Questions tagged [private-key]
This tag should be used for questions pertaining to private keys. Private keys are used for signing transactions and allow the holder of the private key to spend the Bitcoin associated with the address derived from the private key.
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Find one private key from a large list of compressed public keys secp256k1
I am willing to cooperate with you. Help me find one private key from a large list of compressed public keys secp256k1. In the list of 15 000 000 compressed public keys. For the method of searching ...
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Question about nondeterministic wallet
I was reading https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch05.asciidoc#user-stories and ran into this statement.
In the first bitcoin wallet (now called Bitcoin Core), wallets were
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Can someone explain what exactly is derived address?
Let's say my mnemonic words are
army van defense carry jealous true garbage claim echo media make
crunch
When I used https://iancoleman.io/bip39/#english, the section, Derived Address, showed ...
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What can I do with Account Extended Private Key and Account Extended Public Key?
I have been reading about Account Extended Private Key and Account Extended Public Key that derives from the Master Private Key and Master Public Key, but I still have some question about their ...
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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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Can Large Bitcoin Collider break into the wallet which is created by new version of Electrum?
I have heard that Large Bitcoin Collider can only break into wallets that are created by broken software.
My other question is that it seems the last private key that they found was on 2017-11-15 01:...
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How to get my c-lightning node's private key?
lightning-cli getinfo outputs my node's id, which is its public key. How can I get its underlying private key?
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Private key generation doubt
I read that the private key pk has to be any number between 1 and n, where n is almost 10^77.
Since pk' s function is practically to be used as a scalar for multiplying the generator point G, why does ...
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How can my private key be revealed if I use the same nonce while generating the signature?
I know it is well understood that it is not a good practice to use the same nonce while generating the signatures, but I am not getting the math right.
Assume I have some UTXOs that are controlled ...
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If transactions are changed in memory how miners know it?
If Alice requests something to bob, then Alice sends her public key and Bob encrypts message by using Alice's key.
Bob uses his private key and hash function to make a signature.
After finishing this ...
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Theory: brute-force key search
Let’s say I want to generate many private keys so I can generate one private key (and thus a public key) identical to the richest bitcoin address.
But I can’t do that because my computer power is not ...
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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 find one private key from the list of 15 million public keys for the sake of experimentation?
Recently found a list of compressed public keys. The total number of 15 000 000 public keys.
Practical for all compressed public keys Balance: 0.000100 BTC
I do not set malicious goals. All just for ...
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Is there a way to get a character string beginning with xprv with confirmation 2, sample account B
I am trying to access the wallet information using the following blockchain.info API.
https://github.com/blockchain/api-v1-client-node/tree/master/MyWallet
However, there is a difference for each ...
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Why is there a finite amount of bitcoin addresses and how is the range of possible addresses determined
My first question is what the precise logical/theoretical reason is that there are only a fixed amount of possible bitcoin addresses. Secondly, I can generate a bitcoin address by using address(sha256(...
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Extending a parent public key to create a child public key
I want to create public key from parent e public key like this:
In this picture I can see left 256 bits and it's become 264 after "sum" with parent public key.
But 256 bits what is it?
When ...
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Using only Javascript and JS related Bitcoin Libraries. How do you extract the Bitcoin Address from a private key?
I'm building an js related application that only stores my user's bitcoin private keys, but not the public key or bitcoin address to save space.
Is there a javascript library that can output the ...
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Import / create a Wallet from a key with bitcoind or bitcoin-cli to use as a hotwallet?
i've created a HD Wallet via (https://github.com/GemHQ/money-tree)
i would like to take the private key and throw that into my daemon so i can listen on incoming transactions and also transfer the ...
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How to specify PrivateKey search range in HEX?
I am trying to generate random bitcoin Private_Keys in HEX format (32bit) but
I want the randomness to have a value within a specific HEX range, say between
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Can I recover my own wallet from the public key? [duplicate]
I made a wallet years back. It has a good amount of Bitcoin then I wiped and sold my laptop. Now somehow I found my wallet address public key. Is it possible to get the private key somehow?
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C-lightning Implementation password protect hsm while maintaing node access
I was wondering if there was a way to encrypt the folder that contains the hsm_secret (and a lot of other operational files necessary for constant operation of a C-lightning node) without cutting it ...
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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 ...
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How to Send BTC from vmnode address to local address using privatekey in testnet?
I created two bitcoin address in VM nod as well as local and dump privatekey for both addresses by using "dumpprivkey" command. Is there any posibitity to send BTC from bitcoin address which is ...
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Fastest way to generate millions of public keys from private keys (Python/C#)
I have run into a problem when trying to generate public keys from my mnemonics via privatekeys. The mnemonic -> privkey is fairly fast. Although when deriving the m/44./0./0./0/0 public adress it ...
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Can you recover seed words with passphrase on bitcoin node?
I have a btc node (Bitcoin Core version v0.17.0.1 (64-bit))running on my Windows 10 computer, as part of regular backup I have realized I don't have the seed words but I do have the passphrase. It has ...
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Converting WIF as Base58 string to byte array in bash
I want to convert wif as Base58 string to byte array.
Private key to WIF
printf 800C28FCA386C7A227600B2FE50B7CAE11EC86D3BF1FBE471BE89827E19D72AA1D507A5B8D | xxd -r -p | base58
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checksum in address
I want to create a address bitcoin.
I have a payload with version like this:
0050d512c984b1656ef47c145c8fd5d5262d3904b1
where 00 in my version prefix, and 50d512c984b1656ef47c145c8fd5d5262d3904b1 ...
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How does `bitcoind` generate the private key?
My question is how the bitcoin core client generates a (master) private key(s)?
I know from other wallets, that they take the mnemonic and generate a HD wallet master key. With the master key, the ...
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address in listaddressgroupings and getnewaddress
I don't understand the differents between listaddressgroupings and getnewaddress
For example, I have a local blockchain ( regtest ) with 0 Block.
I create 101 block (generate 101)
I can see with ...
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Is the unencrypted copy of the wallet still usable after a copy is encrypted?
My wallet is not protected with a password, I have a few receiving addresses generated and a some funds in it, then I make a copy of the wallet and I set a password on this one.
Will the old ...
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How do you sign data with a private key? [javascript]
Using BlockCypher’s signing tool (link), I can sign the following data:
05de69f5d37f41340eed3230f03d2394dde5e497738a76f027b7d962a0cbdf39
with the private key:
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Deriving hex private key from a HD wallet
I have the following test Mnemonic:
stable primary already collect buffalo bike into robust fury cement proof agree neither blouse course
From this I can generate a BIP39 Wallet:
https://iancoleman....
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How do you sign transactions from a HD wallet? [duplicate]
I'm using the following tool to generate a HD wallet:
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
However, it gives quite a few different private keys and I'm not sure which one is used to sign transactions with.
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How public key is calculated from a base58 encoded private key?
I followed this post and created a private key for bitcoin wallet. The post says after finding the random 256 bit(32 bytes) integer the version number should be prepended and the checksum should be ...
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Ownership of private keys in the Lightning Network
My question refers to the technical side:
who is holding the private keys if a third party is using my lightning node to participate in the Lightning Network payment channel ?
Thank you
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I accidentally transferred my Bitcoin Cash to Bitcoin (BTC) wallet in BitMEX! [closed]
A few days ago, I bought Bitcoin Cash and transferred it to my BitMEX Bitcoin BTC Wallet by accident! This is money that I can't afford to lose! What do you suggest I do?
My conversations with BitMEX:...
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Bitpay xPrivKey to private key
Network: BCH testnet
Client: bitcoin-abc-0.18/bin/bitcoind and bitcoin-cli
I want to convert xPrivKey which is from exported Bitpay wallet file to private key for using bitcoin-cli importprivkey
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how to dump private key from multisig address
how to dump private key from multisig address ?
I tried with dumpprivkey RPC function but return error : Address does not refer to a key
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Private key only wallet for Bitcoin Core regtest
I'm running a private regtest network on GCP. I generated a list of 2000 vanity testnet addresses ordered sequentially from prefixes mooo1 to n2ooo with their respective pub/priv key pairs, and to ...
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Using Python: create a private key of my choosing, then generate public key and address
I'm looking for a simple, easy to use Bitcoin library for Python.
What I want to do is verify I can enter a hex private key that I want, and get the expected pubkey in compressed format, and the 1Btc....
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generating private key from bip39 seed
according to bip39, I maked 12 mnemonic words and then get a 512 bit seed from them.
now I want to know how must I convert this seed to private key ?
what functions must I use ?
please introduce me ...
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Is there any way to recover a bitcoin private key using some parts of the key ?
I have a bitcoin wallets private key , but it's incomplete like you can say it's 70% of the private key , there is some alphanumeric missing for the middle of the key , is there anyway to recover it ...
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Who approves my public key in Bitcoin network?
In a PKI approach a public key is approved by a Certificate Authority (CA) with a centralized manner. However, since Bitcoin network is a decentralized network, how my public key validity is approved? ...
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My ripple masterkey is disabled
I have XRP secret key and regular key. but masterkey is disabled.
How do i enable masterkey again to move my funds?
Thanks
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How would one “Encrypt” a message using a Bitcoin *public key* and use its private key to decrypt it?
I have the following text string:
This is a test message.
Using my bitcoin public key (bitcoin address?), how can I encrypt this message?
How would I decrypt the message using a bitcoin private key?
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How to create ECPoint from raw private key
How to create a bouncy castle ECPoint from a raw private key hex string? I am getting a private key using the 'dumpprivkey' RPC and removing the header byte and the 4 bytes of checksum + 1 byte of ...
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Off Line wallets
I am using Armory .96.4 with bitcoin core of .16.3
I have three wallets which two are encrypted ant the other is watching only. The watching has several bit coins and when I try to do a transaction ...
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Why can a wallet not compute the private-key from a public-key?
my goal of questions this is why any wallet not able to compute private key created with public key generate?
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Can i use one pair public and private key for all transactions?
Can I use one pair public and private key for all transactions, digital signatures and wallet addresses?
In the other hand, I have a private key and want to sign all transactions and have a public key ...
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What can you do with the private key?
I am trying to understand all security regarding blockchain and bitcoins.
Let's say you have a bitcoin wallet which is secured, only you know the private key. This bitcoin address was created on one ...
