Correct... again, it is an effort to speed up the recovery phrase entry process (and to prevent entering incorrect words).


Note to everyone else... I've been assisting jerry0 in PM, and it turns out he was entering the word incorrectly, which is why it was not showing the correct word in the list of word to choose from

I have just now reset my device to test this, because I haven't had to restore it in a while, and the word entry process is indeed different from what I remember...

However, I just start entering letters, and it generally seems to get to the 2nd or 3rd letter before giving me the word list to scroll through to find the word I want. I did not have any issues with words not showing up.

Some of them had 5 or 6 options that I had to scroll through to find the actual word I wanted to enter, but they were all there.


Also, for the love of bitcoin... STOP multiposting! just edit your previous post if you need to add something!

They did that to speed up the recovery process. Saves a LOT of clicking


Have you checked if that word is in the BIP39 wordlist? Refer: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt

If it isn't, you wrote the word down incorrectly.

Can you keep typing in letters? or can you only select words at this point?

I'm not sure what you mean by this? -txindex is a commandline argument used at start-up for bitcoind/Bitcoin Core GUI. You don't pass that to bitcoin-cli or use it in an RPC call.


The "used by the getrawtransaction rpc call" part means that the rpc call is using the transaction index, NOT the argument

Glad to hear that you managed to recover using one of your seed mnemonics.


Depends on your use-case... if you require portability, or desire to keep the wallets out of your %AppData% or C: drive location etc, then portable might be the answer, otherwise I would recommend the "installer", it's simple and "clean" and is less likely to cause issues later down the track.


NO!!!  Nein, nyet, NEGATIVE! DO NOT do this... EVER! If you have, you should create a new wallet with a completely new seed mnemonic (that is NOT stored digitally) and move all your coins. This forum is littered with posts from users who lost all their coins because they had taken screenshots of their seed mnemonic, or written it in a txt/word document on their PC or put it in an email/IM message etc. DO NOT store your seed mnemonic digitally. Keep it "offline".


DO do this! double check your work...

Quote for truth...

Seriously jerry0, it's good that you're being cautious, but you are wayyyyyyyyyyyy overthinking all this. Just follow the instructions on the Ledger website (or that came with the device) to restore your device.

Refer: https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005434914-Restore-from-recovery-phrase


After you have reset the device (or the very first time you plug it in), it'll give you the "Welcome to Ledger Nano S" screen with the "Restore from recovery phrase" option, simply select that, enter your 24 word seed and you're set.

That's all there is to it.

You can't "stake" bitcoin, like you can with some altcoins to try and earn coins if that is what you're thinking

What users are doing here is staking their bitcoin address for future reference... the idea being that by digitally signing a message using the private key for that address, they are proving "ownership" of the address.

In the future, should their account get hacked/locked or they want to do a trade/deal with someone who wants proof they're the "original" account owner and not an imposter on Telegram etc, they can prove their identity by signing a message using the same bitcoin address/private key.

Correct, stop() will halt the entire script... and the only way to restart it is to click the start button, or manually type start() in the console.

To "start it from the beginning" you just have to re-initialise all the variable like chance, nextbet, bethigh (and any others that you may have modified during runtime) back to the original values that you set at the very beginning of your script.

Then, when dobet() runs again, it'll be like your script just started

Yes... I should have mentioned that you're not likely to see any errors, but all the output will go to wallet.txt file.

In wallet.txt you might see a few hundred lines of weird errors like "Wallet data unknown" or something similar at the start... then you should see all the keydata output similar to this:

The private keys in WIF format are highlighted above... in the "sec" field... you need to import those into the wallet of your choice.

Can I ask why you keep putting "spaces" in your posts? It's kinda confusing and difficult to tell if you're copy/pasting things which are "incorrect" or if it's just the way you're typing your posts!

Anyway... try and copy/paste this entire command exactly as it is shown:

Firstly, sorry for your loss.


There wasn't/isn't "server side broadcast messaging". The "bad" servers are simply sending an error response back to the client when it attempts to broadcast a transaction. The flaw is that the error response was printed verbatim and "rich text" was enabled, allowing URLs to be embedded.


It's not your fault for not updating... it's your fault for not verifying the update (and, to a lesser extent, not downloading from the official download site). If you have bothered to verify the digital signature of the downloaded installer, you would not have fallen victim to this scam.

Again, sorry for your loss.

Probably because there isn't just one command for creating the hash... it's just a SHA256 hash output of the initial entropy "ENT", so you are free to get this output in any way you seem fit... commandline shell tools, Python script, C++/C# libraries, Javascript, online website etc... It all comes down to how you are implementing/using the BIP39 process.

What's very odd with that one is that they even threw a couple of commas in, in some sort of half-hearted attempt at punctuation... so, it would appear that at least one of the punctuation keys on their keyboard works at least

Correct, pretty much all of the hardware wallets that I can think of utilise BIP39 wordlists for mnemonic generation and wallet recovery. I am fairly confident that any hardware wallet you buy will reject your 12 words due to the fact that you have non-BIP39 words in it.


No, it doesn't. Ian Coleman's Mnemonic Code Converter works using BIP39 mnemonic word lists. It will be of no use to your if you have words that are not in the BIP39 wordlist.

Based on what you've written, the command (with proper spacing) should be:

NOTE: This command should be used in the folder where pywallet.py is located!

Also, is the wallet file actually called "walletfile.dat"? or is it the standard "wallet.dat"? Obviously, it's very important you type the correct filename! If you don't use the correct filename for the --wallet argument you will indeed get the error:
As, obviously, the script will be unable to locate the file


If you tell me:

1. The folder where Python.exe is located
2. The folder where pywallet.py is located
3. The folder where "wallet.dat" is located
4. The actual name of your wallet.dat

I will be able to give you the commandline to run that should dump the wallet contents for you.

You shouldn't attempt to run PyWallet with Python 3.8 (Python 3.x introduced a LOT of non-backwards compatible changes that can break a lot of scripts that were written for Python 2.x)... Note that Pywallet was written for Python 2.7.

So, I'd recommend uninstalling Python 3.8 (assuming you don't need it for anything else), and then installing the latest version of Python 2.7 for your OS from here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2718/

Once you have Python 2.7 installed, if you continue to get errors relating to "ecdsa", you need to install the "ecdsa" package using "PIP":

NOTE: pip.exe should be located in the "Scripts" folder where python.exe is located (by default, Python 2.7 installs to C:\Python27... so pip would be in C:\Python27\Scripts)

Wait what? They track an individual's payments based purely on TransactionID?

That seems like a recipe for disaster!!?! And also prevents users from using RBF etc

Possibly their algorithm works on a rolling average of X/Y/Z blocks for the three different fee levels... and it might just be that at "Low" it is looking at a slightly different grouping of blocks which have ridiculously high fees compared to the "Medium" set of blocks.

But yes, that would appear to be pretty broken, there should never be a situation where "Low" fee is higher than "Medium", that's just silly

If you were using Electrum Portable .exe, then the wallet storage is created in the same location as the portable .exe... it isn't stored in the "AppData\Roaming\Electrum" folder...

So, I'm a little confused by your description of the issue... you had Electrum on a second partition, and you wiped the primary partition? If so, and your second partition is untouched, then your wallet should not have been affected at all.

Or were you using the Electrum standalone .exe?   The "standalone" .exe does use "AppData\Roaming\Electrum" folder for data and wallet storage.

All of that is going to be very problematic You've somehow withdrawn to a "watching-only" wallet that you do not have the private keys/seed mnemonic for. Until you get access to the private key(s) for that wallet, you will be unable to spend those coins.

I don't use Binance, so I'm not overly familiar with their products. Does the "Binance Wallet" you're using not ask for an address when you initiate the withdrawal? Does it have a "stored" withdrawal address that it automatically sends coins to when you request a withdrawal?


There are hundreds (if not thousands) of wallets and "platforms" that you might have generated a wallet on and got the Master Public Key from... trying to track down the exact wallet software or website you used is going to be VERY difficult.

Do you have any notes anywhere that include a 12/24 word recovery seed mnemonic? The fact that you used a Master Public Key in Electrum would indicate that the source of that key is likely a BIP39 compatible wallet. These generally provide 12 or 24 word recover seed mnemonics...

Also, I'm wondering if you used Blockchain.com (previously blockchain.info) and tried to "export" your wallet? With their HD wallets, it has a "show XPUB" option:


It's one of the few wallets that make it somewhat easy to actually find/display your XPUB.