I'm willing to take a risk!
Would you like to go out with me?
Lol You are the guy who falls in love with everyone aren't you? : ) There is only one way to find it out! That's nice and thanks for asking serje but you're miles away, even if we were meant for each other it would never works. We must remain star-crossed I'm afraid. x You are wrong in just 6 months I made more than 50.000 km for a girl ... if 50.000 km is not much then I will have to tell you that the length of the earth at the Equator is 40.075 km ... so theoretically I traveled around the world at Equator and a little more ... If you are worth it then I will do it 10 times more than last time without any regrets! serje is probably hoping fabiola! is Fabiola Campomanes (links possibly NSFW). Won't he be surprised when he finds out that she's actually Fabiola Boulanger  |
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does this work on altcoins to?
Which "this" did you mean? Most of the methods in this thread will work on most altcoins which were originally based on Bitcoin software (and that's most, but not all, altcoins). So in short: probably, but it depends on the details... |
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If OP really want to convince us of her gender or promote more females and women in Crypto, post in other forum threads. Go on the Discussion , or speculation, or mining, or Meta thread etc.. and prove and promote there.
I don't recall this thread being started by fabiola! with the intent to prove her gender. She started it by asking if there are other girls into Bitcoin, and why it seemed there are so few. It was, in point of fact, the "scam-alerters" who shifted this towards a well-then-prove-you-are-a-female thread. I don't see any reason she needs to (it's not like she's posting pictures of herself in exchange for loans or something). I happen to think that this kind of thread is perfectly fine in the Beginners & Help section. It demonstrates the wide variety of attitudes towards women on this board, and can inform newbies on the subject (although, granted, those attitudes aren't all that different from many other online communities). It also servers as a warning to newbies on the methods of some scammers. I'd like to think it's at least somewhat welcoming towards woman new to Bitcoin, too. Seems on-topic to me... |
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All the clients for BTC that are not made by BTC developers are wallets for change! Money that you will immediately use! Never keep your full stash of BTC in there! Always keep them encrypted in the core client Nothing personal, but a wide-sweeping statement like this is completely inaccurate. There are a number of (hot-storage) wallets which are nearly as or more secure than the Bitcoin Core client, and offer important features lacking in Bitcoin Core (not to mention cold-storage solutions and hardware wallets, which are considerably more secure for BTC funds). |
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I thought I might be able to help out a little bit here... To download the (encrypted) wallet from blockchain.info, run this from the command line (Linux or Windows, but for Windows you need to install Python 2.x first). python -c "import urllib2,json;f=urllib2.urlopen('https://blockchain.info/wallet/9bb4c672-563e-4806-9012-a3e8f86a0eca?format=json');print json.loads(f.read())['payload']" > wallet.json.aes(Obviously you'll need to change the UUID to match yours first.) For brute-forcing the password, I'd recommend one of two options. If the downloaded file doesn't start with these two characters: {" , and if you've created or modified (e.g. added new receiving addresses) to it at sometime after March, 2012 (when the wallet format changed again), and if you're on (or have easy access to) Linux and are comfortable compiling software, then I'd recommend John the Ripper ("bleeding-jumbo" version). It's faster than the alternative (and much faster with a GPU). Otherwise, I'd recommend btcrecover (course I'm biased since I'm the dev of that one...). It supports some blockchain.info wallet formats that JtR doesn't, and it's easier to set up (no compilation necessary), especially on Windows. The Quick Start is available here: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#btcrecover-tutorial. Let me know if you have any questions about it... |
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I'm not sure what to suggest. All of the key and wallet files you have found so far are either - for the older wallet, or
- are corrupted
is that correct? If you've never made any external backups, than you are at risk for losing a wallet file (that's the same for any wallet software you use), for example, if the HD starts to fail, if the OS has a bug, if malware deletes or encrypts them, or if MultiBit has a bug (I doubt that last one, I'm just listing it for completeness). I think the only thing left to consider is getting some form of professional help. For example, wrt that corrupted wallet file: It's barely possible that someone with protobuf experience might be able to manually resconstruct one or more private keys from it. Another possibility: a professional HD recovery expert might be able to recover additional wallets or key backup files from your HD which your file recovery software missed. If you're interested in this possibility, you should really stop using this HD for anything ASAP; any continued use reduces the chances of finding existing file fragments (especially if it's an SSD). I know this isn't what you wanted to hear... but if a file is gone, and there's no external backup of it... then it's gone. |
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Instead of worrying about the import process, you really need to worry about that second password first. If, for example, your password is 12 characters long, and only has lowercase letters and numbers in it, but is completely random (e.g. generated by a password generator of some sort), than I'm afraid there are far too many combinations (4 billion billion of them) to successfully brute force. Using the fastest available open-source software (John the Ripper with a GPU), and it'd still take you around 10,000 years... 36^12 = 4,738,381,338,321,616,896 So before anything else: Do you have your second password? If not, was it random? |
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PPA and 0.9.3 already installed and running. Why don't "bitcoind getinfo" return version info like normal?
Do you have both bitcoin-qt from the PPA and bitcoind from the Ubuntu repo installed? Do a "dpkg -l bitcoin*", if you have both "bitcoin-qt 0.9.3" and "bitcoind 0.3.24" installed, then do a "sudo apt-get upgrade bitcoind" to upgrade it to the PPA version. why should i need bitcoin-qt? everything's working fine, btw. i have 0.9.3 core and 0.92.3 running just fine and top command shows bitcoind running. i also already have the PPA installed. You're right, you don't need it, I was just trying to guess what might be going on such that you have bitcoin running from the PPA at the same time as having the bitcoind stub from the Ubuntu repo, and this was the best reason I could imagine... As marcus_of_augustus already noted, it shouldn't affect you much. If you want to keep troubleshooting anyways, please run these three commands (while bitcoin is running) and paste the results back here. COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l bitcoin*
file `which bitcoind`
pgrep bitcoin | xargs -Iz ls -l /proc/z/exe
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I went ahead and installed the newest version of mint.
I then reinstalled bitcoin-core through the ubuntu ppa.
Now when I'm trying to run armory it is asking for an installation directory..
does anyone one know where it gets installed through a PPA install?
or am I gonna have to download and install the linux zipped file?
When I installed the bitcoind package from the PPA in LM17, it installed to /usr/bin (so that's the installation directory for the PPA version). My fresh install of Armory was able to automatically locate it there, so it's a little strange that your Armory didn't automatically locate it, but maybe you're not doing a fresh install? Regardless of all of this, I'd just follow etotheipi's instructions, they look best all around to me. |
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Hiii, another girl yey : ) don't worry bout not being smart enough to be a hacker or to fully understand btc, I think we may be wired a lil differently than guys anyway cause it took me ages to understand btc too : )
There are very very few people who fully understand Bitcoin (I know I certainly don't), regardless of their sex... there are plenty of people who may think they do, but most of them are wrong  I think it's possible for most people to understand enough about Bitcoin (with some effort of course) to be capable of using it responsibly. |
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Ok, so I should try sending lots of small transactions to one address? That seems counter-intuitive as it's kind of the cause of the problem in the first place, but I'll take your word for it I think you maybe misunderstood? Instead of trying to clean up the dust by sending yourself a single transaction with 1000 dust inputs, try sending yourself 10 separate transactions each having 100 dust inputs. |
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If you're installing Bitcoin Core for the very first time, it takes about 6-8 hours for the entire blockchain with decent CPU and fast, stable internet.
Like others are saying, install it at night, let it sync, and when you wake up and check on it it should be fully downloaded and synced.
It can take days...I installed bitcoin-q from scratch on a new computer 2 weeks ago and it took over a week. once it is synched your transactions should show up, although doing this makes me uncomfortable (OCD) I've had experiences go both ways, using the same PC and ISP. Part of the problem is that blocks are only downloaded from a single peer, and connecting to a peer with a good (or poor) upload capacity is pretty much a matter of luck. (There are plans to improve on this.) If you do not have bitcoin core set up and synched, and you absolutely must do a transaction right away, try something like multibit. It does not need the whole core synched to work. there are torrents that have the core all downloaded and ready to go, but I do not have the necessary skills to determine if they are corrupt or not. could be full of malwares  tl;dr my advice; be patient, if you cant, get multibit. No arguments with respect to MultiBit, but you don't have anything to worry about when it comes to downloading a bootstrap.dat file (it's just a data file, not something you "install"). For more details on why it's safe, take a look at the thread I mentioned earlier. |
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The important parts are that you can follow Steps 1 (Installation) and 5 (Running btcrecover) from the Tutorial. The other steps I can try to help you out with. Try to describe everything you remember about your password, and anything you think you may have messed up while typing it in (in other words, any typos you think you may have had). Don't use specifics, e.g. if you know your password contained the word "secret", just substitute in another word in your description. I'm familiar enough with btcrecover that I can finish the other steps off without too much difficulty (I hope ). |
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Ah, much better  (iamanewbie: to create a wallet file, just copy and paste the text, including the "{", everything in-between, and the "}", from your email into a notepad file.) |
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sorry first i have not understand
now i have copy all the entire text (starting with "{ guid" and ending with "}" in Import Wallet section but say incorect password - so this cant be used
i need somehow to import the private key first
You need the password of the wallet. That wallet is encrypted it cannot be imported in blockchain.info if you don't know the password. I think crazy-pilot is partly right. The wallet isn't encrypted with a main password, but it is still encrypted with the second password. In order to import the wallet, it looks like you'll need to: 1. Add a second password to the new blockchain.info account, this second password must match the second password of the wallet you're trying to import. 2. Import the wallet as described above. |
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One option is btcrecover, it's a free & open source password recovery tool you could try. You will need to do a bit of reading to get it set up and running though. If you'd like to try recovering it yourself, the Tutorial and the Quick Start are here: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#btcrecover-tutorialIf you have any questions, feel free to ask (I'm the dev of that tool). Good luck... |
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which step i need follow to can add this key?
Did you see my question and comment above? Do you have the entire text (starting with "{ guid" and ending with "}"? If so, you should copy and paste the entire thing into the "Import Wallet" page.
I think this will replace whichever wallet you currently have in your account. It's a new account with nothing in it, is that correct? |
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i have the shared key, because this was together with the private key when i exported from blockchain unencrypted (and saved in my email)
first i will import again somehow to my new blockchain account, later hope i will remember my second password for tranzaction
--so please how can i import in blockchain if the site Error importing private key: Unknown Key Format
Do you have the entire text (starting with "{ guid" and ending with "}"? If so, you should copy and paste the entire thing into the "Import Wallet" page. You'll still need to figure out your second password before you can access your funds, of course. Edited to add: if you do have the entire text, than you do have your identifier. It's immediately following the "guid" |
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i dont changed anything in debugging but i cant add this key to blockchain - Error importing private key: Unknown Key Format
how can i add ?
Are you sure it is the private key? I think this is a public key. How did you get it from blockchain.info? Pretty sure. It's Base64, so it's not in a "standard" format, and it's exactly the same length as a blockchain.info encrypted private key that I have here in a test wallet. |
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this is the full lenght private key which i saved ...
In that case, it's the right length to be a private key encrypted using blockchain's "second password" method. You won't need the main password, but you will need the second password. Did you make any changes to the "Debugging" settings in your account? In particular, if you changed the "PBKDF2 Iterations" setting, you will also need that. In addition to your second password, you will also need something called your "shared key" which is stored on the Blockchain servers or in a full wallet backup (it is used as an encryption salt). I assume that Blockchain will require you to somehow prove ownership of your account before they will provide this. Do you know your second password? Did you use any of the Blockchain options to take a backup of your wallet? |
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