Bitcoin Forum
June 16, 2024, 01:55:53 AM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: [1] 2 »  All
  Print  
Author Topic: Access wallet addresses easily, without storing private keys or security phrases  (Read 300 times)
scottii (OP)
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 804
Merit: 501


View Profile WWW
October 13, 2019, 05:42:23 PM
 #1

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of that one person who's device was stolen, or their computer was hacked, stealing wallet addresses, private keys, and even security phrases. Well, that happened to me after someone broke into my hotel room and stole my work laptop.  Fortunately, before they could figure out how to withdraw the funds out of my wallets, I was able to extract the funds and send them to entirely new address, but the difficult part of this was remembering the addresses.  Storing the addresses seemed unlikely, since other secure information would also be stored in the same location.  All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.

I'm not sure why, but most wallets do not have an address feature.  Having a one stop shop for all your wallets just make the entire use case easier, and I believe it's that would help attract new crypto users to support the industry and it's movement.  An address book like Digital Names saved me a lot of time to pull up saved files and find the needed address.  Oh, and this is not limited to one specific blockchain, so you can have different wallet address like BTC, ETH, STEEM, ETC, and so on...
bL4nkcode
Copper Member
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2142
Merit: 1305


Limited in number. Limitless in potential.


View Profile
October 13, 2019, 05:59:13 PM
 #2

All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.
I'm pretty sure mycelium do have an address book, where you can save your previous or future wallet to use in sending funds, there's an option will show once you're trying to send, from your clipboard, scan qr, and address book. Though it only accepts btc right now.
BitcoinGirl.Club
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2814
Merit: 2737


Farewell LEO: o_e_l_e_o


View Profile WWW
October 13, 2019, 06:01:05 PM
 #3

I'm not sure why, but most wallets do not have an address feature.  Having a one stop shop for all your wallets just make the entire use case easier, and I believe it's that would help attract new crypto users to support the industry and it's movement.  An address book like Digital Names saved me a lot of time to pull up saved files and find the needed address.  Oh, and this is not limited to one specific blockchain, so you can have different wallet address like BTC, ETH, STEEM, ETC, and so on...
In other words you are asking to store the wallet information in the cloud? Well this is the worse idea you can have with cryptocurrency. However if someone really feel the need then store then if any online drive but I can assure you that some day someone will find it.

Quote
I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of that one person who's device was stolen, or their computer was hacked, stealing wallet addresses, private keys, and even security phrases. Well, that happened to me after someone broke into my hotel room and stole my work laptop.  Fortunately, before they could figure out how to withdraw the funds out of my wallets, I was able to extract the funds and send them to entirely new address, but the difficult part of this was remembering the addresses.  Storing the addresses seemed unlikely, since other secure information would also be stored in the same location.  All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.
Well you can just keep a copy or several copy in several safe place instead of keeping everything in a single device. This seems very easy job to do.

Edit: Just visited the address and it seems like you are after promoting the said site.
Code:
https://www.digitalnames.io/?utm_source=cc

In this case this is not the right place my man. I advise you to move it to the appropriate section.

▄▄███████▄▄
▄██████████████▄
▄██████████████████▄
▄████▀▀▀▀███▀▀▀▀█████▄
▄█████████████▄█▀████▄
███████████▄███████████
██████████▄█▀███████████
██████████▀████████████
▀█████▄█▀█████████████▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███▄▄▄▄████▀
▀██████████████████▀
▀███████████████▀
▀▀███████▀▀
.
 MΞTAWIN  THE FIRST WEB3 CASINO   
.
.. PLAY NOW ..
nakamura12
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 2310
Merit: 671


View Profile
October 13, 2019, 09:00:08 PM
 #4

In other words you are asking to store the wallet information in the cloud? Well this is the worse idea you can have with cryptocurrency. However if someone really feel the need then store then if any online drive but I can assure you that some day someone will find it.
Storing your wallet information in the cloud is not highly recommended right?. As far as I know, saving in the cloud is not 100% safe at all but it indeed helps you to store something. My opinion about digital names well it is cool where you can shorten your wallet address but I wonder if it works normally or can be used to in another site where you want to send a coin to the shorten wallet address. Does it work normally?

Nakamura12 Sig Space and Avatar 4 Rent
Velkro
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2296
Merit: 1014



View Profile
October 13, 2019, 09:19:11 PM
 #5

In other words you are asking to store the wallet information in the cloud? Well this is the worse idea you can have with cryptocurrency.
Thats true because mysterious "cloud" is just someone's else computer. Now its not sounding good right? To store your crypto/private key there? Cheesy
People fall for marketing tricks like ICO/cloud/blockchain. Buzz words which are hiding truth behind it.
You need to know better than that, you need to get deeper beneth that.
GoldSpectre
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 11
Merit: 0


View Profile
October 14, 2019, 02:48:50 AM
 #6

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of that one person who's device was stolen, or their computer was hacked, stealing wallet addresses, private keys, and even security phrases. Well, that happened to me after someone broke into my hotel room and stole my work laptop.  Fortunately, before they could figure out how to withdraw the funds out of my wallets, I was able to extract the funds and send them to entirely new address, but the difficult part of this was remembering the addresses.  Storing the addresses seemed unlikely, since other secure information would also be stored in the same location.  All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.



I agree with you because myself have make mistake in sending out the my fund to wrong/incomplete address . I wish there's a solution to avoid this problem at 1st place
mk4
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2800
Merit: 3848


Paldo.io 🤖


View Profile
October 14, 2019, 03:46:03 AM
 #7

I think why sort of address features aren't being added on wallet apps is because it's really not a good idea(in a privacy standpoint) to be reusing wallet addresses. Hence why most wallet apps changes the displayed address after every time the wallet receives/sends funds.

In the first place, why does your laptop not have a login password?

█▀▀▀











█▄▄▄
▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
e
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
█████████████
████████████▄███
██▐███████▄█████▀
█████████▄████▀
███▐████▄███▀
████▐██████▀
█████▀█████
███████████▄
████████████▄
██▄█████▀█████▄
▄█████████▀█████▀
███████████▀██▀
████▀█████████
▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
c.h.
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
▀▀▀█











▄▄▄█
▄██████▄▄▄
█████████████▄▄
███████████████
███████████████
███████████████
███████████████
███░░█████████
███▌▐█████████
█████████████
███████████▀
██████████▀
████████▀
▀██▀▀
Bttzed03
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2114
Merit: 1149


https://bitcoincleanup.com/


View Profile
October 14, 2019, 03:51:07 AM
 #8

Story seems made up to me.

~snip
I agree with you because myself have make mistake in sending out the my fund to wrong/incomplete address . I wish there's a solution to avoid this problem at 1st place

  • Saving addresses on multiple devices or writing them on a paper
  • Double checking if you entered the correct address before sending.

It only becomes a problem when you become careless.
joniboini
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2226
Merit: 1795



View Profile WWW
October 14, 2019, 06:59:43 AM
 #9

I agree with you because myself have make mistake in sending out the my fund to wrong/incomplete address . I wish there's a solution to avoid this problem at 1st place

People can make thousand of mistakes; it's not possible to create a solution for all of them because it might open another security issue. So, the best solution is not to make any mistake at all.

If you're that lazy double-check, then you should not use crypto. Even the bank will not process your request asap if you make a mistake here and there due to your carelessness.

███████████████████████████
███████▄████████████▄██████
████████▄████████▄████████
███▀█████▀▄███▄▀█████▀███
█████▀█▀▄██▀▀▀██▄▀█▀█████
███████▄███████████▄███████
███████████████████████████
███████▀███████████▀███████
████▄██▄▀██▄▄▄██▀▄██▄████
████▄████▄▀███▀▄████▄████
██▄███▀▀█▀██████▀█▀███▄███
██▀█▀████████████████▀█▀███
███████████████████████████
.
.Duelbits.
..........UNLEASH..........
THE ULTIMATE
GAMING EXPERIENCE
DUELBITS
FANTASY
SPORTS
████▄▄█████▄▄
░▄████
███████████▄
▐███
███████████████▄
███
████████████████
███
████████████████▌
███
██████████████████
████████████████▀▀▀
███████████████▌
███████████████▌
████████████████
████████████████
████████████████
████▀▀███████▀▀
.
▬▬
VS
▬▬
████▄▄▄█████▄▄▄
░▄████████████████▄
▐██████████████████▄
████████████████████
████████████████████▌
█████████████████████
███████████████████
███████████████▌
███████████████▌
████████████████
████████████████
████████████████
████▀▀███████▀▀
/// PLAY FOR  FREE  ///
WIN FOR REAL
..PLAY NOW..
Pmalek
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2800
Merit: 7201



View Profile
October 14, 2019, 09:18:25 AM
 #10

Not sure if you are telling the truth or just promoting that site but do you think you were specifically targeted because of your crypto holdings?
In that case I would ask myself who knows that I am holding crypto on my computer and storing all the sensitive information there which is a very bad habit.   

.
.BLACKJACK ♠ FUN.
█████████
██████████████
████████████
█████████████████
████████████████▄▄
░█████████████▀░▀▀
██████████████████
░██████████████
████████████████
░██████████████
████████████
███████████████░██
██████████
CRYPTO CASINO &
SPORTS BETTING
▄▄███████▄▄
▄███████████████▄
███████████████████
█████████████████████
███████████████████████
█████████████████████████
█████████████████████████
█████████████████████████
███████████████████████
█████████████████████
███████████████████
▀███████████████▀
█████████
.
lesstoothless782
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 19
Merit: 0


View Profile
October 14, 2019, 04:43:27 PM
 #11

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of that one person who's device was stolen, or their computer was hacked, stealing wallet addresses, private keys, and even security phrases. Well, that happened to me after someone broke into my hotel room and stole my work laptop.  Fortunately, before they could figure out how to withdraw the funds out of my wallets, I was able to extract the funds and send them to entirely new address, but the difficult part of this was remembering the addresses.  Storing the addresses seemed unlikely, since other secure information would also be stored in the same location.  All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.

I'm not sure why, but most wallets do not have an address feature.  Having a one stop shop for all your wallets just make the entire use case easier, and I believe it's that would help attract new crypto users to support the industry and it's movement.  An address book like Digital Names saved me a lot of time to pull up saved files and find the needed address.  Oh, and this is not limited to one specific blockchain, so you can have different wallet address like BTC, ETH, STEEM, ETC, and so on...
I think that would be too hard especially if you really want to remember your address because the wallet address and the private keys are very long and this would probably became more harder because of the combinations of letters and numbers. It would really be better if you always have an copy or a back up of every wallet addresses that you have.
Assface16678
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 1414
Merit: 135


★Bitvest.io★ Play Plinko or Invest!


View Profile
October 14, 2019, 05:15:40 PM
 #12

It should rather be easy keeping a list of your addresses somewhere in you. Keeping it for yourself most of the time and guarding it would be the hard part since you aren't really used to doing such things. That or you could just safekeep it in a book, one that you could 100% guard or at least secure inside your house. These types of security measures should rather come as common to us but if someone was willing to create a project to make Addresses shorter and easier to remember then be my guest. But you should still keep up with such practices even with that kind of feature. Better safe than sorry after all.

hugeblack
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2548
Merit: 3769


View Profile WWW
October 14, 2019, 05:53:09 PM
 #13

I think the Blockchain.info wallet has something similar to that called Address tag (this address 168WXhArv7Fasqvi2xm5MQMfLhG18jifMe belongs to OgNasty.
This feature can be for explorers or wallets as some wallets do like Bitpay.
In general, this feature is not considered essential in cryptocurrencies because it is a fundamental flaw because these currencies are based on encryption.

you can do it manually or using local scripts
NeuroticFish
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 3710
Merit: 6420


Looking for campaign manager? Contact icopress!


View Profile
October 14, 2019, 06:16:19 PM
 #14

There's a service based on blockchain that does this. It's based on ziliqa and it's called "unstoppable domains".
And there's OpenAlias. And there are probably more.

And there are view-only addresses in the wallet of your choice, just to have them at hand.
And there are notes inside your phone.
And there is paper you can write or print on.

Of course, addresses without private keys can stay on cloud too, just make sure you don't put there private keys or mnemonic phrases.


... and there's this new thing that looks like an ICO.
LoL!

█████████████████████████
████▐██▄█████████████████
████▐██████▄▄▄███████████
████▐████▄█████▄▄████████
████▐█████▀▀▀▀▀███▄██████
████▐███▀████████████████
████▐█████████▄█████▌████
████▐██▌█████▀██████▌████
████▐██████████▀████▌████
█████▀███▄█████▄███▀█████
███████▀█████████▀███████
██████████▀███▀██████████
█████████████████████████
.
BC.GAME
▄▄░░░▄▀▀▄████████
▄▄▄
██████████████
█████░░▄▄▄▄████████
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄██▄██████▄▄▄▄████
▄███▄█▄▄██████████▄████▄████
███████████████████████████▀███
▀████▄██▄██▄░░░░▄████████████
▀▀▀█████▄▄▄███████████▀██
███████████████████▀██
███████████████████▄██
▄███████████████████▄██
█████████████████████▀██
██████████████████████▄
.
..CASINO....SPORTS....RACING..
Harlot
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 1806
Merit: 672


View Profile
October 14, 2019, 06:30:52 PM
 #15

You really don't have anything to worry about if your private keys and passphrases are not stored with the same laptop, because for a man who can afford a hotel room I'm pretty confident to say that you know how to protect your cryptos in your laptop and I don't think an address book would have any help with this situation. It's only purpose is store addresses you have and maybe for the purposes of other transactions, this won't be any different compared to saving this addresses on Google Keeps since the hackers won't have any use of it and a public address won't give them any kind of access to your wallet.
Motorista
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 19
Merit: 0


View Profile
October 14, 2019, 06:38:37 PM
 #16

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of that one person who's device was stolen, or their computer was hacked, stealing wallet addresses, private keys, and even security phrases. Well, that happened to me after someone broke into my hotel room and stole my work laptop.  Fortunately, before they could figure out how to withdraw the funds out of my wallets, I was able to extract the funds and send them to entirely new address, but the difficult part of this was remembering the addresses.  Storing the addresses seemed unlikely, since other secure information would also be stored in the same location.  All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.

I'm not sure why, but most wallets do not have an address feature.  Having a one stop shop for all your wallets just make the entire use case easier, and I believe it's that would help attract new crypto users to support the industry and it's movement.  An address book like Digital Names saved me a lot of time to pull up saved files and find the needed address.  Oh, and this is not limited to one specific blockchain, so you can have different wallet address like BTC, ETH, STEEM, ETC, and so on...
Most crypto users face this kind of problems in mistyping their crypto wallet addresses because it is too long and complicated that makes it hard to remember or to memorize their wallet address, that is why it will be helpful if there will be a technology that will convert your long wallet address into a simple and short wallet address.
Jiddyyy
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 77
Merit: 0


View Profile
October 14, 2019, 06:59:43 PM
 #17

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of that one person who's device was stolen, or their computer was hacked, stealing wallet addresses, private keys, and even security phrases. Well, that happened to me after someone broke into my hotel room and stole my work laptop.  Fortunately, before they could figure out how to withdraw the funds out of my wallets, I was able to extract the funds and send them to entirely new address, but the difficult part of this was remembering the addresses.  Storing the addresses seemed unlikely, since other secure information would also be stored in the same location.  All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.

I'm not sure why, but most wallets do not have an address feature.  Having a one stop shop for all your wallets just make the entire use case easier, and I believe it's that would help attract new crypto users to support the industry and it's movement.  An address book like Digital Names saved me a lot of time to pull up saved files and find the needed address.  Oh, and this is not limited to one specific blockchain, so you can have different wallet address like BTC, ETH, STEEM, ETC, and so on...
We are used to copy addresses when sending some coins to other wallet but come to think of it that there is Digital Names that can help you to make every transaction easier, no need to copy the address itself, it is more fast and secure for me. The idea was literally awesome.
panganib999
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 1736
Merit: 589


View Profile WWW
October 15, 2019, 04:04:10 AM
 #18

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of that one person who's device was stolen, or their computer was hacked, stealing wallet addresses, private keys, and even security phrases. Well, that happened to me after someone broke into my hotel room and stole my work laptop.  Fortunately, before they could figure out how to withdraw the funds out of my wallets, I was able to extract the funds and send them to entirely new address, but the difficult part of this was remembering the addresses.  Storing the addresses seemed unlikely, since other secure information would also be stored in the same location.  All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.

I'm not sure why, but most wallets do not have an address feature.  Having a one stop shop for all your wallets just make the entire use case easier, and I believe it's that would help attract new crypto users to support the industry and it's movement.  An address book like Digital Names saved me a lot of time to pull up saved files and find the needed address.  Oh, and this is not limited to one specific blockchain, so you can have different wallet address like BTC, ETH, STEEM, ETC, and so on...
Beginners, of all people, are prone to this kind of crime for they are so naive about the process and what kind of system and approach could work in crypto space. They must assure themselves of the knowledge needed for them to survive what they are entering and of course, they must know who they could trust and rely upon, same goes with what platforms and third-party websites they should trust.
pleasedont
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 20
Merit: 0


View Profile
October 15, 2019, 09:36:30 AM
 #19

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of that one person who's device was stolen, or their computer was hacked, stealing wallet addresses, private keys, and even security phrases. Well, that happened to me after someone broke into my hotel room and stole my work laptop.  Fortunately, before they could figure out how to withdraw the funds out of my wallets, I was able to extract the funds and send them to entirely new address, but the difficult part of this was remembering the addresses.  Storing the addresses seemed unlikely, since other secure information would also be stored in the same location.  All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.

I'm not sure why, but most wallets do not have an address feature.  Having a one stop shop for all your wallets just make the entire use case easier, and I believe it's that would help attract new crypto users to support the industry and it's movement.  An address book like Digital Names saved me a lot of time to pull up saved files and find the needed address.  Oh, and this is not limited to one specific blockchain, so you can have different wallet address like BTC, ETH, STEEM, ETC, and so on...
We are used to copy addresses when sending some coins to other wallet but come to think of it that there is Digital Names that can help you to make every transaction easier, no need to copy the address itself, it is more fast and secure for me. The idea was literally awesome.
Copying is pasting is pretty easy, but what makes it hard is the way of character selection. I still get nervous when sending funds to different addresses. Personalized address is awesome, can't wait to get one.
wambowambo
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 22
Merit: 1


View Profile
October 15, 2019, 01:37:04 PM
 #20

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of that one person who's device was stolen, or their computer was hacked, stealing wallet addresses, private keys, and even security phrases. Well, that happened to me after someone broke into my hotel room and stole my work laptop.  Fortunately, before they could figure out how to withdraw the funds out of my wallets, I was able to extract the funds and send them to entirely new address, but the difficult part of this was remembering the addresses.  Storing the addresses seemed unlikely, since other secure information would also be stored in the same location.  All I really wanted to was keep an address book to help pay certain vendors and also make deposits into my own accounts.

I'm not sure why, but most wallets do not have an address feature.  Having a one stop shop for all your wallets just make the entire use case easier, and I believe it's that would help attract new crypto users to support the industry and it's movement.  An address book like Digital Names saved me a lot of time to pull up saved files and find the needed address.  Oh, and this is not limited to one specific blockchain, so you can have different wallet address like BTC, ETH, STEEM, ETC, and so on...
The moment that you can convert your address into readable letters, that is really great since you can now easily memorize it and to avoid mistakes on every transaction that you are going to do.
Pages: [1] 2 »  All
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!