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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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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Recovering a Bitcoin Key Made From Rolling Dice
So a few years ago I created a private key by rolling dice. Following the instructions from bitaddress.org, I rolled a dice 99 times and entered the string into the bitaddress.org. Rather than ...
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Conditions for recovering a p2pkh bitcoin private key
Apart from Re-using same R value, What are the necessarily ecdsa values needed or method to recover the private key of a p2pkh address.
When same address is reused numerous times to receive bitcoin ...
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how private key is stored? [closed]
How is the private key or master seed managed on iOS or Android?
In copay, using Secure Enclave? And as for Android device how is the private key or master seed managed?
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Where is the AES-256 key/ IV pair stored in wallet.dat file?
I have created an encrypted bitcoin file. I know the password and I see the mkey in the hex dump. I would like to know where the AES key / IV pair are located in the wallet.dat file?
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Javascript library or code that can convert an “uncompressed” bitcoin private key to a compressed one
I forked a pretty old brain wallet generator: https://dvdbng.github.io/memwallet/ -- Currently it generates uncompressed bitcoin private keys. Is there a javascript library that can convert an ...
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Mycelium not reading segwit bech32 (bc1) addresses from a private key
I'm trying to import my bitcoin private key into the Mycelium android wallet, but it keeps showing up as the legacy address that starts with 1xxx. I sent some coins to the bc1 address and I verified ...
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Importing private key to bitcoin node is slow. Can it be faster?
I have launched the bitcoin node and synchronized it. The issue is that importing the private key forces the node to scan the blockchain for the operations with the key. Is there a way to import the ...
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Exporting private key from expired bitcoin address (now showing as watch-only)
Is there a way, in theory, to export private key from the bitcoin address (watch-only) that is now expired, but used once before? (even to get a different format of that key, numeric one instead of QR ...
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How can I technically find my private key for bitcoin wallet address (Blockchain) that has been used before?
So I really made a mistake by importing address without knowing I will be asked for a private key later since that address is watch-only. Seems like this address has already been used before on my ...
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What is the need for multiple private keys?
From what I understand, there is initially a seed from which the private keys are derieved and from that the public key respective to each private key is derived.
The public key is essentially the ...
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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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Blockchain Private Key
I have been paying amounts of bitcoin, with the promise from Howard Jones in Texas that I will get my private key to get the bitcoin, but when it was time to give me the key, communication went quiet, ...
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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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Two transactions are signed by different private keys, and the value of “R” for these two transactions is the same?
Everyone knows an error in the Blockchain when the same value of "R" can be calculated and find out the private key of the transaction:
ECDSA Signature and the "z" value
But I have a ...
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Can someone help me find the private key for my bitcoin wallet? [duplicate]
I have a Bitcoin Wallet on Blockchain and i have a imported wallet there where my bitcoin is stuck please help.
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How to recover private key from 12-word passphrase?
I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who knows how to retrieve your private key using your 12-word passphrase? Your advice is much appreciated
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Bitcoin ATM paid out to a phone number, how can the funds be retrieved?
A friend was trying to send me bitcoin using a Bitcoin ATM, she sent the funds to "her phone number" instead of my wallet QR code. The ATM indicated that Bitcoin was sent, but my friend doesn't even ...
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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 signature/private-key required to accept payment over Lightning Network?
To (1) create an invoice and (2) accept payment in LN, the node has to be online. But does the node need to sign the creating invoice or the accepting payment?
We don't have to have private key ...
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How to re-secure a multisignature wallet if private key is stolen
Here are two attack scenarios on bitcoin private keys:
1) Assume that, BitCorp has just noticed that a Mallory has just compromised one of their servers holding their Bitcoin Private keys. Luckily,...
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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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Trying to understand extended keys
I'm slowly getting educated about how the blockchain and Bitcoin addresses work. I now understand why it is more secure to use a different Bitcoin address for every transaction you make but I'm now ...
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Can't import BIP32 key into electrum
I always struggle here and tried both ways plenty of time
i use the rubygem "moneytree" and electrum 3.3
@master = MoneyTree::Master.new
@master.to_bip32(:private)
this will give me ...
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Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) Importing Funds
I'm creating derived addresses from a HD private key.
I have all data saved, such as the; seed, HD private key and derived addresses with their private keys, plus wif formats.
I'm receiving funds in ...
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Importing the keys Issue
I imported the private keys into my wallet and they appear to be added:
This is the result when i run getImportedKeys():
[ECKey{pub HEX=...
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Bitcoin core wallet's security
When running a bitcoin node on an enterprise level: a lot of addresses will be generated with getaddress RPC for users to send their funds to. As far as I understand, these addresses, as well as the ...
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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 ...
