Questions tagged [recover-private-key]
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Recovering private key when someone uses the same k twice in ECDSA signatures
In this blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20160308014317/http://www.nilsschneider.net/2013/01/28/recovering-bitcoin-private-keys.html
the author showed a case that using same k twice will leak private key.
Many people know this method. But I find…
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Cannot access my bitcoins because my wallet is still synchronising. What can I do to spend them immediately?
I have purchased bitcoins and have downloaded Bitcoin-QT, but my wallet is taking forever to synchronize to the network.
I can't access my wallet because it is still in the sync process. I have the record of me paying for the Bitcoins, the…
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19 out of 24 words of BIP39 passphrase (brute-force last 5?)
I have managed to lose 5 words of my 24 word Ledger Nano S recovery phrase. I have words 1-19 but I am missing words 20-24.
I have significant holdings on the wallet so would very much like to recover it if possible.
The passphrase is a BIP39…
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How can I find a Bitcoin private key that I saved in a text file?
I certainly saved my private key in a text file previously,
but I don't know where now.
Is there any way to recover my private key?
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Can we derive parent’s private key using child’s private key?
In the book named Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas, the author described the usage of derived child keys. One thing I noted was that he said(page 108),
The derivation function is a one-way function, the child key cannot be
used to find the parent…
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Recovering the last few digits of a Litecoin private key
Is it possible to recover the last few lost digits (10) of my Litecoin wallet private key? Are there any recovery tools available? Or will I have to try and roll my own? Crucially, what crypto function will I be working against?
I understand that a…
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Manually extracting ledger nano s wallet public / private keys using "Mnemonic Code Converter" from ledger
I have the following example seed:
morning twist board pelican denial retire middle inherit evil
ritual omit fade general toddler grace evoke recipe
sad minor destroy public dawn scissors cube
I'm trying to generate the same addresses on the…
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How to derive the private key associated with a Coinbase multi-sig vault address
When I created a multi-sig vault on Coinbase, I obtained:
A master public key in BIP32 extended format, of depth 0, parent fingerprint 00000000 and child index 0.
A private key in WIF format ("user seed"), which I don't know if it has been…
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How to recover coins from a wallet that uses BIP32 Deterministic Keys?
Say I am using an online wallet that uses BIP32 deterministic keys and the site goes down. I have a backup of my seed (passphrase). Is there a github repo that I can download, run on an offline computer, present it with my seed, present it with the…
user15026
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Recovering wallet using BIP32/wordlist/.priv file
I was using Msigna but it's having issues connecting to the localhost (Running updated bitcoinqt). I sent coins to my old account without waiting for sync (noob move) but now I'm unable to access the wallet.
Can anyone help me with migrating from…
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How can I recover the missing end of my private key?
I found this paper among my old stuff.
What can you do with it?
Is there any way to fill in the missing part?
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How to get the private keys out of old wallet.dat without syncing blockchain
I have old wallet.dat files of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Omnicore. My Bitcoin Cash wallet.dat has unbroadcasted transactions inside, so I am afraid that others might also have unbroadcasted transactions.
So, currently nodes are not running…
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How are keys for lightning channels currently created?
Keys for creating lightning channels seem to be derived differently than in usual bitcoin wallets. Lightning node data corruption, despite backup of master seed phrase, seems to prevent recovery of channel keys. How are channel keys currently…
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Why were private keys made unrecoverable?
Why were lost bitcoin private keys made unrecoverable?
Is there a way to do this and if not shouldn't a way be created since people will lose their money.
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How do wallets (like jaxx) pair with each other using the mnemonic seed phrase?
I'm a bit puzzled on how a wallet pairing process works.
I know you can restore you parent private key from a mnemonic seed phrase. This will give you a parent private key. Using this private key how does a wallet figure out the private/public keys…
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