Help me? I may be fucked up

[realdawgguy]

I don't know any other section in here to post this.

I recently went in my blockchain app, went in the  section "Addresses" and added in the section of "Important Addresses" a random address to test what it was, i literally went on internet and typed "btc bar code" and added it. I'm very scared that now the owner of the adddress i marked as "important" in this section can steal my funds, i have a few coins and it took my a life to get them i'm scared to death, should i just transfer the money to another wallet or do i keep in my wallet? help me please

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[Csmiami]

First of all, please, take a deep breath. Nothing is going to happen to your coins.

You clicked "Import address" on the app, and that makes the following:

- If you import a private key, you will have control over that address on blockachin; example: you create a wallet on Electrum, send funds to one of the addresses, and the import the private key to Blockchain to use the funds.

- If you import a public key, or scan a QR of a pubkey, you will only "monitor" that address; you will be able to see when it receives or sends funds, and what address sends and receives, but won't have any control over the address itself.

In any none of the above cases can the "owner" of an address you import take control of your funds

[realdawgguy]

First of all, please, take a deep breath. Nothing is going to happen to your coins.

You clicked "Import address" on the app, and that makes the following:

- If you import a private key, you will have control over that address on blockachin; example: you create a wallet on Electrum, send funds to one of the addresses, and the import the private key to Blockchain to use the funds.

- If you import a public key, or scan a QR of a pubkey, you will only "monitor" that address; you will be able to see when it receives or sends funds, and what address sends and receives, but won't have any control over the address itself.

In any of the above cases can the "owner" of an address you import take control of your funds

"In any of the above cases can the "owner" of an address you import take control of your funds" wdym with this quote?

Yeah i imported a random address with 0 btc, i filed the address i imported. So you say that nothing can happen to my funds?

[nutildah]

Yeah i imported a random address with 0 btc, i filed the address i imported. So you say that nothing can happen to my funds?

Nope. Whoever that address belongs to doesn't have control of your coins as they do not have access to your private keys. Your coins are fine.

You are screwed, you will probably log in and find ZERO coins in your account  

And don't pay attention to this idiot. His account should be nuked for trolling.

[Csmiami]

"In any of the above cases can the "owner" of an address you import take control of your funds" wdym with this quote?

I consider the owner of an address as the person or people in possesion of a private key (only for non multi-sign addresses), so if someone posts a private key, that address now belongs to whoever wants to import and use it, be it empty or not. That's why it's important to keep your private key and seed really private

And lol. I meant in NONE of the above cases, editing it now.....

[jademaxsuy]

I don't know any other section in here to post this.

I recently went in my blockchain app, went in the  section "Addresses" and added in the section of "Important Addresses" a random address to test what it was, i literally went on internet and typed "btc bar code" and added it. I'm very scared that now the owner of the adddress i marked as "important" in this section can steal my funds, i have a few coins and it took my a life to get them i'm scared to death, should i just transfer the money to another wallet or do i keep in my wallet? help me please

You don't have to be afraid about your bitcoins getting stolen because the only way to steak your funds is through copy paste/clipboard hijacking malware and if the person who is going to steal your bitcoin knows the important detail of your account like private key or seed will surely get your bitcoin unless it is a different case where you imported an address then you send btc to it and you don't have full control of the said address then it's lost.

Do you have full control of the address that you used to store all your btc? If yes then don't worrt and be calm. If no, then nothing else you can do to get it back.

[nc50lc]

went in the  section "Addresses" and added in the section of "Important Addresses" a random address to test what it was, i literally went on internet and typed "btc bar code" and added it.

Your post is a bit unclear.

Just answer these questions:

• 1. Is it really "Important Addresses" or "Imported Addresses"? Because there's no Important Address section in blockchain()com site.
• 2. Does the tag after that address said "Non-Spendable"?
• 3. Did you sent bitcoins to that address before or just to your wallet's other addresses?
  (check the address' balance in the 'settings->wallets & addresses')
• 4. Lastly, what's the exact URL of that "blockchain" site?

Answering those will surely solve most of your dilemmas and questions.

[Shimmiry]

I don't know any other section in here to post this.

I recently went in my blockchain app, went in the  section "Addresses" and added in the section of "Important Addresses" a random address to test what it was, i literally went on internet and typed "btc bar code" and added it. I'm very scared that now the owner of the adddress i marked as "important" in this section can steal my funds, i have a few coins and it took my a life to get them i'm scared to death, should i just transfer the money to another wallet or do i keep in my wallet? help me please

Calm yourself down because the owner of that address do not have any access to your wallet. So he cannot do any transactions to your wallet, he can't steal from you. You only marked that wallet as important so you can monitor it. That's it. no need to worry, unless you've given your wallet details on that person.

[JohnBitCo]

I don't know any other section in here to post this.

I recently went in my blockchain app, went in the  section "Addresses" and added in the section of "Important Addresses" a random address to test what it was, i literally went on internet and typed "btc bar code" and added it. I'm very scared that now the owner of the adddress i marked as "important" in this section can steal my funds, i have a few coins and it took my a life to get them i'm scared to death, should i just transfer the money to another wallet or do i keep in my wallet? help me please

Although you have done nothing wrong and you wallets/coins are safe as most of people have replied you above me.

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Seeing this question one more question arises in my mind that if anyone by mistake copies the private key and search it in the blockchain search bar, does it get recorded anywhere ? 

[Csmiami]

Seeing this question one more question arises in my mind that if anyone by mistake copies the private key and search it in the blockchain search bar, does it get recorded anywhere ? 

Of course; I don't think they will be displayed publicly, but at least google will have them recorded and stored, like everything you search on their browser/search engine

[JohnBitCo]

Seeing this question one more question arises in my mind that if anyone by mistake copies the private key and search it in the blockchain search bar, does it get recorded anywhere ? 

Of course; I don't think they will be displayed publicly, but at least google will have them recorded and stored, like everything you search on their browser/search engine

So if by the end of the day, they (google staff or blockchain.info staff)  search for their database, they could find the private keys ? That is really dangerous and people can lose their funds by their little mistakes like this.

[Csmiami]

So if by the end of the day, they (google staff or blockchain.info staff)  search for their database, they could find the private keys ? That is really dangerous and people can lose their funds by their little mistakes like this.

And that's why the use of web-wallets, using exchanges as wallets and similar behaviour is highly discouraged, you are not really in control of your private keys. As for searching the private key on google... if you do it and loose your funds, you really had it coming...

To prevent this, always use either hardware wallets or open-source coded desktop wallets (electrum, core) and never copy paste your private keys into a browser, or even with a browser open (I'm sure more restrictions to this could be applied, but I don't know them all).

[joniboini]

So if by the end of the day, they (google staff or blockchain.info staff)  search for their database, they could find the private keys ? That is really dangerous and people can lose their funds by their little mistakes like this.

(Legit) Non-custodial web wallets don't store your private key. They probably store your wallet ID, e-mail, and some stuff like that, but not your seed and private key. Well, in theory, they could store it but there's no way we can verify it. This is why using a web wallet even if they said they won't store your private key is a no-no for some people.

[mikeywith]

For the safety of your funds, you should always ACT when you "feel the heat", imagine whatever you did right there did actually put your coins at risk, what did you expect? whoever had access to your funds would actually wait for you to ask the question and find answers?

If you had a feeling or any sign that your Email might have been compromised, what do you do? do you ask a question or go straight away to change the email's password?  and that is merely an Email, let alone funds that can't be charged-back like crypto, so please next time, don't attempt doing something you don't understand, and if you suspect that your coins may be in danger for any reason - ACT first and then you can ask online.

[pooya87]

So if by the end of the day, they (google staff or blockchain.info staff)  search for their database, they could find the private keys ? That is really dangerous and people can lose their funds by their little mistakes like this.

(Legit) Non-custodial web wallets don't store your private key. They probably store your wallet ID, e-mail, and some stuff like that, but not your seed and private key. Well, in theory, they could store it but there's no way we can verify it. This is why using a web wallet even if they said they won't store your private key is a no-no for some people.

those types of web wallets do store your private keys but they store it in encrypted form. what happens is that you create the private keys (or the seed) locally in your browser then set a password again in your browser and encrypt it there too. then the encrypted result is uploaded to their servers for storage.
each time you want to use your coins you download that encrypted wallet file and decrypt it in your browser to use.

[alik111]

I don't know any other section in here to post this.

I recently went in my blockchain app, went in the  section "Addresses" and added in the section of "Important Addresses" a random address to test what it was, i literally went on internet and typed "btc bar code" and added it. I'm very scared that now the owner of the adddress i marked as "important" in this section can steal my funds, i have a few coins and it took my a life to get them i'm scared to death, should i just transfer the money to another wallet or do i keep in my wallet? help me please

I think you should transfer your funds as soon as possible because in case of Crypto funds we should not take any risk at all.And using another Blockchain wallet is very easy and safe too.

[mocacinno]

@realdawgguy, you only made two posts, the second one does need some clarification

--snip-- i filed the address i imported. --snip--

Did you mean you filled the address you imported? Like "Funded" this address, send funds to the imported address you scanned from a barcode on the internet???


or, as nc50lc already asked:

--snip--

• 3. Did you sent bitcoins to that address before or just to your wallet's other addresses?
  --snip--
  

In this case, you might be in trouble... You created a watch-only wallet by imported the address. You cannot spend any funds that are funding said address since you don't have the private key. Any funds sent to the address you found on the internet are only spendable by whoever generated that barcode (if he still possesses the private key).

If you did this, start by saving your browser history and find out where you found the barcode. Maybe it's an example barcode and the seed, xprv or private key is printed in the vicinity? Maybe there's an owner you can contact and explain what happened (if he's an honest person, he might reimburse you).

I just hope this worst case scenario isn't the reality...

[nutildah]

For the safety of your funds, you should always ACT when you "feel the heat", imagine whatever you did right there did actually put your coins at risk, what did you expect? whoever had access to your funds would actually wait for you to ask the question and find answers?

If you had a feeling or any sign that your Email might have been compromised, what do you do? do you ask a question or go straight away to change the email's password?  and that is merely an Email, let alone funds that can't be charged-back like crypto, so please next time, don't attempt doing something you don't understand, and if you suspect that your coins may be in danger for any reason - ACT first and then you can ask online.

Frankly I don't understand why people keep replying to OP and muddying the issue. The question was thoroughly answered in the first reply.

I disagree with your approach.

By importing an address not in your control into a blockchain.com wallet, you do not put your own funds at risk in any way! However, by moving your coins out of unfounded fear you do put those coins potentially in harms way as your private keys are being utilized and you run the risk of making an error out of panic.

Of course its better to have an understanding of something before you do it, but in this instance, OP's coins were never in danger for one minute.

[mikeywith]

Frankly I don't understand why people keep replying to OP and muddying the issue. The question was thoroughly answered in the first reply.

Ironically, you replied twice to this topic (so far)، after the question "was thoroughly answered in the first reply."  

By importing an address not in your control into a blockchain.com wallet, you do not put your own funds at risk in any way!

Nobody stated the contrary.

However, by moving your coins out of unfounded fear you do put those coins potentially in harms way as your private keys are being utilized and you run the risk of making an error out of panic.

This is based on the assumption that the person actually knows their coins are not at risk, in that case, they wouldn't be asking anyone for that matter, but if someone feels like they have done something that might put their coins at risk, they should act immediately, of course with both calmness and cautiousness.

In other words, assuming 'hypothetically' that importing an address into a wallet puts your coins at risk, and by disagreeing to my approach, are you suggesting that he shouldn't act accordingly and take all the time in the world to ask questions while his funds are at risk?

[Onuohakk]

Who asked you to do so. Trying something new is not a bad idea but before you start doing something new, you first of all have a little knowledge of it and how it works. Next time you might loose something bigger if not groomed