I was asking if someone can tell me at what point of setting up the Electrum program do they ask you to make a password? Because the installer finished, I had a shortcut on my desktop, and I opened up the default wallet window, in that order, never being prompted to do anything with a password.
It sounds like you had previously installed and setup Electrum at some point in the past... When Electrum is uninstalled, it does NOT delete it's data directory and/or old wallet files... so, upon (re)installing Electrum this time, it has found your old "default_wallet" and used that. I've seen this before on the forum... people saying they never set up a password or got a seed... sent coins to a wallet address, then tried to send coins out and have been prompted for a password they never set. It is because a new install has found the old data files...  Basically, you will need to try and guess what your "old" password would have been (hopefully you're lazy like most people and use the same password for everything, or you use easy to guess ones for you!)... if you cannot remember what your old password was, then those coins are effectively lost, as you will not be able to get the seed and/or send the coins without the password. |
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In before goatpig says... "Post your logs"  Suggest using pastebin.com to avoid the message length limit here... Copy/Paste the contents of your "armorylog.txt" and "dbLog.txt" into a couple of PasteBins and post the links here. |
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You need to install the "Ledger Wallet Bitcoin" Chrome App (which is sounds like you have)... then you start the "Ledger Wallet Bitcoin" app and you'll get the popup window asking to connect the Ledger device...
Connect the device, enter your PIN and then select the "Bitcoin" app on your Nano S.
The "Ledger Wallet Bitcoin" app should then detect your Nano S, and prompt you to choose "Bitcoin" or "Bitcoin Cash" (then Legacy or SegWit)... and then finally open your wallet up.
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Each address has it's own key... so, logically, if you have coins spread across multiple address, you're going to need to get multiple keys. (NOTE: Instead of using 'dumpprivkey' multiple times to get each private key, you can use the 'dumpwallet' command to just dump the whole wallet out to a file). PROS: Free! Maintains privacy (none of the addresses will be linked) CONS: Time consuming, messy, possibility of missing a key/address Or... as Spendulus has suggested, just send ALL the coins in that wallet to a new address in that wallet, and just export that one key for the new address. PROS: Just one key to rule them all! CONS: Will cost a transaction fee... which could get large dependent on how many UTXOs you're trying to consolidate, plus you have to wait for confirmation... possible privacy implications |
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-Can I convert the wallet.dat file to a modern wallet file, preferably for a lightweight wallet like electrum?
No, the best you could do is dump the privkeys and import or sweep them into another wallet. -Will the newest official bitcoin wallet work read the old wallet.dat file?
Yes, but you'll need the blockchain fully downloaded and sync'd to be able to spend the coins from the wallet. -Can I import the JSON file into some sort of modern wallet file?
Probably not. -Can I do any of these steps on an offline computer to ensure that if I make a screwup I can just start over?
Yes... and it goes without saying that you should also use COPIES of the wallet files... do NOT work on the original files. Another concern I have is retaining access to the bitcoin cash version of these bitcoin as well as both versions from the upcoming fork.
-Will I loose access to bitcoin cash and the new forks depending on how I try to recover these old bitcoin files?
No, you will NOT lose access to BCH, as long as you have the original wallets and/or access to the original private keys... you'll be fine. Best of luck with your BTC recover, seems like you've got quite a happy little stash if your "smallest" balance is ~2BTC!   |
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Hello everyone,
I have scoured the internet to try to understand the process of claiming bitcoin cash. It seems everyone wants to tell you to use their system instead of actually teaching you the process.
You obviously didn't scour much of the internet... there are about 543805123458216 threads on here about claiming BCH  The coins were in a Jaxx wallet and I have the address/private key
That's a good start. My first question is, Can I transfer my bitcoins to a new address in order to keep them safe during the process?
Of course you can, why wouldn't you be able to transfer the BTC?  I'd recommend a completely new wallet (if it is currently in a wallet secured with a 12 word seed backup), rather than just a new address tho. The next step would be importing my private keys into a bitcoin cash wallet?
Any suggestions on the easiest way to accomplish this?
Just go and get ElectronCash... https://www.electroncash.org/It's a fork of Electrum, it's a lightweight "SPV" wallet, so you don't need to download the full blockchain, and it "syncs" in a matter of seconds. Create a new "Standard" wallet, and select the "Use public or private keys" option when asked... then paste in the private key(s) for the address(es) you're trying to claim your BCH from. It'll generate a wallet with the appropriate addresses and you should see your BCH balance. You can then do whatever you want with your BCH... hodl, dump at an exchange etc etc... As far as I'm aware... since 1 Aug, there has been no loss of coins involving (the legit version) of Electron Cash... the application seems relatively trustworthy. Usual disclaimers apply, check the file checksums/signatures etc. Any help would be appreciated as I want to learn the process with this upcoming fork.
If you're talking about BTG fork, apparently, they also plan on releasing a forked version of Electrum for BTG, so you can follow pretty much the same process... get BTGElectrum, import private keys, send BTG to exchange, dump for free $$$ If you're talking about the S2X fork later in November... that is going to be a completely different kettle of fish (unless they implement replay protection for S2X, which seems unlikely)... So, chances are you will NOT be able to use this method for getting S2X coins. |
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...and there is a way to revert a multisig wallet private key back to a regular address private key (I'm fairly sure there is at least).
No there isn't... as there isn't a "MultiSig Wallet Private Key"... MultiSig "addresses" are actually hashed scripts that are crafted from two or more (N) different public keys... and specify some minimum number (M) of signatures (generated by the private keys that match the public keys) that are required to be provided with a transaction before the network will recognise that transaction as valid. Hence, "M of N"... if you have N = 4, and M = 2, then there would be 4 public keys in total used to generate the MultiSig in the first instance, but you'd only need 2 signatures (generated by the matching private keys) to be able to spend any coins controlled by that particular address. You can't revert it back to a regular address private key. |
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"You are expected to receive 0.111883569 GB and 0.236197403 giga-blackbytes (GBB)." ... "Payment: 0.034343383 GB 1:13 AM" ... Distribution of Bytes is now finished.
That moment when you're wondering where the rest of your Bytes are... And then you realise the Transition Bot is probably just having a cup of tea and a lie down while the distribution is in full swing... and actually go and look at the "History" tab... and your current balance and do the math properly... "RECEIVED +0.07754 GB 12 hours ago"   "RECEIVED +0.03434 GB 15 hours ago" In other news, it is good to see the Dev actively working on the project and putting some proper serious thought into the Distribution model and not just cruising on autopilot. Will also be interesting to see how the TitanICO plays out  |
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A question about Ledger Nano S:
Can I keep in one device (hardware wallet) several Bitcoin wallets?
Yes... you can add multiple "accounts" within Bitcoin. Each account creates separate and unique addresses from the others and you can label them (and use different colours) to differentiate the accounts from one another. The balance of each account is separate from the other accounts, and you cannot combine coins from separate accounts into one transaction. As mentioned previously, you can also use different passphrases to generate completely different wallets, which are also separate from each other, but you can't "see" them together at the same time within the ledger bitcoin wallet chrome app. |
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Next time... instead of crying that your transactions are unconfirmed... try sending with "proper" fees... you sent with only 26 sats/byte and 30 sats/byte!!?! That's just being stupid when the mempool has had 50+k unconfirmed transactions for like 2 days, and recommended fees have been over 300 sats/byte. |
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1- should one best pick a 'standard' wallet or one with 'two factor auth'? (Probably two factor?)
It depends. "Standard" creates a 'normal' HD wallet, that can be backed up with a 12 word seed. It allows for setting a wallet password and wallet file encryption. It will generate standard '1' type Bitcoin addresses. These can be used to sign messages and are easily exported if required. A "2 factor" wallet gives the added security of requiring a Google Authenticator 2FA code to send transactions etc, however this uses a third party (TrustedCoin) who charge a fee for providing this service (NOTE: 2FA fee is in addition to normal BTC transaction fee!). Also, it is a special version of a MultiSig wallet, so it generates '3' type addresses which means it is difficult to sign messages and/or export keys/addresses. They (2FA) will likely NOT be supported in any forks (TrustedCoin don't support BCH and I doubt they will support BTG). If your goal is max compatibility, I'd recommend "standard". 2- at the option screen to create new seed, you can also use public/private keys? What does the latter mean/do?
It will create a non-HD wallet, by importing public or private keys that have been generated elsewhere. They will NOT be able to be backed up with 12 word seed. If you use public keys, it generates a "watching only" wallet... Can view but can't spend. 3- when or why do you use the 'sweep' function?
Instead of importing a private key into your wallet... You can 'sweep'... This simply creates a one off transaction that transfers the entire contents of a private key (or keys) to a specified address. Normally used to retrieve coins from a paperwallet into your HD Electrum wallet... But can be used with any private key from any wallet. NOTE: You should consider any private key that has been "swept" as compromised and any associated addresses with that private key should not be used again. |
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Sounds like you sent the transaction to yourself! Are you sure you put the ICOs BTC address? And you didn't accidentally paste YOUR address because they would have asked for your address when you were registering...
As far as I can tell, you sent the coins to: 15tRtTNw764neqzdR4FkfFu4Zx6fjbCcLu
Is that your address? What is the ICO deposit address?
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I accelerated your transaction using:
- ViaBTC TX accelerator
- AntPool
- confirmtx.com
All three accepted your transaction, so fingers crossed it should get included in a block within the next couple of hours (assuming ViaBTC, AntPool and/or whomever confirmtx use find a block within that timeframe)
If you haven't already, at least update to Electrum v2.9.3 (or v3.0.0 if you're NOT on Win 7 or Win 8 )
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The same way you "move" BTC normally... Just create a transaction that sends your BTC to a new wallet.
So it goes:
1. Create a new wallet
2. Send BTC from old wallet to new wallet
3. There is no step 3.
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3. Wait till you have at least 6 confirmations and then import or fill your old private key in the BTG claim website https://www .btgcpu.org/ <- SCAM WEBSITE DO NOT CLICK!That's all, I'm not sure if btgcpu is the only way to claim them, as I didn't do it myself. But you could try the Coinomi wallet, they might be able to give you access to your Bitcoin Gold. If you want to do it that way, make sure to use the same steps as I mentioned but in step 3 use Coinomi instead of btgcpu.org The official website was bt cgpu.org... Not "btgcpu" They have since moved the official Bitcoin Gold website to http://bitcoingold.org/ <- OFFICIAL BTG website DO NOT use btgcpu website... DO NOT create Wallet there... DO NOT put any private keys or seed into that website!! It is a SCAMBut what I really want to know is how to move/transfer to a new wallet, like 1-do this 2-do that 3-...(im using Electrum only)
I'm confused with the 'sweeping' and the moving etc...?
It'll be really easy... When BTG actually launches, (they're only on day 2 of testnet testing... They haven't launched the BTG network yet!) They are going to release an Electrum port that works for BTG. So it will be just like the BCH fork... You can simply import a copy of your BTC Electrum wallet into BTG Electrum and you'll be good to go! NOTE: Moving BTC isn't strictly required, it is just recommended. The ONLY reason people advise to move your BTC to a new wallet, is to prevent theft of your BTC should the BTG wallet you attempt to use turn out to be rogue and it sends your seed or private keys to a thief. If you have already moved your BTC to a new wallet, the thief can't get them, only your BTG. Moving BTC isn't required for this fork, as full 2way replay protection has been implemented. |
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It is only an issue for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Windows 10 appears to be unaffected by the problem. The Devs are aware of the issue ( https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/3171), there is currently no fix that an end user can use (other than upgrading to Windows 10 ), but some commits have been put in place to fix this issue in future versions. So, unfortunately, your only real option is to go back to using v2.9.3 until the issue is properly fixed and an update is released. |
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You don't need an email address for Electrum. It is not a "web wallet"... You don't "sign up" for anything. It is a desktop software wallet that runs on you PC (Windows or Linux) or your Mac... There is also an Android version, but it is feature limited. Anyway, the official Electrum website is: https://electrum.org/#home |
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