Let me guess... someone told you to "run this command on the console"?

Bitcoinmixer.eu is a SCAM! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5195145.0

They're basically trying to steal your money. Thankfully, it looks like they're stupid and gave you an incorrect formatted command and it failed to run. The command they've given you is attempting to download a script from their server that is designed to compromise your wallet/seed/private keys etc.

To be safe, you should do as akhjob has suggested, create a new wallet and more your funds immediately.

Personally, I think that $50 really isn't much in the grand scheme of things... I find it odd that people will nickle and dime on this stuff when they have potentially thousands of dollars worth of cryptocurrency that they need to protect.

It was just like when I started in aviation... looking at headsets... people will hunt for a deal and opt for a budget headset for $100 that has terrible quality, is uncomfortable, doesn't have active noise cancelling and will likely be ruined after a year or 2... completely forgetting that they're about to spend a minimum of $10k-$15K getting a licence (vast amounts more if they're going commercial). I spent ~US$600 on a top of the line noise cancelling headset about 10 years ago... I have since put about 1500 hrs on it, including 1000 hrs flying in the tropics... still in good shape and working perfectly. I replaced the ear seals twice and only had the cable changed because I accidentally damaged it when closing a door. The old budget one fell to pieces while I wasn't even using it. It was packed in a protective bad in storage and the cable and ear pads basically just disintegrated.

Given I've easily spent US$50,000 on my flight training/medicals/exams/renewals etc flying aircraft that at times cost $300/hr to fly... that US$600 was but a drop in the ocean. Same with hardware wallets... you want an easy, reliable way to securely store a "decent amount" of crypto? Hardware wallet for ~$50.

I was the same as most when I started out, I looked at these $100+ units and was like "NOPE!"... when I had like $200 worth of crypto... once my holdings increased to a point where losing it would equate to significant financial loss, I ordered a Nano S... AND a Trezor. I don't regret either purchase.

To know what happened, we would need more information like a transaction ID, but It's up to you if you want to provide it. It won't harm your security, just your privacy.

Otherwise, do as AdolfinWolf suggested, check your transaction ID from Electrum (and/or the address you sent to) on a blockexplorer:

https://live.blockcypher.com/
https://blockchair.com/
https://blockstream.info/

See if the transaction is "known" by the network.

It does...

Go checkout: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bitcoin\Bitcoin-Qt

There are a couple of "proxy" and "tor" related settings there... although I believe they should be reflected in the "Settings -> Options -> Network" tab within the GUI.

You can try something like the Satochip... I've been playing with one and it's not too bad. Granted if requires a USB smartcard reader... but the whole setup, card+reader+postage cost me like €40 as a special deal. Currently a card is €25 (reader is €15), so if you already have a smartcard reader it is a fairly good budget option. I queried them a while back on how common smartcard readers are and it turns out that in Belgium (where I believe the Satochip devs are based) they're very common because of the country's national "eID" system.

At the end of the day... how much did you spend on your phone? on your PC? Even if you only have 0.1 BTC to store, then $50 is less than 10% of your total holdings.


They have a thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181719.0
Website with online store here: https://satochip.io/

The only places that charge additional fees are Exchanges, Gambling Sites and other web-based service providers... who are obviously centralised and use "custodial" wallets.

Get yourself a copy of Electrum here: https://electrum.org/#download

It has a lot of features that allow full control of everything... it's lightweight and relatively user friendly and there is a fairly active community here that will answer any questions you may have: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=98.0

It's also in active development: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum

So any issues identified with it get fixed promptly.

Weird... it's working perfectly here:



Anyone else having issues?

So you are you seeing a screen like this?



Are you not able to click the "Choose..." button and/or edit the "default_wallet" text? If you can't, it sounds like a fake wallet. Do as the others suggested and check where you downloaded from.

If you can click "Choose..." and/or edit the "default_wallet" text, then you HAVE used Electrum before, and the application is simply attempting to open the old wallet (wallet files are not deleted if you delete/uninstall Electrum as it stores wallet files in your "user data" folder, not in the program directory.

No. All transactions will require a fee to be able to propagate across the network as most nodes will reject 0 fee transactions. Unless you know a miner/mining pool willing to include transactions on your behalf, 0 fee transactions are a thing of the past.

What you want is a wallet that allows completely customisable fees... that way you can set whatever you want (greater than 0 obviously!), like 1 sat/byte. Plenty of good wallets allow this. Are you wanting desktop or mobile or hardware? Full Node or SPV?

And I've been waiting 2/3's of mine!

Liverpool are just playing the beautiful game well, beautifully! Even with the "ugly" games, the cramped schedule and the loss of a number of players to injury (Matip, Fabinho, Lovren, Keita, Milner etc) they have managed to grind out wins... Unlike previous seasons, they have not slipped up and dropped points against the middle and lower order teams... something that Citeh and Leicester have done and the current table reflects that.

Going to be a tough match against Wolves... N.E.S. has his players believing in themselves... Jimenez is on a hot streak at the moment, so I think our run of clean sheets will be broken. Still, I'll back the redmen to take a 2-1 victory.

Chelsea v Arsenal will likely be a pretty dour affair... neither Lampard nor Arteta can afford a loss, so I expect the game to be pretty defensive... Low scoring... either 0-0 or 1-0 to Chelsea on this one.

Depending on what you require in terms of requests/sec... I have always had fairly reliable service from Blockcypher: https://www.blockcypher.com/dev/

The free tier is 3 requests/sec and up to 200 requests/hr... Limits reset on the hour. You can read more here: https://www.blockcypher.com/dev/bitcoin/#rate-limits-and-tokens

Haven't used it for a while tho, as I have my own full node and just use bitcoin-cli for what I need/want.

The problem is that while, theoretically, any BSV you transfer could be "replayed" on the BCH chain (there was no replay protection implemented if I understand correctly)... the BSV that you send back from the exchange is most likely not going to be from the same address as the one you accidentally sent the BCH to, as exchanges tend to use "pool" addresses. In other words, coins you withdraw do not come from your own deposit address.

Because of this, the address that the BSV will be sent from, most likely won't have any BCH associated with it... so replaying the transaction won't return coins on the BCH network.

Additionally, it seems that exchanges and some wallets actually implemented their own "in house" replay protection (I would guess by using UTXOs unique to BSV and/or BCH network in transactions) to prevent people getting "extra" coins by withdrawing BSV and getting bonus BCH (and vice versa)

If the fee is not explicitly stated by the API, you can calculate it yourself very easily as it is simply the difference between the total of vIn amouts and vOut amounts for a transaction.

In the example above:

vIn = 0.03602039
VOut = 0.01 + 0.02601813 = 0.03601813

Fee = vIn - vOut = 0.03602039 - 0.03601813 = 0.00000226

Ahhhh I see where your confusion has come from... one of my posts to another user regarding attempting a password recovery on a blockchain.info web wallet.

That's not misinformation, it is just you're reading solutions to different problems/issues and thinking that they apply to you.

And yes, it can be confusing for newbies seeing "blockchain.info/.com" and thinking that it IS the blockchain, as opposed to a commercial company trying to look more important than they are... It is not an accident that this company deliberately chose this domain name.  


I'm not sure where you got the idea that ALL wallets use wordlists? Some do (Electrum and Mycelium for instance) and some don't (Bitcoin Core). Given you believe that you were using Bitcoin-Qt/Bitcoin Core, then this method does not apply to your situation.

Also, given that the wordlist generates an effective "alphabet" of 2048 "characters" as there are 2048 words in the BIP39 wordlist... your odds of "quasi bruteforce guessing" it are orders of magnitude worse than attempting to bruteforce a "simple" 12 character password using uppercase/lowercase/numbers which is a 62 character "alphabet".


No, the only thing needed to download a blockchain.info (now known as blockchain.com) wallet file (note: it is NOT actually a wallet.dat file, it's a text file in JSON format usually called "wallet.aes.json") is the wallet ID (and your "2FA" code if you had it enabled), as per the btcrecover docs:

Again, given that you're adamant that you were using Bitcoin Core, this solution does not apply to your case.


That is a generalised recover guide that applies to a lot of different wallet software/applications. It is NOT specific to Bitcoin-Qt/Bitcoin Core. It even suggest that here:

So, that thread is more aimed at someone who has access to a wallet or private keys or some other form of "backup" (like a seed mnemonic)... and aren't quite sure exactly what "format" that backup is in and/or what wallet software/application they may need to use their backup with. Your situation is completely different, as you have nothing except possibly a broken hard drive.


The short answer is that if you don't have any backups of your original wallet.dat, or any way to recover the wallet.dat from your old drive, then your wallet is lost forever. There is no way to reconstruct it from any other information.


You click the "quote" button on the post you are trying to quote.

Rats... Was just a fraction too slow... I knew the answer straight away, but trying to login on my phone with all the 2FA login crap slowed me down

Intent counts for a lot... So, while you may not have actually managed to make any money selling fake reviews and you admit that what you did was wrong, that doesn't change the fact that you attempted to sell fake reviews.

This makes you untrustworthy in the eyes of the people who have left you negative trust ratings.

You already attempted this back in 2017 (not 2016)... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1808435.0

And you already got a red tag from Vod for asking for a non-collateral loan. You then pop up after not having posted in ~3 years since your failed loan and then try to get another loan. I'm not sure why you expected that this time would yield different results?


There is no proof that the original loan request was ever filled... or repaid. The address you posted never received any payments for the 0.00578 BTC you were asking for (~$50 worth at the time) around the date of that thread being posted.

Best of luck getting your loan filled.

AFAIK, Armory doesn't generate private keys in the same way as BIP32 type wallets etc... It is using a proprietary system. So, I don't think you'll be able to export a "Master Public Key" from Armory, and have other wallet apps/libraries reproduce the same keys/addresses as your Armory wallet.

You options would then be to generate keys/addresses externally to Armory, and then import them to Armory... or you would need to use a different wallet that supported the BIP32 standard that I believe bitwasp is using.... that way, you would be able to export a "Master Public Key" from your wallet... and Bitwasp should be able to derive the same public keys/addresses without needing to expose the underlying seed/private keys.

Unless you want to try sending it to some sort of data forensics lab, then basically your quest is over.


As far as Bitcoin-qt/Bitcoin Core is concerned, there is no such thing as a UUID/wallet ID number... and you certainly can not retrieve a copy of the wallet.dat from the blockchain itself. I'm not sure what you have been reading, but this information is incorrect.

A "wallet.dat" is simply a Berkeley Database data file... it (normally) contains a number of private keys (and in more recent "HD" wallets, it will contain a "seed") and information relating to those private keys (that is to say the matching public keys and derived addresses and transaction history relating to these.

The private keys are NOT stored in the blockchain in any shape or form. You absolutely can NOT recover these if your copy of the wallet.dat is gone.


Again, this is incorrect. 12 or 24 word recovery phrases (aka "seed mnemonics") were generally introduced to wallets following the BIP39 standard. BIP39 was first proposed: 2013-09-10. It certainly wasn't around int he first year of Bitcoin as you believe you were operating.

In any case, even today, Bitcoin Core does NOT adhere to this standard, so there is NO 12/24 word recovery phrase that you can use to recover your wallet.dat. If you have/had a 12/24 word recovery phrase, then it is for a completely different wallet.

The python-based "btcrecover" can be used (amongst other things) to try and brute force a forgotten password from a wallet.dat that had a password set... it can also be used to discover a missing word or two of a 12/24 word recovery phrase (assuming you have other information like an address that was generated from the seed derived from the 12/24 word phrase). It will NOT be useful to recover a wallet.dat.


None of that info will be useful to you. Your wallet is NOT stored on the blockchain... there is nothing to narrow down. Transactions contain very little metadata, and certainly nothing that identifies what wallet it came from.


Correct.


Again, you're talking about UUID and/or Wallet IDs and/or "accounts"... these are NOT concepts that relate to Bitcoin-qt/Bitcoin Core.

You're either referencing wallet IDs from blockchain.info (now blockchain.com) or some other web-based wallet... impossible to know which without having the actual ID... If you had an account or id or something, then I am fairly certain that you were NOT using Bitcoin-qt/Bitcoin Core.

Have you looked through old emails to see if you have anything from Blockchain.info? One of those might contain a wallet id number. Or you can try options here: https://login.blockchain.com/#/help (if you have access to old email accounts originally used with blockchain.info)

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