Wallets & Security

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…

Hey everyone... I really need some help. Years ago I bought some Bitcoin and made a wallet, but I can't find it. I only got the wallet number from…

Has anyone else noticed this? I checked a few transactions and saw that average fees on Mempool.space are around 1 sat/vB, yet some people are paying…

how do i get my bitcoin core wallet.dat back on linux? i can't find a restore option in the software. help plz!

I'm trying to load a regtest wallet with bitcoinlib but I'm kinda lost on how to do it. Here's what I've got: >>> from bitcoinlib.wallets import…

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?…

I’ve got two wallets that share the same "ckey" and the first 32 characters of the "mkey" are identical too. Is there an easy way to extract the "key…

Hi all. Looking for some suggestions. Are there any better platforms for getting help with Bitcoin technical stuff? Thanks!

I have a Bitcoin wallet with a (bc1pt……) address and got a bunch of tiny payments, like 2000 Satoshis each. How do I keep the transaction fees as low…

I've been digging into the history of Bitcoin, especially how Satoshi encoded those early.dat files. I wanna focus on the patterns and schemes, like…

I messed up bad. One word in my recovery seed is wrong. I know it’s the sixth word because my Safepal S1 won't accept the one I have written down. I…

Came across this music album where it looks like the artist embedded a Bitcoin wallet right into the cover art. Is this even legal? 🤔

I just discovered Liquid and it’s been a fun ride so far. It’s super flexible for testing things out, especially those OP codes that aren’t enabled…

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…

Had a pretty wild ride with my BTC stuck due to a multi-signature wallet issue on Guarda. It's a 2-of-2 setup with my buddy, so we both need to sign…

Been noticing a lot of folks still using older Core versions lately. Like this guy on 20.x and another on 23.x. Why are they not upgrading? It’s not…

I’m trying out multisig wallets with Sparrow and using two Nano Ledgers, each with its own private key for single sig. I created a 2 of 2 multisig…

Hey everyone! This is my first time posting here. I'm curious if there's any cryptocurrency out there that totally avoids hash collisions for wallets…

Hey everyone I’ve got a transaction signed back in 2016 and now I'm facing some issues. It was done on an old wallet and I'm getting this error:…

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…

What if you need to make a transaction but wanna keep your public key hidden? What can you do if you don’t have mining hardware? I’m thinking you…

A month ago, I was checking out BIP39 seeds with Copilot and found this seed. I threw it into Electrum and saw 2 transactions in a change address:…

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…