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Curiously, there are now several values for bitcoin.
There is bitcoin value as it is swept into new private keys.
Then there is the value of bitcoin in private keys for which the two alt coins, BTH and BTG, have not been retrieved.
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Hi,
My brother died last year, and I knew him to be a bitcoin miner. Recently I have put myself through a crash course in mining, and even became a miner myself.
In searching, I found a 20 word mnemonic that led me to ~$250 in BTC & $40 BCH at blockchain.info
I've looked for, but haven't found any wallet.dat files, wallet.*, login.*, coin, blockchain, and a few others I can't remember now. I haven't found a hardware wallet.
I'm waiting for coinbase customer service to help me get into the account that I know he had there (unknown if there's anything in it).
I know he started mining in October of `13 through mid/late `14. He was probably inactive between then and his death in October of `16.
Can anyone suggest other places on the web to search, any other search terms for his computer, names of software wallets he may have used?
Any help would be appreciated
By sending a copy of the death certificate and/or letters of testimony to the email providers you get his email history unlocked. You would want to establish which mining pool he used, maybe from his emails. Then look that the type of mining equipment he had. From the type of equipment, you figure hash rate. Then going back to mining difficulty in the timeframe mentioned, you can estimate the return. Maybe the $250 is all there was. If say he was using a single nice graphics card for the timeframe mentioned, could be. But you are using the $250 as present day value. Back in that time frame btc = 200 to 1000, very roughly. |
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He's very blunt. He doesn't care about political correctness. That's one attitude his admirers surely lIke about him. People want would want you to call a spade a spade...lol. But personally I think some of his views are quite radical.
Other than his views on immigration, his policies are more or less in line with the other mainstream Republicans. .... Maybe, but his actions are different from mainstream. Because they would do nothing, and he is doing things, one issue after another. |
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I have this question now. What will happen next? Is the bubble they are talking about is about to come? How many days shall we wait? It just come up to my mind seeing BTC rising so rapidly straight up to $16,000 and which I think will still go up and will soon reach $20,000/BTC. What will happen next year? Will it drop down? Or will still go up? Go-up upto $50,000?
What will you do now before the year end? Sell it? of buy more?
I'm not sure if bitcoin is going up, or fiat is going down. Bitcoin is not the bubble. It's the pin. |
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This is the first wave of the masses guys. It's pulling people out of the woodwork for sure. 2018 might easily see 40-50k/BTC. I have a hard time even saying that b/c it seems nuts to me, having been in this so long, but it's really looking like it's going to be the case and it's really not showing any chance of slowing down. At this point, you're not going to be able to short this, there is way more fiat than there is crypto right now, and you'll be margin called so fast. It'd be a horrible idea.
As it huge pump now what's do you think in 2018?
I think we can see BTC price up to 30k $ the next year. Yeah, BTC supply is limited but it could be strong trend to alts the next year There are 14 days left in December. 30k is not impossible THIS YEAR, given the recent display of market eagerness for bitcoin. |
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There are plenty of examples of "Provably Fair" blackjack... crypto-games.net has BJ on their site... the basic process works like this: ...... AFTER the hand, you will be shown the unencrypted server seed... which you can then SHA256 and prove that it matches the SHA256 hash that you were shown BEFORE the hand to prove that the site hasn't changed anything... = Provably Fair = they cannot change the results. ... I agree and appreciate your explaining the method. |
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Is it possible to create a similar "capture" program that simply captures and returns the btc back to the sender, along with some sort of message that can be used to flag the transaction? This way, over time, it will be easier to determine the source of the code.
This can be done. Great idea. This would require in real time, immediately after the theft, determining the relation between the private and public key, then deducing the private key, then sending a transaction with a higher fee. That would be a program. It would have to be activated by a signal from the victim, and he would have to notice the theft pretty quickly and log the request. I would note that there could be any number of algorithms each with a variety of constants which could be used to deduce the private key from the public key. Once the bad guys knew these counter attacks existed, they would go to more subtle algorithm. |
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I can't understand what you say.
How about bitdice? They insist it is provably fair!
Yes you can understand. I ignore bit dice, doesn't matter what they say to take your money. |
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Hi everyone.
A few years ago I gave my brother BTC for XMAS. He hasnt touched it since and was using Bitcoin QT at the time. We are looking to transfer the funds to a hardware wallet, but when getting him to upload his wallet.dat file, we ran into a snag. It seems he didn't do an actual back up of the wallet app, and instead, had a time machine back up of the computers hard drive made, and when he gained access, we grabbed the wallet.dat file from his bitcoin folder. When loading it into the app on my computer, the funds are coming up as 0. I checked the address on blockchain.info and the funds are still there.
Any suggestions? Can you make a usable backup via dragging and dropping the .dat file as opposed to backing it up manually?
Bitcoin Client Software and Version Number: Bitcoin Core 0.15.1
Operating System: OSX 10.13.1
System Hardware Specs: 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 with 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 and 50 GB free hard drive space.
Description of Problem: Bitcoin Core isnt loading wallet.dat file.
I have moved wallet.dat files back and forth many times. However, they were files generated and known compatible with the Core version I had in use. Note. You have 50 GB, the block chain files are now about 130GB. Therefore I don't know your problem is correctly stated. "The funds are coming up as 0", but what if it isn't synced and cannot ever get synced because of your storage limitations? The conclusion "Core isn't loading wallet.dat file" does not seem the right conclusion. At least from these descriptions. Can you look at transactions or past history? |
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How comes Blockchain.info generates private keys using block hashes or tx id instead of random numbers. Who had the privilege to change the key generation methods?
Nobody said they did. Maybe it was a hacked wallet, or a key logger running on a computer whee the transaction occurred. |
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Hi
who can write or sell (or become a partner) provably fair a blackjack game?
Cannot exist, some people count the deck. Some dealers count the deck. "Fairest" is 4 deck shuffle. |
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Very interesting technical story.
Luckily that in today's age, most generated keys are derived from a high degree of randomness... How do you know for sure? |
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I like your bullishness but I think we're still far off from BTC hitting 1 million, ie. I think there are more pressing matters that should be solved first.
Without having a proper scaling solution widely deployed anything below 0.0001 BTC is effectively impossible to transact. In my opinion thinking about increasing decimal precision will only make sense once we're close to making dust transactable again.
Once we're there my educated guess would be that such a fork could be deployed fairly undisputed, as I don't see any reasons for contentious camps about decimal precision arising...
Decimal Point Rising.... A movie title? |
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This is how you do it: 1. Buy a hardware wallet 2. On it, generate a wallet from a 24-word seed (or fewer words) Extra steps for the ultra paranoid: -. Format (reset) the hardware wallet, then restore it from the 24-word seed. -. Test with a small sum that you can receive and send Bitcoins from your new wallet. 4. Create a story which can help you remember all the seed words in order (this is a mnemonic technique, http://www.vocabulink.com/article/how-to-write-a-memorable-mnemonic-story) 5. Memorize said story, test yourself that you know it after 4 hours, 1 day, 4 days, and after that weekly. 6. After one month, format (reset) the hardware wallet, then restore it from the 24-word seed that lays in your memory. 7. If you've been successful until now, move your funds to the hardware wallet, then format it again and throw any recording of the seed words that you might have laying around the house. Your savings are safer than ever now. Having had people very close to me who I had the pain of watching them, through unrelated medical issues, lose their mental abilities bit by bit, I cannot agree with your conclusions. You have a method that might be described as "hoping for the best." Better is to hope for the best, but plan for the worst. |
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3) Updated backups on SD cards and DVD disks so to keep them 'active'. I'm told cards can age and files get corrupted. I'm thinking DVDs should have a reasonable life. Flash may indeed deteriorate after a few years but also DVDs aren't immune. But with quality media, for example Verbatim, I'd put my bets on DVDs being more likely to be OK after 10 years. If you want to look further into that, there's also the M-Disc disc variants, which claim to be more durable than "normal" discs. Also, I think in general Bluray (not LTH) might be more durable than DVD. If - if this is seriously a discussion about how to store a couple hundred characters or less (each private key being 50 or so characters in length).... This is bat shit crazy talk. Storage media are not necessary or optimal for less than some thousands of characters. Get an old manual typewriter and some high quality paper. |
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My goal:
-Create a wallet on a clean computer (perhaps a Linux live CD)
-The wallet must support many currencies. At least some of the main ones. BTC, BCH, ETH, ETC, BTG etc.
-It needs to create the seed with 24 words (like Trezor)
-Wipe the computer, or move to new computer
-Restore all my addresses, and allow for transferring money out of my wallet using the 24 word seed. (This is mainly for testing purposes).
-Laminate a piece of paper with the seed on it, put it in a vault and forget about it for a few years.
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Why should a method be 24 words, and why should it be applicable to a great variety of coins? Your piece of paper could just as well have the various private keys, which would have no issue with recovery whatsoever. And even better, no trust in third parties is required. |
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If you ever have any serious concerns about the computer/wallet you are using its best to make sure things are all clean before transferring any more coins. Electrum makes it easy in that you can use ANY computer and your SEED words to quickly create a new wallet on a "known" clean machine and Electrum file. Then using the known clean wallet you can make transactions safely. Your absolute best bet when downloading Electrum files is to VERIFY the file download via the GPG signature. Thomas signs all official releases and its positive/certain you have a good file if you VERIFY that way. At this time I want to present my opinion (others differ) that it would be better to never have your SEED containing wallet online. Use a cold wallet or hardware wallet. At 9000 US dollars a coin thieves are rampant online, and honestly they are damn good at what they do. Just how it is.
When it comes to being right or wrong there is no democracy. I would add that when people attempt to create "adequate security" by layering additional complexity on top of existing systems, it often backfires. Look at all the issues people seem to be having with 2FA and Electrum. But 2FA was supposed to improve security, right? Something to ponder there. |
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Can someone help me extracting my Bitcoin Gold from a 2fa Electrum Wallet step by step on Skype? I can offer 7% of the amount of Bitcoin Gold I manage to extract in return (not much, 7% of like 2,15, but it's still money), I find this process really difficult and I don't wanna lose my Bitcoin Gold
I suggest you take one private key with a small balance as of the 10-24 date, and work only with that one key. Get it done and verify success. Then do another. Really, there is no rush. Otherwise, wait and expect that better means to retrieve the coins will become available. Think about it. If the BTG developers want to success, they need people to be able to get their coins and use them. |
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Wow  Amazing discovery of a amazing coup. The guy who made this and the guy which discovered it are pure genious. I am really excited to find out in which priv key generation code this thing is implemented. hes really a genius and an expert in hes field,its one of a kind to find such discovery but what made me think is how many people in crypto can do this kind of key generating code hacking,hope this one will alarm the authorities to make precautionary measures. There is reason to suspect, and to look for more such issues. |
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6. Salaries & Wages.
As far as I remember, mostly taken care of by the Bitcoin foundation. [/quote]No, they have like $1000USD to their name these days... |
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