That's fine.
But there are morethan just those 10 block files, right? How large is the whole blocks folder?



And also, can you confirm that you are using the latest version / have upgraded (https://btcarmory.com/)?

No you can not.

The password is not used to encrypt your wallet file, but to encrypt your seed (from which all private keys are derived).
Setting a password now would mean that you receive new private keys and therefore new addresses.

What you can do, is to restore a new wallet using the same mnemonic code and adding the password.
You will have a "fresh" wallet with no balance. Then you can send everything from your "old" wallet to your new wallet.

Or you could simply use your smart phone.
I don't get the reason why something physical (printed) is necessary for that.

What would be the benefit compared to a LN transaction?

Yes.



Yes. This watch-only wallet will only allow you to derive public keys (and addresses). This means you can see the whole balance, generate new addresses and create unsigned transactions.

You basically want to use that wallet for:

• Creating a new address
• Checking you received a transaction
• Create an unsigned transaction
• Broadcast the signed transaction

Your offline wallet (containing the private keys) does:

• Sign the unsigned transaction

You shouldn't be doing that.
Instead, generate your seed and mnemonic code while being offline.

You could just use a usb-bootable linux distro with electrum (verify the signature) to create your seed completely offline.


Further, it also is not necessary to go online with the device containing the private keys.
You can use a watch-only wallet on your online device. Just import the master public key into your online electrum wallet. You will see your balance and can create new addresses. You just can't spend from them.
With this watch-only wallet you are able to create unsigned transactions, move them to your offline device, sign them there and move them back to your online device.

This way your private keys are never exposed on an network-connected device.

He already imported his mnemonic code, but ended up with an "empty" wallet, most likely due to chosing a wrong derivation path.
This is currently being discussed in the local board.

Dein "Guthaben" ist in der Blockchain "gespeichert".
Um von electrum darauf zugreifen zu können, musst du die Private keys importierten. Und das machst du indem du den Mnemonic code dort importierst.

Hast du bei Schritt 4 in dem kleinen Tutorial darauf geachtet, dass du deinen "richtigen blockchain.com account" importiert hast ?
Wie hier zu sehen:


Das ist ausschlaggebend für die letzte Ziffer im derivation path. Falls es dein 1. Account (letzte ziffer: 0) ist, musst du nichts machen.


Zudem musst du, wenn deine Adressen mit "3" anstatt "1" anfangen (das lässt sich dem Screenshot leider nicht entnehmen), p2sh-segwit (p2wpkh-p2sh) auswählen (ebenfalls Schritt 4).

Screenshots can always be faked.



If person A sends person B a private message and deletes it afterwards, the message still remains in the inbox of the recipient (just like with emails).
When you report a PM to a moderator, he will see its content.

So, yes. A moderator can verify PM's.

Ein anderer Nutzer hatte vor ein paar Tagen exakt das gleiche Problem: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5257914.0

Da hat im Endeffekt nichts geholfen, außer die "Seed phrase" in ein anderes Wallet zu importieren.

Nur um nochmal sicher zugehen:

• Hast du schonmal von diesem Wallet gesendet (also ist es kein watch-only wallet) ?
• Hast du eine absurd hohe Anzahl an Transaktionen insgesamt erhalten um auf die 0.0084x BTC zu kommen? Damit meine ich so 20+ ?

Ich gehe fast davon aus, dass es sich hierbei tatsächlich um irgendeinen Bug seitens blockchain.com handelt.

Um auf deine Coins zugreifen zu können (und nicht länger von einem fehlerhaften zentralisierten Server abhängig zu sein), kannst du dein blockchain.com wallet in electrum importieren: https://blog.blockonomics.co/how-to-restore-blockchain-com-wallet-into-electrum-f593ec79ab3d

Neue Mitglieder können keine Bilder direkt posten, aber du kannst sie auf einer Website (z.B. https://imgur.com/) hochladen und hier den Link posten.



Ist denn "unzureichendes" Guthaben oder gar kein Guthaben vorhanden?

Ich gehe mal davon aus, dass er mit "Blockchain", das blockchain.com web wallet meint.


@OP:
Blockchain.com ist öfters mal ein wenig buggy.
Wenn es, wie Spray. erwähnt hat, nicht an den Transaktiongebühren liegt dann könntest du dein Wallet mithilfe des Mnemonic codes in einem anderen Wallet wiederherstellen (z.B. electrum) und deine Coins dann von dort versenden.

Generell würde ich dir sowieso empfehlen, kein web wallet zu nutzen. Du vergrößerst damit nur die Angriffsfläche.

Generally, the privacy is definitely better than with BIP37. However it still depends on the implementation on how much better it is.
Not leaking your wallet addresses, but downloading full blocks from nodes in the bitcoin p2p network, already makes it much better.

Obviously, there would be some attacks like monitoring which blocks are being downloaded and compare that to the transaction graph as mentioned in the bitconi-dev mailing list.
However, by connecting via TOR, downloading each block from a different node through a new circuit (what wasabi is actually doing), as well as choosing an appropriate false positive rate (for downloading blocks which do not contain any address of yours), that's a huge gain in privacy since a simple comparison to the transaction graph is not that easily possible anymore (downloaded via different IP's / tor circuits & downloaded from different nodes & false positive rate).

With that, it is no longer trivial to establish a connection between a specific wallet and its addresses.

It is required for you to keep the application open because you are required to sign the given transaction in a timely manner.
Every participant has to sign the transaction. Enqueuing and closing the wallet won't work.

That's why you need to confirm your input during the registration phase.
Once the time is over (or an anonymity set of 100 is reached), every user connects to a new tor circuit and sends the coordinator the output address and the blind signature.
After all participants did that, the coordinator builds the transaction and everyone has to sign it.

Since this is an interactive process, you need to be online when the mixing happens.
If you queue in right before the round starts, you'll be done in a minute. However, if a round just ended it takes up to 1 hour (or until 100 participants registered) until the coinjoin is being done.

I'm glad you got it sorted out.



Yes, electrum could have been a bit more precise.
It is more of a password protection than an additional seed word.

Without a password, an empty string ("") is being used.

This thread, together with the other thread is more than just suspicious.

Regarding the linked thread.. i mean come on.. Who receives a message saying "please send a message containing address X to account Y" and does exactly that.
This is either some kind of extremely stupid behavior or some kind of a reinsurance if you get called out (i.e. "i received the message and blindly did what the person i don't know requested").

I mean, alright. Benefit of the doubt.
But together with this here, i tend to believe it indeed was just a reinsurance for himself instead of just stupid behavior.

This is very well imaginable and the only thing i can think of why it is not being shown yet.
I just tested it myself (on the same machine, but removing all wallet files temporarily) and it worked fine (transaction was confirmed already).




Wasabi is following BIP39, so yes you can restore it in electrum (or any other wallet supporting BIP39):

• Choose "Standard wallet" and "I already have a Seed"
• Click on "Options" and tick the "BIP 39 Seed" and "Extend with custom words" box
• Enter your password in the seed extension window
• In the next window, choose "native segwit (p2wpkh)"

One of the most common mistakes probably would be entering the words of the mnemonic code in the wrong order.
They are not labeled like this:

01	02	03
04	05	06
07	08	09
10	11	12

but:

01	05	09
02	06	10
03	07	11
04	08	12

But since you were able to recreate your wallet using the mnemonic code and the passphrase, this seems quite odd to me.
If it shows the same xpub/zpub, it actually is the same wallet.


Did you already generate a receiving address in your 2nd wallet?

You already can bypass the captcha for free.
After logging in, you can visit https://bitcointalk.org/captcha_code.php.

You will get a custom URL which lets you log in into your account without solving a captcha.


Edit:
After reading your Post a second time, i might have misunderstood you.
Are you proposing that one should be able to pay a small fee (before registering) to be able to completely circumvent solving a captcha (i.e. not needed for registration and login) ?

@elmanchez

If you met him on another forum and he indeed is honest, why don't you then just finish the trade (assuming OP still wants to do that of course)?
Just use an reputable escrow (doesn't have to be DireWolfM14, if OP doesn't want to).

If OP is still willing to do it, you could easily show your good will and clear up all misunderstandings.


Shouldn't all parties be happy with that?

This seems a bit weird to me.
How were you able to do business with hip3r (bitcointalk account) with the telegramid @hip3r last week when he just registered less than 3 days ago ?




No confusion here. That's exactly what i wanted to be sure of because the story seems fishy.

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He just confirmed it: