Looking at the "sec" field of the various addresses, every single one starts with a K or an L. Are these my mysterious (to me) private keys!?I would never have known without your tip  Indeed those are your private keys. Ok groovy. Having done some manipulation on the pywallet dump (with password) to extract all references to the "sec": field I have what I think are 212 private keys.
Is there nothing else I need from the dump output?
So I install Electum, set a new wallet, tell it to Sweep those keys and I'm good to go?
That is all you need to do. |
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I only use PGP as a safe way of communication not really as a verification method. Bitcoin keys and PGP keys can be sold off with accounts making them unreliable as a verfication.
How do you use it to communicate with people? Is there some sort of messenger or do you mean you send it with a Bitcoin address? If I sign a message from a bitcoin address it's not encrypted I'm assuming (since people can go verify it on a website such as coinig). PGP can be used to encrypt messages. So you can encrypt the text of your message using PGP and then send that text through whatever way you like to another person who can decrypt that message again using PGP. You can also sign messages using PGP to verify that you actually sent that message. A PGP message can be encrypted, decrypted, signed, and verified using a client like GPG. |
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The private keys you want to import cannot be the encrypted_privkey output. You must use dumpwallet with the passphrase to get the unencrypted private keys. Those keys should start with '5', 'K', or 'L'. If they don't, then something is wrong.
You could use Electrum. It is a very good wallet and you can import your private keys there, although I recommend that you actually create a wallet with Electrum and then sweep your exported private keys. That way you can have your Bitcoin in the safety of a HD wallet.
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Part of PGP is also building a Web of Trust. If you trust someone, you can sign their PGP key thus indicating to everyone (if the signature is posted publicly e.g. on a keyserver) that you trust this person. Generally people only sign PGP keys of people that they have actually met in person and verified their identity. The Web of Trust comes into play when you meet someone you don't know but see that someone you trust also trusts that person. Then you could assume that person is also trustworthy. It kind of works like the trust system here works (not DefaultTrust but rather your own trust list and trusting people that are trusted by people you trust).
You can also use PGP to encrypt things for secure messaging. This is actually what it was intended to do and the encryption that PGP uses now has not been broken yet.
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There are several companies out there, but they don't pay as much as adsense. I have been using https://a-ads.com/ and http://www.bitclix.com/. This list might help too. It lists sites where people can advertise, and most of then are sites where you can get ads to advertise on your own website. |
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How about Circle? Last I checked they are similar to Coinbase.
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Where did you find this? I've seen it somewhere but I don't remember.
I think there are a few issues with this image.
Bitcoin isn't necessarily fungible. Apparently people are willing to pay more for newly generated "clean" Bitcoin than they are for used and "dirty" Bitcoin.
Also Bitcoin isn't all that durable. Accidentally hit one button and you could lose all of your Bitcoin forever
I would say that gold is easily transactable. It is fairly easy to hand over a chunk of gold.
Also I would say that gold is not easy to counterfeit. How does one exactly counterfeit gold?
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What legit solutions are on the table to decentralize mining?
You join a pool because the probability of you personally solving a block is astronomically small? You trust a pool to give you a share because so many other people are trusting the same pool. The pool tracks your work and pays you accordingly.
Can we achieve the same result with tweaked model rather than current pools.
For example, a group miners individually using the best possible mining software, where everyone agrees to pay solved blocks to the group. Then we use smart contracts and proof of work mechanisms to enforce this relationship?
Is this possible? If not, what are the legit solutions to this decentralization problem?
I am not an expert (and so my post and my thoughts cannot be taken as a professional ones) but I don't any difference between the two models. Or at least essentially. The new one proposed is another pool when has not an owner but many such and have no fee like the classic pool. All the other things are the same (at last essentially). If this can be called decentralization we can have the same result if can be created new pools which will steal miners to the others "old" pools using incentives or various bonuses. And we will be at the same situation. The difference is that with today's pools you have one miner, the pool. That one pool owner is casting a vote for how the bitcoin protocol moves forward for thousands of contributors. In a model with individual miners everyone still votes. I am going to investigate p2pool maybe it is wHat I am referring to. Yes, but the miners are casting their vote by joining or leaving certain pools. So that means that if a pool does something their miners don't like, the miners leave and then that pool's vote is worth less since it produces less blocks. Either way every single individual miner gets his vote counted. |
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Maybe it is a phishing email?
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You can lock the voting so no one can vote. Or you could just lock the thread and create a new one without a poll.
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Thank you, Saturn643, I have looked at the site for GPG's version, at that site it is not really clear for me what to do. But, that's just me.
I will keep digging around to learn more about BTC beyond the basics I guess I already have.
If you are on linux you should be able to just install GPG through the package manager. The site I linked has the docs and man pages so you can use the command line. If you are on windows I recommend you actually use GPG4USB. It can be portable and it works well and is simple to use. Also, my new website (web host) will allow not only email, but apparently ENCRYPTED email, by that same group offering GPG, and it may be dirt-simple for me to encrypt emails once I learn how. That would be great, I would acquire one of the skills I seek pretty quickly if so.
The simplest way to encrypt emails with GPG/PGP is to just write the email in another text editor, encrypt that text using whatever GPG software you are using, and then copy and paste the encrypted text into the email as the message. There are of course software and extensions to make this easier but that is really the simplest thing to do. I also would like to thank commentators (at this thread and another) for comments about the the Darknet. It looks like a huge part of it involves really sleazy stuff like scammers, spammers, child porn, drug sales and many other dirty activity while offering little in the way of skills acquisition or legitimate business, etc.
Maybe I will learn TOR just for my own "personal privacy jiujitsu", but unless I become convinced otherwise it looks like the Darknet ain't for me.
Yup. The darknet has a lot of shady stuff there. However Tor is useful for privacy and circumventing censorship and not just for darknet stuff. |
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Does this program require a full download of the blockchain? I need another wallet that is light.
It downloads the full blockchain. If you want a light wallet I recommend you checkout Electrum or MultiBit HD |
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[Sidebar: 15 - 18 years ago I was able to use all of this cool software like OLAP, SPSS and PGP for free or cheap, it was all EASY! Now I have not been able to find any of those three for cheap & easy... Software availability is going BACKWARDS in many cases, grr...]
For PGP you can use the GPG softwareAs for learning stuff about Bitcoin, you should of course start with the whitepaper. Then a good place for technical are the developer docs on Bitcoin.org. For Tor you should start with their docs too. |
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It looks great and incredibly lightweight - some wallets can get a bit bulky. I'm not sure if it'd fit the OP's needs, though, because it looks like a pricey USB built for style, something any thief would take if they mugged you and were looking for things to steal.
Well if you roughed it up a bit, removed the identifying logos, and weathered the outside some, the USB would look a lot less appealing and probably less noticeable by thieves. With the logo removed you probably wouldn't be able to even recognize it as a hardware wallet. |
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Bitcoin has been mentioned before by well known youtubers. A couple of months ago Rhett and Link talked about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. They were primarily talking about feathercoin for some reason though.
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You should store them on paper wallets, so do it with bitaddress.org. As long as you have somewhere with the private keys to your Bitcoin address, the Bitcoin is safe. It doesn't matter whether it is in a wallet (really just a collection of private keys) or on a piece of paper.
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If that were a security flaw then simply having private keys is a flaw in itself. A private key is really just a big number, hopefully randomly generated. The thing is is that there is a HUGE range of numbers to choose from for a private key, so the probability of two different people choosing the same number twice is incredibly low (barring any bad implementations). Furthermore, you could theoretically write a program which searches through every single private key possible (it isn't that hard, it is just a big integer and you go sequentially) but the odds of finding a key that corresponds to an address with Bitcoin in it is incredibly low. While doable, it would take an ungodly amount of time to do, on the scale of trillions (or more) of years. This is the basis of this kind of cryptography, that the probability of finding a collision is incredibly low and that to search every single possible private key would take an ungodly amount of time.
tl;dr due to the size of the private key range, this is perfectly fine and safe.
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I really dont know how to earn Bitcoin with this program :/
This is a wallet, not a program to earn bitcoin. You earn Bitcoin elsewhere and send it to this wallet. |
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