Wallets & Security

I’m running two setups for Bitcoin Core. One on my main laptop for syncing the blockchain, and another offline for my private keys. The offline one…

Hey guys, I got a OneKey Classic 1s cold wallet. Everything seems fine but there's this weird issue. Whenever I try to receive Bitcoin, it keeps…

Hey all, I’m feeling pretty hopeless about getting back the BTC I mined ages ago. I’d love some solid advice to finally put this behind me. So here’s…

Hey everyone, I'm having trouble restoring my Bitcoin Core wallet from another machine. When I try using my.dat file, I get this error: "Wallet…

I was looking into the mempool since I heard it's congested. Found some transactions marked as Full RBF and others just as RBF. I don't think I’ve…

Something strange is happening with my wallets. I'm digging through old USB drives and loaded a wallet.dat file into Bitcoin Core on two different…

So, HD wallets are way better, right? Especially with generating addresses just from a public key. But I kinda miss my old legacy wallets. Backing…

I’m trying to get my head around how OP Returns work with my Electrum wallet. I can’t figure out how to put the hex code into the ‘Pay To’ field…

What wallets are you all using on desktop and mobile these days? I'm on Electrum and Bluewallet.

Every two weeks, the DAA checks how many blocks were mined and compares that with what should've been mined based on a ten-minute target. If there…

So I've been looking for a straightforward way to create a paper wallet on a Linux machine that doesn't use a GUI. Here’s what I figured out: 1. You…

Hey all, I really need some help here. Gonna give 20% of whatever I can recover to anyone who can guide me. Here's the deal: I bought some BTC with a…

I found this old file on my hard drive from 2017 called "mystery wallet" with no extension. Back then, I was messing around with cryptocurrencies and…

Another day, another exit scam. This time it’s a Nigerian wallet that vanished with over a million bucks. Who even uses these shady wallets?…

Hey everyone I’m having a bit of a problem. A while back I had issues with my blockchain.info wallet and got some great help here. Now I’ve imported…

It’s clear why new wallet.dat is better: descriptors come with cool features like PSBT, easy watch-only wallets, plus no backups needed since you get…

hey guys having a major issue here 1) got a full node running but I keep getting this "leveldb read failure corruption block checksum mismatch" and…

Hey everyone, I’ve got a bitcoin wallet from 2013 with some files and keys but I can’t seem to access it properly. All the wallets I opened are…

Hey everyone! I could really use some help here. I run a few small stores selling phones and electronics, and I also exchange cash for Bitcoin using…

I was digging into mempool stuff lately and decided to try out the mainnet. But I've hit a wall. My node needs to finish the initial block download…

I’ve been looking around and can't find any way to generate a master key from a password. You know like those brain wallets that create private keys…

So my transaction with 0.26 BTC just got rejected after being stuck for a whole year. It doesn’t show in my wallet anymore. Here's the transaction…

So I did a little test and need some help. I created a wallet on an airgapped PC using Bitcoin Core. I made a receiving address and sent some sats…

Altbase Wallet is your control over assets. It’s a desktop wallet for managing digital currencies, with no need for accounts or sign-ups.

I’m trying to sync the blockchain on my old laptop with Debian + Raspiblitz and it’s super slow. There used to be a site to download the whole…