Probably better suited for Beginners & Help.

Anyway, learn to google.

https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

If you're referring to bitcoin (i assume), then you can't withdraw "money", (as in your local currency) from "the blockchain" directly, but you will need to use an exchange. I'd recommend that you use a legitimate one such as Bitstamp, Kraken, Coinbase, (or, if P2P; LocalBitcoins.)

Nah, it just makes you hypocritical.

I'm not here pointing out "scams" and flattering myself for doing so.
Even if i were, i don't think it'd be close to comparable, although, in saying that, i also might be a bit hypocritical.

Anyway.. You do you.

Have you read the whitepaper of said company? They created "BitmeeEx"?
Have you seen their twitter?
https://twitter.com/EMIREX_OFFICIAL/status/1192403437327134720
One look at it and it's obvious that their interactions are obviously unorganic/bought. Looks like a cult.

It's even worse on facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/emirex.official/
Looks at those comments, reviews. just... How can you claim that that's legit?
 

"Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones"


I guess that would be commendable if you yourself weren't promoting the very thing you're trying to destroy.

But perhaps that's not for me to tell.

I'm not saying he's scamming, but it's pretty darn likely.
He is offering amazon giftcards @13000 $ per bitcoin, with no cash receipt, (so digital only?) and has -24 ratings.

Add these things up and you have a cocktail filled with immense risk.

I'd avoid him as the only way he can sell Amazon giftcards that cheap is by either fucking someone else over (hacking, etc.), or he's carding them/using them to launder other money.
(or the obvious: he's just scamming.)

Note: he also has +700 ratings, but, i've been a paxful seller, and it was really, really trivial to boost your account/ratings. there were entire groups of people () boosting each other into thousands of reps.

Also his ID verification is really no indication of his trustworthiness. It could be a photoshopped one, or if he's from a third world country he could've simply bought it for a few hundred bucks.

TLDR: If it seems too good be true....

I'm not sure exactly WHY, or what you need to prove, considering you have access to wallet B (where your funds are currently stored?)
Or, are we talking about the 175BTC that got stuck in an account / hacked, and that you now need to prove YOU actually sent, and not the opposing part, (the ones who supposedly accessed your account?)

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The only reputable blockchain analysis firm i know is https://chainanalysis.com - but i don't think they offer such services for individuals, or at least, they don't anymore. You could contact them and see if they're willing to help you out somehow. (175BTC) is a large amount.

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I think these two posts are very conflicting:
Did the actions in the post below happen almost simulteanously; meaning;
you sent 175 BTC to exchange X (from WALLET A) => then the change went to wallet B => wallet B sent that to exchange X,Y.

Or- was it like this. Wallet A 175BTC => Exchange X. Exchange X 275BTC => Wallet B.
If an accurate description of the timeline is more like the first, see [1]

Proof of this is simply provided by looking at the blockchain. (as HCP stated.)


Okay; so let me get this right: (you already have your funds under your control;)? but; someone is suing you saying that these funds were from wallet A, and belonged to them, instead of you.
You- don't have access to wallet A, because it got deleted?

Do you perhaps have access from any previous adress that the 175BTC travelled through? I imagine the trail didn't start at wallet adress A- you must've bought them from somewhere. Another exchange?

[1]But;; if the case does not involve wallet B (You state: you need to prove you own the 175BTC that were coming from wallet A?) can't you just sign a message from wallet B, which has send 275BTC to (an exchange )
coming from wallet A?

This wouldn't prove you own wallet A, but it'd make it a lot more likely. I think it's the closest you'll be able to prove? Unless- i'm understanding this wrong, and they're accusing you of theft of the contents of wallet A (which were stored on the exchange) which you then withdrawed from the exchange and sent to wallet B?

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Why not? I think there'd be a much better chance of getting a jury/judge to understand such things when you hire someone from a company such as Chainanalysis, as opposed to representing yourself.

You need to import the (uncompressed) private key belonging to the "uncompressed adress", not the adress itself. If you only import the adress, your wallet will become a watch-only wallet, and you will be unable to spend the funds.

I think we're just misunderstanding each other in terms of terminology here.

Reading your second post, i think i misunderstood you in your first post where you talked about a "BIP39 paper wallet", as if you were to perhaps have some sort of bip39 seed, (why mention it otherwise.. was kind of my train of thought.)

So, disregard that, and create a new Electrum wallet -> Import -> and then import the uncompressed private key (should be starting with a  5..) (since you mentioned that is where your funds are stored- on the uncompressed adress?), -> Don't set a password (for now.) -> your funds should show up. --> You should be able to spend them (without electrum asking for a password.)

Okay- Certain things you might need to clarify (or perhaps someone else needs to clarify them for me ):

You have a "BIP39" paper wallet- (What does BIP39 have to do with anything here? You mean you have a seed, or a private key?)
You sucessfully imported the paper wallet- meaning you got the corresponding private key with the adress that holds your balance? (BIP39 passphrases..?)

I'm not sure what BIP38 has to do with it? You can't import BIP38 private keys into electrum? You mean it simply corresponded with a BIP38 key you have wrote down somewhere/decrypted? I guess that would make sense.

That's weird- doesn't electrum only ask for a password when opening the wallet?

A decrypted BIP38 private key is just like any “regular” private key-  so probably not. It sounds to me like you're having a problem with the electrum software itself - namely the part where you forgot your password (?).
(Sweeping an adress won't give you access to the funds on it. FYI. I also don't think there's such a thing as a BIP38 adress.)

Why don't you just reimport the private key/BIP39 seed (?) into a new electrum wallet, and don't set a password on the wallet?

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Is this question a continuation of https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5109960.msg49739885#msg49739885

If so, please provide more information about what exactly is going wrong, and what you have. (Seed, private key, encrypted private key, "encrypted" seed), otherwise, this is just a guessing game. (for me at least.  )

If you don't have a wallet, (wallet.dat), bitcoin core will automatically generate one on first start up. So, that's why you've never had to run the command.

getnewadress simply derives a new private key from the XPRV (if necessary), and then gives that to you (in the form of public key -> adress). ->

No, obviously not. There's no *technical* security risk at all. But yeah, someone's privacy can potentially be heavily reduced by sharing the transaction ID. (Or it might at the very least feel like it gets reduced.)

I guess someone who's really eager could try to social engineer too if the outputs were going to a certain service/exchange, but that's really doubtful.

That's not a fault of the bitcoin protocol though, but rather of the user commited to using a webwallet (in combination with a weak password).

Well, you could start off by explaining what the problem is in the first place.

Did you A. not receive the money in your Bitpay wallet from your customer
or B. is bitpay blocking you from taking out your money (KYC?)

As long as we don't know that, or what kind of access you have to your wallet, (Do you have your private keys?), it's kind of hard to answer.

 If you're stuck on Phone/SMS verifications, you can use either use

https://www.textverified.com/
HQ Non-VOIP US numbers

Or
https://smspva.com/
which has a lot of cheap numbers which also work fine for simple verifications.

I've just both of them for protonmail throwaway SMS verifications, without any problems. Might be worth looking in to. (On SMSPVA you can verify Protonmail accounts for as little as 0.1$)

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Also, i think if you're not on TOR, but just a regular VPN connection-- there shouldn't be any problems registering a new account with just a captcha.
I just created a new account w/ a vpn and a new browser, it only asked me for a captcha.

I guess that might be different for you though, then.

Well yes, but a billion adresses still is absolutely nothing.

See Danny Hamiltons answer to put things in perspective.

2^30 (≈≈a billion) vs 2^160 (all the adresses in existence, well- let's just assume that for simplicity) - the difference is unimaginable.

Replace 115*10^18 by 2^30 ( ≈a billion p second ), and you can perhaps put things into perspective a bit better.

From what i understood when i looked into it a while ago: this is exactly the premise of the InvestBox.

For example: They ask you to hold (buy) 1000 coins of MOON MOON, through their IEO, and if you do: they will give you 4% returns on MOON MOON "for ever". (In MOON MOON), and you can't cash out until after a week or something, or if you partially cash out, you don't get daily returns anymore.

Of course, at some point MOON MOON crashes to 1 sat (yobit runs with the btc funds they received in the IEO), and everyone is left holding 10 bazillion MOON MOON worth nothing.

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Here are two coins which were IEO's on yobit, and which were also on the investBox with the "endless returns" premise.. --
https://yobit.net/en/trade/MOON/BTC#6M
https://yobit.net/en/trade/URANIX/BTC#6M

Needless to say: it didn't end well..

infinite, well not really.

Depending on the source you use, you can calculate the time it would take to generate all possible adresses.
Some more info can be found here-> https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-would-it-take-a-large-computer-to-crack-a-private-key

But, most pools use ASICS only which perform SHA-256 only- so- (someone correct me if i'm wrong here.)- it would be wrong to compare the "computing"/hash power of a pool to generating addresses.

I'm not sure i'm understanding you correctly..  are you registered to the yobit exchange? If so, i think you're automatically subscribed to all of their emails.


If not, they probably got your email adress from another crypto service you are registered to (which either sold it to them or got hacked). I'm not sure if yobit actually does that though (using email lists which do not stem from them), but i wouldn't be surprised.

Sounds like a scam. It seems to me like they're giving you a worthless token, and if you buy more of another worthless token they offer, you get more of the worthless airdropped token.

Don't touch anything from yobit is my advice.

Especially not if it has anything to do with their "InvestBox", as anything related to that is pure cancer, a scam, and should be avoided like the plague..

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This has nothing to do with crypto anymore at this point, it's just a more sophisticated pyramid/ponzi/HYIP scheme.

I'm not so sure what exactly it is that i should take away after skimming through your article.

First; you push some basic data on us; eg most people don't know a lot about crypto. Okay,, who cares, right, we know : P...
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Now comes the interesting part: the results, (which i really can't correlate with the exchange in question.)

You're saying the oodlebit went from 355 followers, to 33k, -- https://twitter.com/oodlebit
And... Their traffic went from 0 to hero, all thanks to you guys.

But, taking a closer look, this all looks very unnatural. To start off, their twitter account:

https://twitter.com/oodlebit/status/1162383361853333504
https://twitter.com/oodlebit/status/1118152950281658368
Look at these comments. Who leaves that? Either bots or people paid to do so.

It's also funny, that even for the most useless promotion posts, you always get between 40-80 retweets.
https://twitter.com/oodlebit/status/1033726436522176512
https://twitter.com/oodlebit/status/1033816355873669120

i think i could set up a formula for that, just saying.


And then the traffic; you said that it received 100k+ visits in the article?
...When we take a look at the oodlebit.com market- https://oodlebit.com/ it is completely dead? These 100k visits converted to 0 customers?

What am i missing.

Telegram is a no-go unless you can let him click a link (iplogger) you won't get any info.

You can ask the admins of the forum you were on to hand over his data (IP, Browser fingerprints), but that probably requires a police report.

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And, this has already been said but i'll emphasize it: You can also check the adress you send money to with https://www.walletexplorer.com/

see if it generates any KYC exchanges, and then you'll probably also need to file a police report first and MAYBE they hand over the data. (That probably actually requires a court filing or something. (I am not a lawyer so i don't know.)

After reading this topic i still don't understand what exactly it is that this would add.

Users with the extension could tip the user (theymos) who verified the bitcointalk.org domain name? Is that all there is to it? Because that's already possible, isn't it.

Wait, where is this money coming from? "Auto-Contributions"...? Does the Brave browser embed some sort of ads client-side into your browser which you get paid for viewing, or..?
If so, that sounds like a stupid business model, if not for the security implications alone, i doubt it is economically sustainable (i can already foresee 1 small botnet depleting the entire BAT network, but i guess this is prevented due to KYC?)

and furthermore, if that's the case, i don't see what Bitcointalk has or would have to do with it. (Will Bitcointalk get a share of the client-sided ads, or implement ads server-side for Brave clients? Is that it?)

Hmm. Not necessarily. eg. If they're using an outdated payment processor, it could also be that they simply did not detect your payment.-- that is if you sent it from a bech adress (bc1.)
I've had this issue quite a few times to me on certain sites, so it's a possibility.

So, it might actually be trivial to give out the site. We could see whether the site is likely to be a scam, or if there might be other issues you're not aware of (as described by DH).

Alas...