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561  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: BTC private key generates wrong address. on: October 31, 2023, 05:51:30 PM
Is it possible that electrum android app uses a different architecture to generate a public address now or it had a bug that generated a wrong address for then?
If there's one major bug like that, it'll be included in the release notes: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES
I didn't find any, but try to search thoroughly.

It's always been the same as the desktop version and using the standard algorithm Bitcoin uses: ECDSA with Secp256k1 curve.
It'll derive a "compressed" pubKey from WIF with compressed flag (your 'L' prvKey) and create a legacy address from it if a script type isn't appended before the privKey.


My assumption is the same as the other first two replies, your address may be derived from the uncompressed public key.
An alternative tool is Ian Coleman's "compression tool":  https://github.com/iancoleman/keycompression
If you're not worried about privacy, you can use the web version, of course, only use your public key.
Otherwise or if the above is true, use an Air Gap machine to get the uncompressed versions of your keys/address.
562  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Is there any company,a that recycles wallets - 100% honest on: October 31, 2023, 04:43:29 PM
-snip-
Isn't it so that if these are really large funds they will say that it is impossible, and then leave the case for 1 year and then recover it by themselves?
Is this about unrecoverable passwords of wallet.dat or other wallet files that are already sent to a "company"?
And by saying "company that recycles wallets", you mean any password-recovery services?

If so, then we can never be assured of since those are entirely trust-based.
But if you want assurance that the scenario wont happen, you can select the company with an option to send your wallet file's "hash" instead. (search their options)
In that case, they can try to bruteforce your password without getting access to the actual wallet file.
563  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: mempool on: October 30, 2023, 07:23:48 AM
-snip- The transaction link they gave me sends me to mempool.
Can you cross-check the "transaction id" txid on other blockexplorers to see if the transaction is not exclusively in the link that they've gave you.
The TXID is the 64 hex characters that's referencing your transaction.

Some blockexplorers:
If it's in the three blockexplorers above, chances that it's an issue with cryptospend is very high unless the deposit address is incorrect.

I did a quick Google search and saw that cryptospend has a quite low trust rating in Trustpilot while the other has good standing.
Perhaps you're experiencing one of those issues in the negative reviews; in that case, only their support can help you since it's already sent to them.
564  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Understand how electrum wallets work on: October 30, 2023, 05:48:07 AM
Looks like Electrum consolidated my UTXO and created one UTXO and sent that UTXO to a change address. There is manual way to do this is in electrum which I need to learn or else electrum does that for you due to privacy concerns.
Electrum cannot do that by itself, specially in "watching-only" wallets where it cannot even sign transactions to consolidate.
Your watching-only wallet cannot create fully-signed transactions that can be sent to the network.

The thread isn't proceeding with the given information and assumptions, please describe the issue:
  • Is your wallet showing the correct balance? (even so, it may be fake if the hardware wallet is fake)
  • Did you bought you Coldcard from a reputable distributor?
  • Did it came with a pre-generated seed phrase?
  • Did those "consolidation" and "privacy" transactions, occur without your intervention?
  • Have you sent any other transaction aside from those mentioned two?
565  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: getaddressbalance is not accurate ? on: October 29, 2023, 05:01:10 AM
But I can still spend 30.99 btc, right? If yes, I don't understand Electrum decision to exclude P2PK balances from the address balance!
With Electrum, your only option is to "Sweep" its private key (Wallet->Private key->Sweep) and Electrum will be able to spend that P2PK unspent txn output.
When sweeping, do not append any script type before the private key (it wont work in uncompressed WIF) and it'll search for P2PK together with P2PKH outputs.
Take note that sweep automatically sends the amount of BTC to the wallet where you've used the menu.

Reference PR: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/3125
566  Bitcoin / Armory / Re: Any hopes of getting Armory under a modern Ubuntu to work? on: October 29, 2023, 04:38:38 AM
-snip-
Thank you. Do I need a running Armory first to export the keys or can I directly import?
This post describes the steps on how to export the keys from your Armory and two replies below it has an example import process to Electrum.

Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4746784.msg43255691#msg43255691
The provided images no longer updated since the user is a bit inactive but the post itself should be easy to follow.

And yes, you certainly need Armory to be able to export the keys but you don't need it to be active during import to the wallet of your choice.
567  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Fun & learning with Electrum EPS, Electrum wallet & Bitcoin Core QT in Win 11 on: October 28, 2023, 05:18:06 AM
The lines were commented out by default in the EPS I've downloaded. When I've used tor instead of tor-or-own-node for broadcast_method it doesn't broadcast or process transactions. I've altered settings for tor host & tor post with 9150, localhost & 127.0.0.1 but those settings don't work.
I was talking about: config.ini_sample which is copied to config.ini as per the instructions.
My reply is just based off the notes in the commented lines; if it doesn't work then you may have to stick with the working config.
568  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Having Trouble With Electrum Wallet Recovery on: October 28, 2023, 04:46:03 AM
Electrum proves as garbage tho.
I was thinking, I can't personally do it, but nothing stops a good programmer to automate wallet creations with random seeds and get random wallets till find one with something inside and just take it.
Since all he has to do is have a valid seed.
Yeah, so as all wallets that use mnemonic phrase backup, this isn't just a problem with Electrum. (Bitcoin Core doesn't use mnemonic)
All the programmer has to do is to wait for his script to find a hit within the 2048^12 range of word combinations, maybe after 5trillion years.

There are no profiles in electrum, I assume and no way to get my coins back!
There are profiles (core developers) who are working on Electrum's development here: https://github.com/orgs/spesmilo/people
But they do not have access to every Electrum user's funds, users' master keys are locally saved in the individual's own drive.
There's source code that you may audit to see if it's really the case: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum
569  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin address referencing system on: October 28, 2023, 04:21:40 AM
-snip-
It reduces the stress of having to type the address yourself and the risk of sending to the wrong address, thereby making the whole transaction process very less complicated and safe
If this is one of the main motivation for the feature, then you don't have to worry about it because addresses already have a "checksum" that ensures that users wont be able to send to a mistyped address.

It's not 100% reliable since the checksum's size is limited but it does its purpose. (how about 99% reliable?)
For example: A P2PKH address' checksum is 4Bytes in size which has 1 out of 2^32 chance of collision.
570  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Need Help with programmatically interfacing with ElectrumX on: October 27, 2023, 02:32:40 PM
  • If possible, I would like a python example(s) that would help me to achieve anything that is in bold above.
Lucky for you, Electrum client is also pure Python.
You can review its source code to see how it communicates with the specified or public Electrum servers.
Most notably, "network.py".

Link to source: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/electrum
571  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin address referencing system on: October 27, 2023, 02:10:18 PM
Now, back to my topic. It will be of great good if the 42-character long addresses can be referenced by a shorter name which still points to the original wallet address on the database.
This is the issue, the proposed feature needs a database but Bitcoin do not have a dedicated central database to keep data like those addresses and references.
It's out of the question to save it to each nodes since it'll add unnecessary bloat to the already-growing data that they keep.

If it's something like a plugin, maybe it's possible if it works like PayNym which needs to be integrated with all Bitcoin wallets for your example "signature campaign use-case" to be realistic.
572  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Fun & learning with Electrum EPS, Electrum wallet & Bitcoin Core QT in Win 11 on: October 26, 2023, 05:31:03 AM
EPS config.ini
Code:
# For tor broadcasting (broadcast_method = tor) configure
# the tor proxy host and port below
# tor_host = localhost
# tor_host = 127.0.0.1
# tor_port = 9150

My settings aren't working for tor only in config.ini so it isn't broadcasting transactions.
Those "tor_host" and "tor_port" options aren't commented-out by default, is there a reason why you disabled them?
If so, it could be the reason since it explicitly noted that those are required for broadcast_method = tor.

Also, 127.0.0.1 IP already reserved for localhost, although putting duplicate wont cause harm, setting both at the same time is still unnecessary.
573  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost wallet or something like that on: October 25, 2023, 05:32:03 AM
It was like bitcoin and that is it. Application on Debian Linux to try. Not like website at all. It had login and password much like website. It was like decade ago (2013-2014) Cheesy I am not sure.
Now that computer is lost long time ago, but I think I still know password and account name.
What does the "account name" looks like?
For safety and privacy, you can replace every character or a few, but do not change the format.
This is essential to know which wallet it is from.

Quote from: ProzacR
Or it is stored on device?
Those "not website" wallets usually stores the wallet file in the device itself.
But applications that require username and password usually has it in their server.

How can I get my coin back?
The beauty of Bitcoin is it's non-custodial, means that there's no custodial service or server who hodls your Bitcoins for you.
With it, no one can recover your bitcoins from a server, even the developers do not have access to anyone's bitcoins.
You need to recover the wallet file or any backup of it.

That's unless your login details are from an exchange, some custodial wallet, or web wallets.
In that case, it depends if the service or owner is still active.
574  Other / Off-topic / Re: scantxoutset example on: October 25, 2023, 04:36:02 AM
Also note that in addition to the descriptor itself, you will usually have to pass the checksum of the descriptor right after it - the hash '#' followed by a bunch of letters and numbers.
That's only mandatory in importdescriptors command.
But scantxoutset will work regardless of the presence or absence of the checksum as of v25.0


Anyways, OP was asking for the "syntax" so most likely, he knows what arguments to include, just how to put them together which he already did in the edit.
575  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Winner of lambo round 9 on freebitco..in website on: October 24, 2023, 04:39:08 AM
I have recieve this mail in my spam folder please tell me is it from scammers or from freebitco.in staff
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/10/24/Tz2Ua.jpeg
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/10/24/Ttl5N.jpeg
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/10/24/TzURo.jpeg
Those are certainly from scammers to get your account details to swindle your prize.
You absolutely shouldn't put your email and password in that link which obviously not from freebitco.in.
Also, they will not ask you to deposit any BTC to claim it (did you just logged-in to a fake freebitco.in page?)

If you already did logged in to that scammer's site, PM TheQuin immediately about it so that he wont accidentally send it to them.
Don't rush it, double-check any link you've been receiving and think twice before logging-in.

By posting that "you've won a lambo", you're instantly became a target by hackers, please exercise extreme caution.

-edit-
Here, The Quin has a reply in the official thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320959.msg63044451#msg63044451
576  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Crack seed phrases with brute force? on: October 24, 2023, 03:40:33 AM
Passphrases do not encrypt seed phrases. They are used as a salt in the HMAC-SHA512 function which turns your seed phrase in to your master keys.
Additionally, to differentiate the two and for others to better understand of the term "encrypt":
  • With encryption, the original data can be recreated from the secret and the encrypted data.
  • PBKDF2 functions like HMAC, however is a "one-way" function, there's no going back from 'seed' to 'seed phrase'.
577  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Crack seed phrases with brute force? on: October 23, 2023, 05:03:47 AM
-snip-
Because the entropy (plus checksum) where the mnemonic seed is based from is sorted per 11-bits, each of those 11-bit part corresponds to a word.
Then the reason for "2048" is because that is the limit that an 11-bit number can do, from 00000000000 (0 in decimal) to 11111111111 (2047 in decimal)
Let me illustrate this answer
It's a pretty close example for the maximum combinations that a 2048 words can do but that images is mostly used to explain the Bitcoin private key range of 256bits.
My post is mostly about the reason for having only 2048 words.

-snip- But nobody gave the answer to the question of why the number of words are limited to 2048, or anyone have already gave!
Just two posts above yours.
I think I did a pretty good explanation and example to make 2^11 which represents each word understandable even for beginners.

Was it because of the last possible number is 2047, Yes?
If you count "00000000000" in which is counted, that'll be a total of 2048 words.
578  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Crack seed phrases with brute force? on: October 22, 2023, 02:42:51 PM
Another small question, why does BIP39 has only 2048 words? What's the reason? Is it related to any maths or equations?
Here's the small answer  Wink

Because the entropy (plus checksum) where the mnemonic seed is based from is sorted per 11-bits, each of those 11-bit part corresponds to a word.
Then the reason for "2048" is because that is the limit that an 11-bit number can do, from 00000000000 (0 in decimal) to 11111111111 (2047 in decimal)
579  Bitcoin / Armory / Re: Armory wallet hangs on "Scanning Transaction History" Since Bitcoin Core 25.0 on: October 22, 2023, 02:26:01 PM
I'm thinking Windows 11 downloaded updates/patches about the same time I installed Bitcoin Core v25.
In a pinch, I can use a separate Windows 10 server for Armory, but that's an old PC I'd like to use it for other purposes.
Windows 11 is my fastest PC, so if I can figure out this problem, it would be awesome.
If you think that it's the cause of the issue, then try to uninstall the latest updates of your W11 machine.
Refer to this article to see how: support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-uninstall-a-windows-update

Then, since you've already downgraded and confirmed that you have the complete blockchain but the issue remains, then we can deduct Bitcoin Core out of the suspects.
580  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: ASIC HOMEMADE on: October 22, 2023, 02:19:33 PM
you can get six board controllers.
Aside from the readily-available in the market,
he may be able to fulfil his "Homemade ASIC" objective by modifying the control board schematics available in the internet.
Of course, he need a qualified (ASIC) computer engineer to do this.

I'm trying to think outside the box, analyze the options and cryptocurrencies that exist and look for something that doesn't need to be 0 to 2 thousand dollars a day, but 0 to 10 or 100... maybe.
Some of those who still own those old Bitcoin ASICs do exactly that: they use it to mine low-hashrate Altcoins with compatible algo to earn $0+.

Does an ASIC designed for ETC or KAS or SHA256 only do this? At the hardware level, can it not do anything less than less efficient?
ASIC's full name could be the answer to that question: "Application Specific Integrated Circuit".
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