Where did you get this Address from? Mycelium doesn't just generate random watch-only addresses for you... you have to explicitly enter it when setting up a "Stand Alone" Bitcoin wallet within the app.

So, you got that address from somewhere... the question is... WHERE?

They may not explicitly have a withdrawal fee, but they just factor the "withdrawal fees" into their buy/sell spreads... So, while it may not technically be a "fee", you're still paying for it. Check the rates they give against the current values of the coins. They will 100% have factored in a margin that guarantees to cover the transaction fees and make a profit etc.

I concur with the above. Don't use Coinomi... there are much much much MUCH better Bitcoin wallets available. Coinomi is useful if you want to play with shitcoins, but otherwise it's pretty bad.

Thankfully Coinomi is BIP39 compatible, so you should be able to take your 12 word seed and restore you wallet in another BIP39 compatible wallet... perhaps have a look here: https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

I assume you wanted to try and write multiple copies on each disc until it was full in an attempt to prevent "disc rot"

CD-R discs are probably not the most trustworthy method of storing data long term unless kept in high quality archive type conditions. I would recommend that you use either USB thumb drives (which still have a limited shelf live, but longer than a CD-R) or simply use paper (laminated/waterproof) or engrave in steel plates etc.

Definitely a CPU bottleneck... the download of the data is only a small part of the syncing process... it's the actual number crunching of the block data to verify it (and all the IO read/writes) that will be making the Pi slow.

From a review of the Pi 400 that I saw... they had put in a large metal plate to act as a kind of heat spreader off the CPU to try and dissipate heat...

And from a write-up testing this cooling solution, it seems that this heat spreader actually does a better job for the Pi400 than a standard Pi4B with a cooling fan!

So, it'll likely be a combination of "low end" CPU + Disk I/O that is slowing things down, tbh.

PyWallet (at least the "web" version) was indeed able to "edit" wallet.dat files... you could import and delete keys and addresses, in addition to the "dump" functionality.


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I'm still confused by the character set used... it almost seems like Base64... except for that * character?!??

Can you please confirm if you meant bitcoin.org (no "g")... or bitcoing.org (with the extra "g")...

I don't think bitcoin.org was ever an online wallet... How exactly did you come to the conclusion that this elusive wallet was created on this website? Can you provide a screenshot of the emails?

Where you perhaps actually referring to blockchain.info? That was one of the most popular web wallets

Would it just attempt to start paging out the data if you had attempted a dbcache that was larger than your actual physical RAM size? or does dbcache just revert to your actual RAM size if you set it to a ridiculous value?

In either case, reading through the git issue regarding "replaying blocks", it looks like the OP is just going to have to sit and wait... the most disconcerting thing was that you can't actually interrupt it.

You realise that the Electrum 2FA wallets come with "extra" service fees from TrustedCoin, right? These are in addition to the standard Bitcoin network transaction fees.

Refer: https://api.trustedcoin.com/#/faq#fees

Make sure you understand what you're getting into before you ask why there is an extra 0.0005 BTC (or 0.00125 BTC) charge on your first outgoing transaction

Bitaddress.org won't help you... that is for dealing with Bitcoin keys... you really need to try to track down an old "Agama" binary (or somehow get the code to compile and make your own).

Without that, you chances of being able to convert your old key to the "new" key format are probably relatively slim

Not necessarily... like I said, my partner who has never been to any crypto related site ever gets "Warnings" that her crypto wallet is at risk. With cryptocurrency getting a lot more mainstream, the spammers are, as always, just playing a numbers game...

Hell, I get warnings that my <insert exchange/service that I have never used> account is blocked and I need to click on this link to fix etc.

Granted, getting the emails from the leaks isn't particular difficult... all the data is out there... and targeting those emails is likely going to get "better" results for a scammer than blindly emailing random email addresses... but those types of emails are not exclusive to the emails in the leaked data.

Make sure that the "blocks" shown in the bottom right corner of the Armory window is up to a block value of at least when you were last using Armory, if not much later. Otherwise, as PhoenixFire pointed out, you may not be seeing the "true" balance of your wallet.

For reference, Block# 340000 is from late January 2015

Are you wanting to continue using Armory... or are you just wanting to recover your private keys and migrate to another wallet?

If you want to continue using Armory, then yes, you'll need to wait for Bitcoin Core to finish syncing.

If you just want to recover your private keys, then you can find my guide here on how to export your private keys: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4746784.msg43255691#msg43255691

Note: you will need to use the "Include Unused (Address Pool)" option (and get about 1000 keys) as Armory has no way of identifying the "used" keys until it has been fully synced (which it obviously can't do until Bitcoin Core is fully synced )...

Once you have all your private keys, you can easily import them into another wallet like Electrum.

It really comes down to what your plans are moving forward, and whether you are in a "hurry" to access your coins etc.

I honestly don't see how you could get a wallet.dat from only 76 chars... that seems highly unlikely

More likely that what you have is a single private key that has been encoded in some manner. The good news is that at least you have the password. The bad news is that you have no idea what encryption method has been used.


Text that starts "AAQ" and ends with a "*" doesn't sound like the "usual" Base64 encoding of ciphertext, as Base64 usually ends with "=" characters... not that it would really make any different, as even if it was Base64, there is still no way to know what the actual encryption algorithm was

That's not likely to work... WSL knows nothing of "Windows" paths... so things like "E:\" etc don't mean anything.

However, WSL should be mounting all the Windows drive letters under /mnt (and in lowercase!)... so you should be able to use something like:

They don't go out of their way to highlight this issue... and, from a commercial standpoint, it's fairly understandable why... I mean, it's not exactly a great look to say "hey, our device for securing your coins has a fundamental flaw, but you can mitigate it by using this passphrase feature".

Most of their documentation seems to indicate that the passphrase functionality is "optional"... and not recommended for new users etc:

Additionally, you have to go into the advanced options in the wallet interface and explicitly enable the passphrase protection functionality on the device. It is not turned on by default.


Granted, the more likely way to lose coins is probably carelessness with the seed phrase (ie. phishing sites or poor security practices and storing data digitally etc.) but still... they do seem to be deliberately ignoring the problem rather than addressing it in a meaningful way... which is a touch disappointing.

I honestly don't know... I am running a self compiled "TestNet" version... so maybe there have been some commits to the codebase that change the behaviour since the official 4.1.2 APK was released?


EDIT: nope... I just uninstalled my dev version and then installed the latest 4.1.2 APK from the Play Store and when I tap the address on the "Request" screen, I get shown the other screen with the address QR code and the "Copy" button.


What version are you actually running? I don't think that has been mentioned as yet...

No, I believe it only shows coin app updates being available if you go into the "Manager", as the Ledger Live dashboard does not have the ability to check the version numbers etc (you have to enter the Manager and then click the "allow Ledger Manager" prompt on the device so it can actually access the apps on your device to check versions etc).



So, if you haven't you might want to fire up the "Manager" next time you are using Ledger Live just to be sure you have the most recent coin apps installed.

My partner, who knows pretty much nothing about crypto (other than the fact that some of my crypto bought her some amazon giftcards for her B'day ) gets emails every other day about Doge or Crypto.com or "DeFi" or <insert crypto "scam" here> etc...

That was probably around 30-40 sats/vbyte for a "standard" 1 input/2 output transaction... so that would be about right given the current network conditions...

Glad you managed to get it sorted!