? When you said "Bitcoin wallet", I assumed you have a wallet.dat file made by Bitcoin Core (or bitcoin-qt). This article is about brain wallets, cracking them doesn't target your wallet, it cracks random wallets.
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Hello all, is there a way to crack a 44 characters passphrase with brute force? Brute force you won't have a chance, with a smart attack like racquemis says it might work. I was using the US windows 7 64 bit version at that time, British keyboard Can you buy the same keyboard and try to reproduce what you did at the time?
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Many people use it, so the 100 transactions per hour fill up very quickly. You should avoid small transactions, your 0.00048874 BTC output for instance is smaller than the fee required to use it again. Basically, it's worthless dust at the moment.
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Alright, so I saw that Bitcoin Core needs almost 150GB, but that was only after I started downloading and synchronizing to a 120GB SSD and had already transferred bitcoin to a receiving address on there. A quick solution is to export the private key from Bitcoin Core, and import it into Electrum. But it's totally fine to keep using the pruned version of Bitcoin Core, on an SSD it shouldn't take too long to sync. The pruned version should only take a couple of GB. I am running Ubuntu Studio, and Bitcoin Core v0.15.1.0. I have tried to locate the bitcoin.conf file, but I do not have a .bitcoin folder anywhere. The default location for .bitcoin is: The closest I can find to that is /home/%username%/.config/bitcoin/Bitcoin-QT.conf. I have went into this file, and added prune=550, but every time I launch Bitcoin it keeps widdling away at the 3GB I have left on the SSD before I hit maximum capacity, and the Synchronizing is almost at 50%. Unless you were very low on disk space from the start, it shouldn't be a problem. The chainstate directory is still a few GB after pruning. I suggest you close Bitcoin Core, and start it from the console like this: This should work without any config file adjustments.
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OK, I already have the BTC in an electrum wallet.
My question is, if I import the private key of the 1BTC addy to the "electroncash" BCC wallet is that all I need to do to move the BCC without fucking up my BTC? You can probably do this, but it means you have to completely trust electroncash. A much safer approach is to move your Bitcoin to a new address, one that isn't related to your old wallet, before importing your private key in any untrusted software. After this, you can import the private key to access your Bitcoin Cash. I don't trust Electron Cash on my normal computer though, so I used it in a VM (Virtual Machine) to be safe. Next, you can do the same for Bitcoin Gold and Bitcore (I used Coinomi on Android to import those private keys).
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Bittrex stopped taking on new users: We have received an enormous number of new account registrations over the past few weeks. We are excited to have so many new users who want to join the Bittrex community. Unfortunately, we have to make a few upgrades to our support and backend systems to handle the increased traffic and load. As such, we have halted new user registrations for the time being. ( source) At least it's something, of course they should have taken measures before reducing withdrawal limits to zero, but this at least means the number of victims stops going up.
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When we can buy Blackbytes on an exchange?
If you read what you're quoting you'll see you can do that right now. It could be interesting if BEEB starts accepting other coins too, so you can buy blackbytes with LTC for instance.
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Are you sure this will work? It also didn't work with the other wallet... What if it does not? I'm pretty sure it should work, but if it doesn't work, you're just back to where you are now. Would it be to the same address or can you specify a new one? If new one: Would the receiving end have to be a wallet? (Because I could save another 15 Bucks fee if it goes directly to the destination I need and no wallet in-between) It's a new transaction and can be any address. I am still probably gonna ask my friend if he arrives at home. If he doens't like the idea you're my number one choice Deal
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What would very long mean? Weeks? Months? And how do I know if they are keeping to broadcast it? I should have an assumption if I would ask my friend. I don't know, unfortunately. If we would do it like you suggested: Can you explain me how this would work exactly if you sell my keys for me? How likely will I get scammed by the third guy? How will I possibly get paid? There won't be a third party, I won't sell your keys, I'll import them in my Bitcoin Core, wait 2 hours to rescan, and make a transaction to your address with much higher fee. This is how I used to double spend, so I assume this still works. If you're okay with me having a share, I'll happily keep a share. Just on the side: Another service told me my transaction is a double-spend; how would I detect that? If I watch the transaction stuff on Blockchain, I only see BTC coming in from where I bought them and going out into the stuck transaction, so how is it a double-spend? I think the double spend happened when you make a new transaction, while the first is still in mempool. You can also send me a PN if it is "too personal", I can just not answer you there.
No need, this can all be public (except for your private keys of course!).
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You could be the third party that manages the deal. Giving 3 parties access to the same private key doesn't make it any safer. I am also willing to give any possible assurance that I will not do bad things. (ID, contract, whatever) ID has no value when it comes to crypto, nobody is going to hunt you down for 0.006 BTC. I honestly have no use for these BTC if they are stuck in the orbit for weeks and I am desperate enough to do anything. Like I said, I can give it a try in Bitcoin Core, and given my track record here I think it's pretty obvious I'm not going to scam you for that. It's only 0.0069 BTC (at the time 128 Dollars) so it's not like the world would go under if something goes wrong. I would be fine if I get like 60 Dollars out of it. $60 bonus is always nice. If they keep broadcasting: very long. I also thought about to send it to a friend from real life that can use it later on. He would at least be sure that I do not trick him or anything. And even if the transaction accidentally still goes through, he can still use my BTC from my account I have sent it to and I make a new one. That's also an easy solution.
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I can import my keys into Electrum and see my unconfirmed transaction, as well as my balance (of 0 now, since all my BTC are stuck in this transaction). I can not resend the transaction with a higher fee from there. Sorry, so Electrum doesn't allow for double spends. I didn't know that. Does anyone think I can sell my Private Keys for money if I put on a 50% discount on it? The buyer would be dumb: you still have access after selling them. I could try it for you from Bitcoin Core, but that goes directly against the "do not ever trust anyone with your private keys" principle.
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