Can someone explain what a fractal is?
Its a mathematical term for self similar functions. They hold similar patterns at different resolutions. |
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Is it possible passphrases are truncated at a certain length?
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cbeast -
Probably totally irrelevant, but I ran into a similar situation with Bitcoin QT.
Despite copying and pasting (versus manually typing) my private key passphrase every time, from a source document, I woke up one morning to a wallet that was rejecting that passphrase.
I had a lot. And I mean a lot ... of Bitcoins in that wallet. It was stored offline.
Different issue, but strange solution.
I went through every single character and tried its inverse. Like this:
Known and quadruple verified passphrase which was copied and pasted:
uPjKmN
Tried:
UPjKmN
then...
upjKmN
then...
uPjkmN
then...
uPjKmn
Switching the case of each character each time i re-tried.
and that worked.
It shouldn't have.
Immediately got rid of QT and put all my sh*t on paper wallets.
ummm... that's actually very similar to my passphrase. It was THAT simple, though much longer. And yes, it was over 100 BTC and they are not all mine. |
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I would have taken a completely different approach. This just looks like MyBitcoins wallet with teen angst. A better approach to anonymizing coins is to set up a matrix consisting of random clusters of computers creating multisig transactions and loading each other's wallets with a specified amount and nLockTimed as a failsafe. They would swap intermediary keys in a circle one way, and the coins the other. I think it would be a nightmare to code something like that, but that's the nature of the beast.
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6Pf is the correct format for bitaddress.org I was looking at something else.
6Pf means EC-multiplied keys without compression, I will look into the code and see if I can find anything unusual.
I appreciate that. It just seems impossible I could have erred in such a way while sober. |
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I don't get Dark Wallet. Few people care about anonymity, but many people fear it will empower criminality. The blowback to Dark Wallets may be outright banning of PoW coins. Maybe the developers are bullish on PoS?
Why how and who would outright ban them? Why is marijuana banned with a death sentence in most countries? Bitcoin threatens banks the same way herbs threatens Big Pharm. Bitcoin the payment system doesn't threaten law enforcement any more than PayPal, but Bitcoin the anonymous currency does. See the difference? I don't think weed is threatened with a death sentance in most countries. Sure in some but not most. And cash is more anonymous than bitcoin if you want it to be. Cash isn't anonymous. Don't conflate anonymity with fungibility. Besides, cash may be banned for large purchases soon. If I meet someone on the street and give them some money that seems pretty annoymous. Not if I'm a cop and you are doing something bad. Maybe I'll leave it at a location for him to pick up then. You can probably say nothing is anonymous if you want to nitpick. That's not what I'm saying. Cash is private, not anonymous. You can increase privacy by risking control and dropping off the money, but you may lose it completely. OTOH, the person picking up the money is then at risk if you are the cop. |
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 I hope Igorr got out alright. |
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Coloured coins won't create demand for bitcoins, because they generally only need a few satoshi to do their job. Hence they won't cause the price to skyrocket.
There's no way to know this. In the fullness of time, colored coins may be used for everything from rent agreements, air miles, stock trades, to backing every fiat currency on the planet. Bitcoin would still have to skyrocket and crash, but overall climb rapidly. |
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I don't get Dark Wallet. Few people care about anonymity, but many people fear it will empower criminality. The blowback to Dark Wallets may be outright banning of PoW coins. Maybe the developers are bullish on PoS?
Why how and who would outright ban them? Why is marijuana banned with a death sentence in most countries? Bitcoin threatens banks the same way herbs threatens Big Pharm. Bitcoin the payment system doesn't threaten law enforcement any more than PayPal, but Bitcoin the anonymous currency does. See the difference? I don't think weed is threatened with a death sentance in most countries. Sure in some but not most. And cash is more anonymous than bitcoin if you want it to be. Cash isn't anonymous. Don't conflate anonymity with fungibility. Besides, cash may be banned for large purchases soon. If I meet someone on the street and give them some money that seems pretty annoymous. Not if I'm a cop and you are doing something bad. |
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Just as a sanity check, does your BIP38 address starts with 6PR or does it start with 6PY ?
It starts with a 6Pf |
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I always spend my gambling winnings at Halal restaurants.
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I don't get Dark Wallet. Few people care about anonymity, but many people fear it will empower criminality. The blowback to Dark Wallets may be outright banning of PoW coins. Maybe the developers are bullish on PoS?
Why how and who would outright ban them? Why is marijuana banned with a death sentence in most countries? Bitcoin threatens banks the same way herbs threatens Big Pharm. Bitcoin the payment system doesn't threaten law enforcement any more than PayPal, but Bitcoin the anonymous currency does. See the difference? I don't think weed is threatened with a death sentance in most countries. Sure in some but not most. And cash is more anonymous than bitcoin if you want it to be. Cash isn't anonymous. Don't conflate anonymity with fungibility. Besides, cash may be banned for large purchases soon. |
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I don't get Dark Wallet. Few people care about anonymity, but many people fear it will empower criminality. The blowback to Dark Wallets may be outright banning of PoW coins. Maybe the developers are bullish on PoS?
Why how and who would outright ban them? Why is marijuana banned with a death sentence in most countries? Bitcoin threatens banks the same way herbs threatens Big Pharm. Bitcoin the payment system doesn't threaten law enforcement any more than PayPal, but Bitcoin the anonymous currency does. See the difference? |
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I don't get Dark Wallet. Few people care about anonymity, but many people fear it will empower criminality. The blowback to Dark Wallets may be outright banning of PoW coins. Maybe the developers are bullish on PoS?
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Looks like some serious shorting going on - the sum of swaps on finex is 9.5K (if I remember well yesterday it was 8.5 then 9 then again 8.5).
Exactly, I just commented about it. Seem surprising to me - why shorting now, not a couple days before? Doesnt seem surprising to me. The price is up a bit, and not with that much volume, so its a "safe" time to short. That's just what "they" want you to think. |
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Methinks the "BDD" is generating hits on the term BDD.
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They did just announce the cast for the new Star Wars film. Coincidence?
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Ayn Rand would spin in her grave to hear her ideas spun into a religion. Objectivism is a materialist conception.
That much I agree with her about ha ha
It's not all that objective. It's more like Objectiveology now. |
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always make sure you have actual private keys and test them.
I am certain I tested it. The pw wasn't complex. I only wrote a hint because that's all I needed after testing it. We'll see someday if anyone else had this happen. Like I said though I may have been tricked into thinking I verified the pw because the older versions of bitaddress.org will sometimes just randomly pop up a bitcoin key pair. I should have double tested it but who does that? They usually ask you to enter the pw twice when you create them. |
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Thanks for the suggestion. I removed that bit of code, but still got the incorrect passphrase alert when I tried to decrypt. I've spent over 20 hours casually trying to manually brute force my simple pw. It was a keyboard peck type pw similar to qwerty only longer. |
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