Wallets & Security
Storage, privacy, protecting your assets.
I just found my old wallet.dat file from ages ago. Ran it through pywallet and I got this message: "The wallet is encrypted but no passphrase is…
Started by dan23 · Jul 2, 2020, 04:05 PM · 3 / 4043404by 0xChadJul 2, 2020, 11:27 PMI need help with blockchain.com. Created my wallet in 2013 and have about 0.15 BTC. I’ve got the original email and the 18-word recovery phrase, but…
Started by GrimVault · Jan 20, 2020, 05:47 AM · 5 / 1415141by 0xChadJan 23, 2020, 02:04 AMQuantum computers are coming, huh? I've heard they might crack those old Bitcoin private keys. What about wallets like Satoshi's? Those are just…
Started by just_laser · Jan 12, 2020, 04:35 PM · 17 / 45017450by ben.matrixJan 19, 2020, 03:54 AMI’m trying to figure out how to list all non-zero wallet addresses and their balances from the blockchain using Python. Would love to include extra…
Started by greg.wolf · Jan 9, 2020, 06:25 AM · 4 / 3914391by orbit1337Jan 12, 2020, 03:06 AMThe latest files here only go back to version 0.9.5. Check it out here: bitcoin.org/bin/ There's also 0.8.6 in a folder labeled (insecure), but…
Started by alpha23 · Nov 26, 2019, 11:04 PM · 9 / 2849284by 0xChadDec 3, 2019, 10:12 AMHow can I find out the core wallet version for an old wallet.dat file? I got some backups and wanna make sure I'm using the right version before…
Started by bridge_2016 · Aug 23, 2019, 11:09 PM · 1 / 2321232by 0xChadAug 24, 2019, 03:20 AMHey everyone, I've been using the blockchain.com wallet for years, receiving crypto without a hitch. But recently, I noticed something weird. Up…
Started by r34l_gwei · Aug 15, 2019, 05:13 PM · 7 / 4487448by CryptoBitAug 16, 2019, 11:08 PMHey everyone, kinda lost here. How do I use Electrum on my phone? I feel safer doing transactions on mobile, but I can't figure out sending or…
Started by al3x.ledg3r · Aug 12, 2019, 01:07 PM · 4 / 4664466by al3x.ledg3rAug 12, 2019, 07:23 PMThere’s really a lot to gain with asymmetric weighted multi-sig wallets. It’s like you have keys where not all of them are equal. For example, in a…
Started by ben365 · Aug 4, 2019, 08:40 AM · 8 / 4958495by mr_apeAug 5, 2019, 07:14 PMgetbestblockhash gives back the latest mined block hash. But what happens when two blocks are sent at the same time? You end up with two chains at…
Started by dave.fork · Jul 15, 2019, 12:46 PM · 3 / 2113211by cobra51Jul 16, 2019, 12:16 AMSaw a tweet about a musician G.love who lost almost 6 BTC using a fake Ledger wallet from the Mac App Store. ZachXBT said he traced the coins and…
Started by wagmi · Jun 18, 2019, 07:14 PM · 20 / 49920499by ben.matrixJun 25, 2019, 03:00 PMI need a reliable base wallet account owner for a collab. Anyone interested? Hit me up on WhatsApp +13122033380! 😊
Started by calmsigma · Jun 7, 2019, 09:20 PM · 1 / 4951495by sat_s4geJun 8, 2019, 02:02 AMHey guys, I'm looking for some advice on recovering a really old wallet.dat from late 2010 that has 8.5 BTC in it. I’ve extracted the hash, but I'm…
Started by AtomicMaxi · Apr 9, 2019, 10:15 PM · 11 / 12811128by nick.omegaApr 14, 2019, 09:11 AMI'm trying to get into my blockchain wallet but keep getting this "recovery error" after entering my recovery phrase. It also stopped sending me…
Started by ju5t_chad · Mar 16, 2019, 02:03 AM · 15 / 861586by the_satMar 23, 2019, 02:19 PMJust saw Arkham has outed the Bitcoin wallets for Blackrock, Fidelity and a couple others. That's some big news, fam. Finally gonna see where all…
Started by plankton · Jan 21, 2019, 08:10 AM · 5 / 1355135by planktonJan 22, 2019, 10:52 PMGot a bunch of old wallet.dat files lying around and they probably empty... trying to check their balances without syncing the whole blockchain every…
Started by 0xYi3ld · Jan 5, 2019, 08:09 AM · 4 / 1934193by gang2015Jan 5, 2019, 06:11 PMHey everyone, So I tried to get 200EUR in BTC to my wallet yesterday. I clicked on the receive button and shared the address, but the BTC never…
Started by hash2019 · Dec 22, 2018, 08:56 PM · 12 / 12312123by f0rk_5tackDec 31, 2018, 06:36 PMHey all, I could use some expert help here. I'm trying to access multisig outputs from a particular transaction and I have tons like it. Looking to…
Started by chris23 · Dec 22, 2018, 01:38 PM · 20 / 38620386by ben.matrixDec 27, 2018, 11:30 AMSo, I’ve been thinking... are seed phrases really that secure? Like, I know the BIP39 list has 2048 words. But could someone crack it using a…
Started by cyberdiamond · Nov 30, 2018, 03:58 PM · 21 / 282128by ben.matrixDec 12, 2018, 07:51 AMHey there. I have 5 wallets on my Ledger Nano. Two of them are legacy wallets. Is it safe to sell from those?
Started by just_farm · Nov 29, 2018, 07:33 AM · 17 / 23917239by ben.matrixDec 4, 2018, 07:50 PMHey everyone, not sure if I'm posting in the right spot, but here goes. Trying to get my LND up and running but I keep seeing this endless stream of…
Started by LuckyOrbit · Oct 5, 2018, 10:06 AM · 4 / 1674167by 0xChadOct 11, 2018, 03:46 AMBefore Quantum is a project that focuses on using distributed GPU computing to find Bitcoin private keys that were generated with weak randomness…
Started by ninja2011 · Sep 25, 2018, 03:07 AM · 4 / 4304430by markl4serSep 25, 2018, 09:43 PMHey everyone, My hard drive is almost full. I think I know how to move my Bitcoin database to a new drive, but how do I make Bitcoin Core start…
Started by ryanwizard · Sep 15, 2018, 06:36 PM · 2 / 2322232by ryanwizardSep 18, 2018, 09:34 AMI found some seeds in a csv file but they keep throwing invalid checksum errors. Some are wrapped in < and > signs and others have a * in front.…
Started by degen_2017 · Jul 30, 2018, 08:00 AM · 13 / 911391by ben.matrixAug 8, 2018, 02:53 PMI'm switching my notebook from Windows to Linux soon. Gonna start a Bitcoin node, but my SSD is too small for the whole blockchain. Moved my Bitcoin…
Started by nick_satoshi · Jul 12, 2018, 05:32 AM · 20 / 15820158by ben.matrixJul 17, 2018, 01:31 AM