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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Can I recreate the xpub key if I have multiple public addresses with their corresponding private keys?
Is it possible to recreate the xpub key if I have multiple public addresses with their corresponding private keys? All the keys were created from the same HD wallet.
I was hodling and watching my ...
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What makes an extended public or private key?
I was under the impression that an extended public key was comprised of the public key + chain code, and I'm unfamiliar with what comprises the extended private key.
However this does not seem to be ...
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Looking for JS/Node.js code example to sign a transaction (with multiple UTXOs) with only the extended private key
Is there any Javascript code out there or examples on how to sign a transaction by using the extended-private-key?
What I am essentially looking for is code that will help derive the private key, ...
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If anyone with your seed phrase can generate your wallet private keys, what is the advantage of a hardware wallet?
When you start using a cryptocurrency hardware wallet, you get to write down a seed phrase in some physical medium (paper, metal, etc.) so you can regain access to your funds if you lose the hardware ...
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Is auditing a BIP32 tree only possible if it is non-hardened?
BIP 32 allows you to to implement the auditor use case:
Audits: N(m/*) In case an auditor needs full access to the list of
incoming and outgoing payments, one can share all account public
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How can all possible numbers in 256-bit space be squeezed into 160-bit space?
Bitcoin addresses are essentially 160-bit hashes of a 256-bit public key. Huh? How can all possible numbers in 256-bit space be squeezed into 160-bit space? Does that mean any given bitcoin address ...
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Number of Trials Required For Brute Force Attack To Have x% Of Success?
I'm making an informational video about how unlikely it is for an attacker to successfully brute force a specific bitcoin address. Obviously, it will deal with impossibly huge numbers ("not in earth's ...
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Sweeping a bitcoin private key using PHP
Is there a PHP script where it validates a bitcoin private key and also gets the public address from the key?
My goal was to:
verify the private key
Get the public address using that private key
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i lost access to my bitcoin [closed]
I did not have any idea about bitcoin but I wanted to get in, I met this guy who knew about it on facebook asked him if he could help. he sent me the link on blockchain to signup showed me how to buy ...
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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, ...
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Digital Signature and private/public key
I am new to Bitcoin and Blockchain and I am writing a thesis for my university about this topic.
I have a general question about digital signatures, which are needed to verify a transaction.
As ...
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How much computing power is required to bruteforce a Litecoin private key in reasonable time?
Say I want to break a Litecoin private key having the public key using brute force. How much computing power is required for that? Does any hardware exist which can find a matching private key in, say,...
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What is the significance of the version byte in front of RIPEMD-160 hash?
Public Address is generated from the private key following some steps. Please refer Bitcoin wiki to see the process.
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python-bitcoinlib | Create Private Keys, Public Keys and Addresses - How to Do It?
I'm trying to use the python-bitcoinlib library but its docs aren't entirely clear to me.
I'm a programmer but quite new to Python, and not very versed in the Bitcoin protocol.
What's the process, ...
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How to hack a Password of Private Key
I have a Private key and then after I entered it, there's another saying
"Input a required Password of Private Key"
So how can I hack or generate that?
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ELT Wallet is lost how do I get it back
I accidentally hit the create new wallet button when I was half asleep and when it said enter pin I entered the one for my original wallet. Now I cannot get to the original wallet and I cannot find my ...
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I want to find my private key using my extended private key
How can I find my private key to all my imported address that hold funds? Please help me. Thank you.
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How are P and ((z1*s2 - z2*s1)/(r*(s1-s2))) calculated?
Given:
p = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141
r = 0xd47ce4c025c35ec440bc81d99834a624875161a26bf56ef7fdc0f5d52f843ad1
s1 = ...
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How do you know your public key from a private key?
In my understanding, when you create a public-private key pair, first, you create a pair of complementary keys by using cryptographic software. Then you give one key the name public key, and give the ...
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How does my hardware wallet know what my “account” balance is?
There must be a request to wallet provider's server with full node where they will check it. But what is sent?
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Can the Large Bitcoin Collider project 'break' into offline hardware wallets like the Nano Ledger S?
Let's say the Large Bitcoin Collider manages to guess the private key of a particular Nano Ledger S. Can they then 'spend' or 'steal' the Bitcoins on the Nano or 'send' them to another wallet?
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Public key cryptography question - Is Private or Public key used to sign? Confusion between which key is used to sign and which is used to encrypt
I am relatively new to cryptography and blockchain and am learning about how public key cryptography works, and its application in Bitcoin's environment.
I read two different articles , the 1st which ...
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Private key to mnemonic words, is it safe?
Is it safe to do the following?
Suppose I do not want the HD wallet, but I do want the convenience of using mnemonic words to remember the private key. I know I can convert the private key's hex ...
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What does 44' mean in BIP44?
After reading BIP44, I saw
Purpose is a constant set to 44' (or 0x8000002C) following the BIP43
recommendation.
I believe 0x8000002C is 128 as an integer, how does this equate to 44' however?
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What is the difference between the mnemonic and the private key?
My thinking so far:
If I have a private number, then I can use that as the private key.
If I have a mnemonic, I can match up each word to a number in the wordlist to get the seed, which is the ...
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How do HD wallets use mnemonic to recover all private keys?
As I understand, a wallet like BRD wallet can have many private keys and receiving addresses.
When I give them the mnemonic, how do they re-generate all of the relevant private keys from that ...
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How to find bitcoin address from bitcoin privatekey
How to find bitcoin address from bitcoin privatekey using bitcoind json rpc or any other way?
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When develop a mobile cryptocurrency wallet, is there any good practice to store private key?
As i know, some wallet like electrum store private keys in client filesystem with encrypted and other web wallet like ether metamask store it on browser storage. And in the mobile wallet, is there any ...
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Basic Concept of Bitcoin (public and private) Keys
Can anyone please tell me the difference in the following Bitcoin terms?
Difference between xpriv and xpub
Difference between xpub and tpub.
Difference between ypub and upub.
Difference between ...
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On what kind of random number generator does each wallet create the secret key based?
Bitcoin core, OpenLedger, METAMASK, or other famous wallets(the type of wallets does not matter) create private keys by using random number generator, and I would like to know they use what kind of ...
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I have watched addresses in my wallet..how do i use them?
How do I use the watch only addresses that are in my wallet? I can't find the private keys. Is their any way to use them or should I just delete the wallet with the watch addresses in them?
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How to find my private key! Please help!
Trying to send some BTC payments and don’t know my private key. Can anyone help me and tell me it or tell me how to get it.
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How are Ledger Nano S private keys protected?
I've read quite some material but it boils down that there "is a chip" on Ledger Nano S and the private key never leaves it. But what I would like to know is the following.
Is it encrypted? If so, ...
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how to get the whole balance of a privatekey or publickey BTC
As there are some bitcoin address types of one privatekey or publickey. I can get the balance of one address, but how can I get the whole balance of the privatekey or publickey. How can list all the ...
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Unlocking a Private Key from watch status
I received Some mining profits to my Blockchain. However the person who sent them to me send them to me with a private key. They then wanted me to send them money to unlock the private key. Does ...
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Is the Mycelium HD wallet private key stored encrypted on the device?
haven't found details on that in the net.
My concern is that I'm using a corporate (bring you own device) phone. We have to install a "security" app running with administrator rights.
IMHO this app ...
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SECP256K1 Minimum Value for Private Key
I've been looking into Elliptic Curve Cryptography, in particular the SECP256K1 spec which is used in Bitcoin and Ethereum. So I understand that the Generator point G is fixed based on the spec and ...
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Regarding Private Key
Good day. Can you help me out regarding my question.
The company (legal entity) at the moment want to confirm the fact, tha certain BTC core wallet actually belongs to her. Though, i would like to ...
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I need to import a private key - what is the entire process? [Electrum]
I need to import a private key like in this question for a p2wpkh-p2sh address. What is the entire process?
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Importing private keys creates different address
How does importing private keys work?
I have previously imported the private key for a 1Archive... address into Bitcoin Core and noted then it added an address like 1AXbRq... and I didn't follow it ...
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How to sweep a segwit bech32 private key?
I'm testing segwit bech32 addresses and generated the following using bitcoinjs:
address: bc1qc7u5njf4nf2rj3zys642mfc7nct6kdven8j4e9
private key: 5Kkzs8XrJNAmf9VQDFeGBfaRvSByAvPK6DbDXw5BVqswWaXSG2Y
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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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Recovering the private key from a blockchain wallet address
One of my friends used my wallet to import a funded blockchain wallet to my wallet id. First this wallet is watch-only and I can't spend the bitcoins inside this wallet because I need the private key. ...
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Private key recovery?
I've seen many peoples are actually recovering their private keys using signatures pub key r s z values etc , anyway , I've found a way to recover it but using transaction hex i can't found the ...
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Where do I obtain private keys?
Just received my profits from a "watch only" address, where do I obtain private keys?
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Can someone please find the private key to this bitcoin address?
I need help this is URGENT! find the private key and send it to me.
3PbacVZwS2L5i9C2Cmz9rPu8s4qjyYkufk
I really need this to pay for a bill. I have a deadline and have been trying to figure it out ...
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Converting from Private Key to WIF, what am i missing?
They say a image speaks louder then 1000 words so:
As you can see from the image above, this should work ?
What am i missing here?
This is my encode function,
http://cryptocoinjs.com/modules/...
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I need details explaination about “ BLOCKCHAIN BITCOIN ADDER BOT”
I saw this file titled "
BLOCKCHAIN BITCOIN ADDER" on facebook and i tried to follow the process by importing the wallet that was given. On doing that I received a lots of bitcoin that i never dream i ...
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Wants to send my bitcoin to another wallet
I’m having issues trying to send my bitcoin to another wallet...it been asking me to confirm a whr code which I don’t really understand cos I have enough money on my wallet
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33 byte private key?
I have read that private key is 256 bits or 32 byte. see here
I generated a key on bitcoin-test network.
WIF:
cVe4tA6QHduboeSiQD6Y6nzV1QjaVpDVG2YHbqbtJiSCxsNDYYUF
HEX:
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