Questions tagged [bip-32-hd-wallets]
BIP32, or Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets. HD wallets are wallets that can be shared amongst different wallet implementation with or without the ability to spend coins. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki
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Can I add inputs from different accounts coming from the same Bitcoin HDWallet?
Say I have 1000 users, each one with its own account with paths m/49'/0'/{user.id}', and I am controlling received/sent funds.
Could I collect all the funds (i.e. inputs) in a sole fat transaction ...
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Try to migrate Bitcoin Core wallet to an HD wallet but get “St13runtime” exception
I am trying to follow these steps to migrate my wallet to an HD wallet. But it failed, the debug log has errors like this:
EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
DeriveNewSeed: AddKeyPubKey failed
bitcoin in ...
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Consequences of sibling keys when xpub and xprv are leaked
Let's say the following keys are leaked:
44'/60'/4'/0 extended private key
44'/60'/4'/0 extended public key (you can just derive this from the above private key)
Now using the above information can ...
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What are the consequences from the leak of xpub and child private key?
Let's say the following keys are leaked:
Extended public key derived from path 44'/60'/4'
Leaked child private key from path 44'/60'/4'/0
Does that imply all the child private keys of the root 44'/...
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bip-schnorr and HD Key Derivation
Is it safe to use HD Key Derivation with bip-schnorr? The bip mentions that you should not throw away the first byte of a generated key.
It is important to not mix up the 32-byte bip-schnorr public ...
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Is it possible to determine the index of a bip32 address?
Let's assume that we only have the bip32 derived btc address, no private or public key. Is it possible to find out its index used for the bip32 generation?
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Best script/pseudocode to convert xpriv to xpub?
I'm looking for a script/pseudocode/utility (preferably, code in javascript/c++ or a secure, verified and open-source rpc client) that can convert a given xpriv to xpub.
Only one I've found (but not ...
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Is the “recovery phrase” generated by a wallet app platform independent?
I recently started a wallet with Coinbase Wallet, and I was asked to backup a 12 word "recovery phrase" that is supposed to be able to recover my wallet in the event that I delete the app from my ...
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How does BIP 39 mnemonic work?
As I already understood the mnemonics are the private key separated in 12 words which joined together in the very same order produces the private key.
How are mnemonics generated?
Why Ledger ...
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What heirarchical deterministic derivation path is used for FIDO authentication on a Ledger Nano S?
What heirarchical deterministic derivation path is used for FIDO authentication on a Ledger Nano S? Does it ask for a different key each time or is it always the same key?
If I connect to Google for ...
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Does Electrum reveal a wallets public key to Electrum Servers?
When Electrum Bitcoin wallet queries a random Electrum Server does it send the public key to the server or does it send a batch of addresses to check?
For instance, after setting up Electrum Personal ...
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Which BIP describes the structure and algorithm for creating a wallet file?
My app is able to create a public and private key from BIP39. The uncompressed private key is concatenated with a sha256 (private key) and then encrypted via AES and saved to a file. To decrypt, you ...
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Hardened address generation with BIP44 watch-only wallet with xpub
I am puzzled by the hardened key derivation from a watch-only BIP44 wallet.
Let me first explain what I am trying to do.
I am implementing a 2-of-3 multisig scheme
I am using Bcoin node and wallet
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How to send & receive bitcoin using bitcoinjs-lib?
First I create HD Wallet using BIP32 using mnemonics.
Now I want to generate new child addresses with private key using xpub & xpriv for every receive.
Then for example, I received BTC in 2 ...
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Bip32 bitcoin core wallet `hdseed` format from xprv master key
I'm trying to use a mnemonic seed to generate a bitcoin-core wallet. I know core does not support bip39, but it does support bip32 and sethdseed should make it possible to use the seed generated by a ...
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Creating a multisig wallet with bcoin and receiving transactions
I am trying to create a multisig wallet from two externally generated xpubs. The process I am taking is to create two multisig wallets with the two xpubs, add each others keys as shared keys and ...
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Linking Bitcoin addresses based on a private key - is that possible
I have seen a claim as follows:
[We] apply algorithms to detect which bitcoin addresses are sharing the same private keys. In most cases, this leads to a high-level assertion of certain addresses ...
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How to create generate addresses for multiple crypto currencies
I am trying to understand how to generate addresses from 1 mnemonic for multiple cryptocurrencies.
I needed a read-only wallet, so I guess I need to use an xpub key. But I am struggling to ...
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Bitcoin address generation and UTXO scanning
I'm developing bitcoin payment processing application.
I've two question to ask:
In each bip32 address, How much UTXO each address should have to consider generating new address to avoid address re-...
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How does Trezor recover all public keys from different blockchains?
I understand that the Trezor is a HD wallet, meaning private-public keys are generated through a deterministic, hierarchical expansion of the root seed. However, when I am in a process of recovering ...
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2nd 'air-gapped' computer / cold wallet setup for travel
I travel quite a bit and don't want to lug around a 2nd 'air-gapped' computer. I know that connecting a hardware wallet like a Ledger Nano S to the Ledger Live desktop app running on a computer that's ...
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What's the consensus on using a non-networked VM as a cold wallet/airgapped computer?
I'm wondering if connecting a hardware wallet like a Ledger Nano S to the Ledger Live desktop app running on a computer that's connected to the internet not considered a 'fully cold' wallet setup. How ...
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How to validate derivePath for HDWallet?
I am generating addresses for HDWallet while importing account using the
Mnemonic Phrase. So I am letting the user enter Mnemonic Phrase and derivePath both. Before generating addresses, I want to ...
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Procedure for Deriving Payment Addresses
I'm trying to understand the HD wallet payment derivation procedure, so assume:
Ownership of a Bitcoin HD Wallet on an external smart device
Exported account level extended public key (xpub....) from ...
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Does Bitcoin Core still use “Bitcoin seed” in addition to a seed like stated in BIP 32?
In BIP 32 it's stated that a Master Private key is generated by hashing the concatenation of a random seed and the string "Bitcoin seed". And is like so in the example implementations.
But I couldn't ...
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is Gap Limit only for consecutive address?
Suppose we generated 35 address, 1 to 5 are paid, 6 to 34 not paid/used and 35 paid.
Because of 20 gap limit we won't see 35 in our wallet, but what happen if we send some money to address 19 for ...
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Gap Limit, is always a problem possible to fix?
I want to accept BTC payments but I'm a bit worried about the gap limit.
I've read our wallet could miss the funds beyond the gap limit if that happen.
But I also read that we could fix that easily ...
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Restoring an HD wallet tree [duplicate]
I saw this question:
How does restoring an HD wallet work?
I think the answer fits to a chain wallet (Seed) and the process is different while it's on a tree.
I still don't understand how the ...
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Understanding default bitcoin wallet in bitcoind
I am new to block-chain, so please bear with my questions. I need to understand the basics of a bitcoin-wallet.
So I have setup a bitcoin full node using bitcoind in running in testnet mode. As I ...
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Calculating the HD Wallet Balance [duplicate]
While the notion of a balance is not strictly correct in the context of a wallet, it is something that has presented some confusion for me in the context of an HD wallet, especially when importing a ...
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Hardened Keys vs Normal Keys - A Simpler Explanation
I'm trying to better understand hardened keys and normal keys and how the former protects the rest of and HD wallet.
Following on from the answer provided here: ELI5: What's the difference ...
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HSM for Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet
I'd like to use a small HSM to manage an HD Bitcoin wallet (BIP32). The HSM does have to correct ECDSA curve, secp256k1, can generate keypair, and sign.
My challenge comes from the HD part. In ...
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What's the magic key version bytes for BIP49
I'm implementing BIP49-compatible key derivation for bitcoin-s, but I'm having a hard time finding the magic version bytes to use for the extended keys.
I've been looking at BIP49, but can't find ...
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Why seed from BIP39 mnemonic phrase is much longer than entropy?
BIP39 converts mnemonic
"zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo wrong"
to the fairly long seed
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Export Xpubkey from Bitcoin Core
How do I export my HD wallet's Xpubkey in Bitcoin Core?
Do I construct it using the value of "hdseedid" returned by getwalletinfo?
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Which derivation paths are used by the Abra wallet?
Abra have stated in a reddit comment that their non-custodial HD wallet uses custom derivation paths to convert the user's BIP39 mnemonic seed into cryptocurrency address/key pairs. Has anyone figured ...
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how to find my btc address and private key using bip32 rootkey
I have one query
Using my bip32 rootkey
I can see all address
I've 250$ into my wallet but when i important the address from my rootkey it's showing only address which i received payment of last 150$...
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Expected property “0” of type ECPair, got p
When I'm trying to create a wallet in react app using the following code:
const seed = bip39.mnemonicToSeed(mnemonic);
const master = bitcoin.HDNode.fromSeedBuffer(seed, "testnet");
I got error: ...
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Bitcoin Core 0.17 sethdseed then dumpwallet how to recompute extended private masterkey?
Using bitcoin-cli -datadir=X sethdseed true "WIF_KEY" the current wallet within datadir is updated
Then, using bitcoin-cli -datadir=X dumpwallet my_dump.txt shows a fresh new # extended private ...
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What does the prefix of the raw transaction encoding of an exported Electrum transaction file (.txn) mean?
I have exported a testnet transaction into a .txn file:
{
"hex": "45505446ff0002000000000101c6be24d86ab1ae5b54e7e7905b...",
"complete": false,
"final": false
}
However, as explained in ...
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Bitcoin Core change derivation path with getnewaddress cmd 0.17
As I'm building a simple HD wallet, I would like to use bitcoin core regtest. My goal is to setup a testing flow where I could have constant seeded address each time I use bitcoin-testnet-box, so that ...
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funds in hd wallet
I have a doubt on HD wallets, I have generated a sequence of address.
how to check the balance of each address or how we can look for balance.
Did the amount move to the base address as like monero ...
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Why do LedgerJS and Electrum, using the same Nano S and derivation path, not refer to the same Wallet?
I start Electrum in my cmdline like this:
./Electrum --testnet
I connect Ledger Nano S to my laptop.
In Electrum I make a new HD Wallet with Derivation path using the Nano S's private key as seed:
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HD wallets and multisig
Is there any standardized way to define HD wallet accounts used to participate in multi-signature transactions? How do existing multisig wallets derive their keys from the seed it? How is Bitcoin Core ...
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Private Key in HD Account Bither Watch Only
I have a watch only HD account in Bither and I've got a password of the wallet but I don't have a private Key. I need to send BTC received in that account to another address in another account
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How to create Bitcoin HD waller in node.js?
I know that there were similar questions to mine before but most of them was verry old and I couldn't find any helpful answer. So I want to make deposit system on my website where every user will have ...
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Should Electrum users give out their master public key?
I have seen a recent service advertising that users can turn their Electrum Wallets in to a "Cold Wallet" by providing the 3rd party service the Master Public Key from the Electrum wallet.
Ignoring ...
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Is it possible to run HD derivation with an encrypted master node or seed?
Given either a seed or the private part of a master node, that is encrypted using AES-256-CBC (or another secured symmetrical cypher) with key K, is it possible to run derivation such as described in ...
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undefined is not an object error when adding BIP39 to React Native
I have a React Native Project and it was worked correctly till I added bip39 package to the project. when i try to require bip39 in my component i get the below error.
undefined is not an object (...
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Get Master Private Key from BIP39 Seed
I have BIP39 Seed:
5b56c417303faa3fcba7e57400e120a0ca83ec5a4fc9ffba757fbe63fbd77a89a1a3be4c67196f57c39a88b76373733891bfaba16ed27a813ceed498804c0570
I want to get Master private Key
Then I Have to ...
