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How can you extract private keys from MultiBit HD?
WARNING: While this answer may be a solution to the issue in the question, it involves exposing your wallet seed to a tool on the internet. Please be very careful when doing this!
Can't add comments ...
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Export wallet from Multibit to Electrum
In the current version 2.8.3 of Electrum it's very easy to import Multibit wallets (meaning, migrating from Multibit to Electrum). An important reason to migrate is because Multibit (not HD but the ...
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How can you extract private keys from MultiBit HD?
In case you have a beta7 wallet which is not BIP32 compliant you cannot use the method @chris-j has put forward.
The easiest way for me was to hook into MultiBit HD's signing capabilities and log the ...
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MultiBit Classic wallet gone
Yes your wallet file will be sufficient to recover your Bitcoin if you did not encrypt it with a password.
In the future please encrypt your wallet and store backups offline
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How do I restore my Multibit wallet without seed words?
In 2013, MultiBit was not using Hierachal Deterministic (HD) wallets. The latest version is MultiBit HD. If you want to use the older version you can use MultiBit Classic and that should let you ...
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Bitcoin Cash Multibit HD/Electrum
Here is what you need to do. Make sure you have the seed from multibit.
Download http://www.electroncash.org/
You create a new wallet, select I already have seed, when you type seed you need to ...
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Wallet balance showing as unconfirmed - SOLVED!
My problem was easily solved, I simply had to Repair Wallet - an option in the Manage Wallet sidebar choice. All fixed!
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MULTIBIT: How to restore wallet with following information?
The MultiBit HD wallet can be restored with just the seed words. Click "Restore" on the unlock screen and follow the instructions.
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Problems in recovering from a seed of Multibit HD
The default MultiBit HD wallet uses an address generation scheme known as BIP32. Mycelium uses an address generation scheme known as BIP44.
BIP44 is what Trezor uses.
HD wallet interoperability is ...
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Upgrading from classic to hd
MultiBit developer here. You should be able to simply spend from your Classic wallet into your new HD wallet. Don't try moving private keys around - that's really easy to get wrong and is one of the ...
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Transactions seen by peers, but not confirming
Okay, some observations:
MultiBit Classic 5.16 is more than two years old.
The transaction you mentioned doesn't appear on either blockexplorer.com, blocktrail.com or blockchain.info. It seems that ...
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How can you extract private keys from MultiBit HD?
WARNING: While this answer may be a solution to the issue in the question, it involves exposing your wallet seed to a tool on the internet. Please be very careful when doing this, since
...just DON'...
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Can I recover my seed words?
Multibit 0.5.14 is a MultiBit classic version which does not have seed words and does not support Hierarchical Deterministic wallets. So long as you know the password to your wallet and you have an up ...
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MultiBit with multiple addresses to Electrum
go to Tools-> Export Private Keys
After you find the .key file, open it in a text editor. The key file should start with the line: “KEEP YOUR PRIVATE KEYS SAFE !”
The keys start at the last # line
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Question about Multibit Core wallet - not sync
I'm afraid that this looks like another instance of the "BitlyCore malware" that was previously making the rounds, see e.g. Help about BitlyCore.
The client's name appears to be a mash-up of ...
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How do I set the transaction fee in Multibit?
I recently tried to modify the wallet but the maven build did not work because many of the google code repositories are now offline. What eventually worked for me was the following.
Extracted the ...
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How do I set the transaction fee in Multibit?
As of Multibit Classic 0.5.19 (last in the series) you can now do this. However, the max transaction fee ratio is too low for today's market and miners! If you want to spend out of this client, even ...
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Export wallet from Multibit to Electrum
Checkout read-multibit-wallet-file, a standalone utilitiy written in Node. Useful in case multibit UI won't let you export it (it waits for the entire blockchain to download which can get stuck)
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How transaction fees differ between different wallets?
Bitcoin-Core is a full node and can therefore build up a mempool and estimate fees. This is probably the most secure way how one can estimate fees. You can verify the source code and make your own ...
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How can I recover my MultiBit HD wallet words?
If you have both your wallet file (named mbhd.wallet.aes for MultiBit HD) and its password, you can use this tool to extract its mnemonic sentence/seed.
Note that the terms "brute force" and "crack" ...
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Sending bitcoin unconfirmed, now wallet balance is unconfirmed
The other guy is wrong, I have the same problem as you( http://prntscr.com/cv38x1 - the coins were confirmed in 2015 but it shows transaction status as unknown).
Your issue is most likely the one ...
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Multibit HD wallet - cannot open or restore, I have password and secret words
MultiBit HD bugs
There are several issues:
A correct password doesn't unlock the wallet (#753 on github).
The restore process doesn't work if there's already a wallet in the directory that MHD uses ...
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Can I change wallet without shifting funds
Yes you can, depending on what version of multibit you have, you can do the following :
Multibit HD: You should have the backup seed words. You can directly use those seed words / master public key ...
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Multibit HD 0.5.1 with Unconfirmed transactions for months now
I got help from BTC Portugal (Portuguese slack channel, thank you @riclas, @shutaru and @malmen) and was able to solve this issue.
This is what I did (ETA: 10 minutes):
Close all running Multibit HD ...
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Is there another wallet that can restore from MultiBit's seed words?
As far as I know, no wallet uses the same derivation path as Multibit HD so a Multibit HD wallet cannot be restored to another wallet. However, using a site like https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/, ...
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Can a bitcoin cold wallet become incompatible
Background
In order to answer the question let's first identify the key components inside a Bitcoin wallet:
Bitcoin public keys are derived by applying Elliptic Curve maths to a large random number (...
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Unable to transfer bitcoin from Multibit - need Satoshi
You will need to include a transaction fee as well, so you can't send the entire balance in your wallet. Decrease the amount you are trying to send by the amount it suggests and try again.
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I have unspent bitcoin in the blockchain
In short, bitcoin transactions are made up of inputs and outputs. When you sent funds, an input was spent, and the output went to the receiving bitcoin wallet. The unspent tag simply means that the ...
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Moving funds from MultiBit 0.5.18 into new Software (Electrum)
You can use it. Electrum, nowadays, is as popular as Multibit used to be, so you can assume that you will always be able to recover your coins.
To be safer, you can export the private keys from ...
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Recovering an old Multibit wallet file (76 characters long)
Does anyone know the correct method of decrypting this?
It doesn't seem to be encrypted. The comments at the start of the file don't mention any form of encryption. It only mentions a common form of ...
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