ok this allowed me to enter my private key but it shows zero balance which is incorrect. It provided a receiving btc address that is not the one I use. I tried to do a sweep and it wont take the master key there though.
What is the first character for your addresses in both bitpay and the wallet you just got on Electrum? (3, 1 or btc1?) |
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starts with xprv and when entered on the Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys screen on Electrum the "Next" button is grayed out.
the links from bitpay explaining how to get the private key are unnecessary as the app has a simple button to export the private key so there is no need to do that long drawn out process - that being said - I did it yesterday anyways and it just provided me the same private key that the app does. Again, I believe I stated this above.
If it starts with xprv, then that's basically your wallet's master private-key. You need to select Standard Wallet -> Use a master key; then paste it in there and click Next. That should work. |
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Split key is optional - some people do not know how to use a split key, that was my initial concern.
Make a tutorial. It's not hard. Maybe put some images and you're done. Example: 1. Go to Bitaddress.org (optionally download its source code on https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/archive/v3.3.0.zip) and open it; 2. Move your mouse around until 100%; 3. Click on the "Vanity Wallet" tab; 4. Click on "Generate" and don't close the tab; 5. Paste the "Step 1 Public Key" in the generator's split-key field and click "Generate Address"; 6. Meanwhile, go back to bitaddress and paste the "Step 1 Private Key" into bitaddress' first box; 7. When the service finds the address, paste the generator's "BTC Privkey part" into Bitaddress' second box; 8. Click "Calculate Vanity Wallet"; 9. It should show your vanity address private-key. I will not be forcing split key, because of usability and accessibility
Stop giving excuses. Make your service truly secure. Security > Usability. Otherwise, we should just use Coinbase. |
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UPDATE: We now support split-key on our website!
Good job! May I ask you to make using the split-key feature OBLIGATORY? Like, only offer your services if the user does that?  You can link them to bitaddress.org to generate their key pair (there is a vanity address tab in there). |
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Sir your assumptions are your own. If you don't trust it, don't use it, but that's unfair and physically impossible for you to make any claim to the services credibility if you've never used it.
Don't worry, I won't use it.  But I will also warn everybody else (specially the newbies who don't understand things) how unsafe and untrustworthy this is. Now, if you are legit, shutdown your service right now and only put it back when you implement a safe way of generating vanity addresses (split-key). |
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Unless you start using the split-key method[1] to generate the vanity address, I'll assume you are a scammer. This is 100% UNSAFE as you generate everything in the backend and you are VERY LIKELY saving these keys. This has nothing to do with "paranoid" people. THIS IS SUPER BASIC SECURITY. [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Split-key_vanity_address
WARNING: DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE! |
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The Trezor T has an irreplaceable bootloader that verifies the integrity of the firmware installed. You should be fine.
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I use Electrum almost every day and my coins are intact. Electrum isn't the problem (trust me). How long? Couple of years? Trust me, many times i used Electrum and Core. I dont have just LTC, but diversified coins. Why someone steal only little ammount of LTC? I read now, people lost a lot of money using Electrum. I'm looking for the real cause right now. In my opinion it is not safe for large amounts. Since 2014. Anyways, regardless of Electrum is bad or not, using only a desktop wallet is never safe enough when you are dealing with a lot of money. That’s why hardware wallets exist. If that was the case, everyone would be robbed, don’t you think? It’s easy to put all these cases and say Electrum is the problem while you don’t actually know that. How can someone blame Electrum when your PC could be infected? There are many variables, not just “I used Electrum so they must be the problem”. Thousands of people use Electrum every day. Why only you and a couple of people got robbed? And why are you linking an Electrum-LTC (which is just a fork) issue in here? |
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The image isn’t showing up for me when I open its direct link. So it must be a problem with the image/tinypic.
But please, use another hosting provider like Imgur instead of tinypic. They suck.
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As far as I understand, illegal mixers are those who are close by the regulators, just recently this year we've seen Bestmixer was close, so I think they are doing some illegal activities like money laundering. So to think that there's still a lot of mixers existing until now, I believe they complied with any regulatory compliance they have to or they maybe they are not regulated yet.
For me, using a mixer is kinda risky as any time they can disappear that's why I don't transact a big amount of BTC in one time, just to minimize the risk.
Sorry, but I don’t think you know what you are talking about. Mixers complying with “regulatory compliances”? Regulated mixers? Illegal because they got shutdown? A mixer receives coins and send coins. They don’t track, nor verify, nor “comply”. Do you even know what is the point of using a mixer? Why do they even exist? What comes next? Mixers doing KYC? lol |
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You are trying to spend dust outputs (basically, when you receive multiple small transactions which will cost more in fees to spend than what they are worth). Where you receiving coins from faucets or a mining pool?
Can you try your tx again, but instead of clicking "Send", click on "Preview", then "Copy" and paste it here? Or take a screenshot of the Preview window.
Edit: not inputs
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No, this is not true. Electrum isn't safe. Sorry.
First btc i buy in 2011, so if i have same app, ga, 2fa, usb-backup's, knowledge, experience and i lost my coins yesterday just like that from original electrum - something is wrong. And its gone, i have diversification and money managament, but i cant trade now.
Someone steal low ammount, so for me this is paranoid. I read now about it, many people just hacked.
Well, unfortunately you messed up somewhere. I use Electrum almost every day and my coins are intact. Electrum isn't the problem (trust me). You must have: a) downloaded a fake wallet. b) downloaded a malware. c) saved your seed online (where you shouldn't). Or something else. These are the main reasons people get hacked. |
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I mean how it even happened? Google scrutiny should be a lot higher here.
That's what happens when Google lets anyone put any app they want on the play store without any review for just $25. Apple at least checks these apps. All we can do is keep looking for these and report as soon as we see something like this. Maybe someone could create a "report fake wallets" megathread or something like this. Then we could just make everybody report it. |
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Please how do I locate the newly built forum, just want to be part, thanks for this information, for you to know this, you need a thumb-up but can't do so right now.
The forum will be the same. It will just use a newly made software. Fow now, it is still in development/beta. But you can see how it looks like and test it (maybe to search for bugs) in one of the forums that is using it right now: https://cryptos-currencies.com/ |
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Thanks for that tool that'll help but with 168,207 active profiles as per BPIP I can't tell if they will install this script, all of them will come across this topic, how many of them will be caught to that error or how many of them will post long topics. My suggestion is if ever the forum itself can implement it just by giving a warning to how many characters still left just what can we see on our profile when updating our signatures, I guess that's best for all in my opinion.
Yeah, maybe theymos could consider addding this. There is a new forum software that will be released soon, so that's why he's not focusing so much on adding new features to the current forum. My script is just a temporary workaround, but I agree it would be better if that was a native function of the forum. |
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I've made a script that does that. If you're interested: Here is my try (in case you are interested). It's a GreaseMonkey/TamperMonkey script. Just paste this in a new script file and whenever you start typing a new post/thread, it will show up "Characters left: X" a little bit under the text area; (X = 64000 - current count) Preview: https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/14/blob12e3077d712dd190.png// ==UserScript==
// @name BitcoinTalk Characters Left
// @version 1
// @include https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=post;*
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
function getElementByXpath(path) {
return document.evaluate(path, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;
}
countText = document.createElement('span');
countText.setAttribute("id", "countText");
getElementByXpath('/html/body/div[2]/form/table[2]/tbody/tr[2]/td/table').appendChild(countText);
document.getElementsByName('message')[0].onkeyup = function () {
document.getElementById('countText').innerHTML = "<b>Characters left: </b>" + (64000 - this.value.length);
};
P.S: I suck at Js. |
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For my own understanding and experience so far, paper wallet is more risk usage, because anytime your device clash or lost from the owner, paper wallet is more difficult to recover, than blockchain wallet.
That's the price you gotta pay if you want to be the true owner of your coins. What happens if Blockchain wallet vanishes? Don't be dependent to other people/services. |
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Esse red trust que me fez desanimar demais do fórum aqui.
Quando eu pedi a ele provas, ele me deu block dos PM, ai fui num tópico dele e fiz o mesmo, ele ignorou, ai xinguei, e ele me deu outro red trust kkkkk
É demais pra mim, como uma pessoa dessa pode ter tanto poder no fórum?
Sem querer defender ele/ela (acredite, eu discordo com 80% das coisas que ele/ela está fazendo no fórum ultimamente). Mas, você aparentemente tem uma alt banida no fórum? (supostamente da sua "esposa", coisa que eu não acredito por isso acontecer diretamente e sempre ser a mesma desculpa). E mesmo sendo da sua esposa, você(s) aparentemente estavam trocando fake feedbacks sobre um emprestar 0.5 BTC pro outro (?). Neg trust justificado em minha opinião - pelo menos depois do que se foi descoberto - (sem "double standards" a.k.a ser tendencioso por você ser br, etc - se fosse qualquer outro, eu teria a mesma opinião). E tem sorte de não ter sido banido por ban evasion. |
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Man, I have no background in computer science or anything related to that, so most of that article is Greek to me--but I do appreciate the link.
I have not yet set up the Ledger S, but I think I'm going to do it today and may add my NEO onto it. I don't suspect I'll have a problem as long as I can follow the directions. We'll see how it goes. For better or worse, I'm not all that concerned about my coins getting stolen, but I'll be careful about that.
The thing is that you still need physical access to the hardware wallet and a bit of social engineering to "break it". So, in most cases you will be safe as the only way you can actually be affected by this is if the bad guy is with you and you follow his instructions (in this case, he would probably just use the $5 wrench method). I wouldn't worry about this. |
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