I only ask this because one time I was tripping I shuffled a deck of cards and started guessing cards....I got the first 7 correct. The odds of that happening are 1 in 674,274,182,400. I literally had a better chance of winning powerball than guessing the first 7 cards in a shuffled deck correctly.
My luck is misplaced.
I’d like to get a sense of how many keys/addresses are currently in use, if it is easily retrievable.
I know there is a lot of people that are not very careful about how they are storing their private keys and that makes me really anxious. Recently there was a guy here on Reddit who said he has his keys written in the memo app on his phone. That made me shiver.
What do you guys and girls use to keep your private keys safe?
I personally found that metal plates work the best for me. I bought a cheap steel plate at the home depot for about 2$ (it's enough to make 6 or 7 wallets out of it) and the cheapest dremel tool that I could find online for about 10$. It took me a bit trial and error but I managed to make some really good looking metal plate wallets. It took me about an hour to do that and it's way cheaper than those overpriced retail ones.
When setting up connections to Github / remote Linux machines, I often find myself struggling through getting private and public key SSH set-up. I can always find a tutorial and blindly follow directions, but I feel like I have no grasp as to what I'm doing.
Additionally, it seems like the only tutorials out there on the web / Youtube are 15 minutes videos that are too low-level. I am not interested in the commands to generate RSA keys, or how to copy them to my clipboard, etc, etc. I want to know the high-level overview as to what is happening.
Is anyone aware of a good tutorial that focuses on high-level concepts for practioners?
Delete a suspicious token/s on your wallet. Or you toggle it off in the list so that it won't appear anymore. Always be familiarized with your portfolio.
I tend overshare about my myself, and then regret doing so. Please recommend me books(self help).
While walking the dog today we found two wooden tags with characters and symbols along with the text: £17,000
Could be absolutely nothing but on the off chance someone set up a puzzle with a prize we figured it’s worth a go.
Tags were next to each other at the base of a tree.
Tag 1, side 1 - 48 Characters (numbers and letters), all uppercase and over five columns.
Tag 1, side 2 - weird symbol. Almost looks like a diamond with a cross through it inside a broken box.
Tag 2, side 1 - £17,000.00
Tag 2, side 2 - strange pattern of 1s and 0s with additional lines to make it look like trees and mountains. It looks very familiar and reminded me of a previous puzzle I saw somewhere but can’t think of where it was.
Could this somehow lead to a private key or is it just a fools errand?
Obviously not wanting to add photos of everything in case it does turn out to be a key, but not really sure where to start.
Here’s some obscured photos of the tags:
https://imgur.com/a/R9lDq5o - shows some of the characters
https://imgur.com/a/JzdMtpV - shows part of the weird pattern and the whole symbol from the reverse of the characters
Anyone recognise the 1s, 0s and trees/mountain reference? Or the symbol?
Is it not possible for wallet providers to go rogue and add malicious code to their wallets to intercept private keys or seed phrases? Because this looks like a critical point of failure. Is it not possible that wallet devs could suddenly just publish an update that suddenly steals everything from you one day? Is this not essentially trusting your keys to a third party?
Because of this reason, should closed-source wallets ever be trusted?
Even with open-source wallets... What if the core group of contributors and auditors colluded and released a malicious wallet update to Github for even a few minutes... Does that mean your private keys are still not your own as long as you're using wallet software?
Same thing with hardware wallets, because you're trusting the company that makes the hardware. They could just as easily go rogue.
Are these not all centralized points of failure? Seems quite trivial for a government to coerce individuals to do these things. Is cryptocurrency and blockchain technology vulnerable to attack in this manner then?
Hey I am new to Vertcoin, just downloaded Vertcoin Core, created a Wallet and downloaded the Blockchain. But I want to get my private key or a recovery phrase, in case my laptop dies haha.
Let's say I create a new wallet on Ethereum blockchain. The wallet address (which is basically my public key) is 0xABC123. Because I am the owner I also have the private keys to this wallet on Ethereum and can access the funds there.
But, does my private key also give me access to wallet 0xABC123 on BSC, Polygon and other EVM-compatible chains?
In other words, I am wondering if I create a wallet on ETH, do I then inherently also own the same wallet on other EVM-compatible chains. Continuing from above example, if someone would send me some BNB to my BSC address 0xABC123, would I have access to it, even though I never explicitly made the wallet on BSC?
Talking about BIP 39...
I understand how a 24 word phrase is used to represent 256 bits (the private key).
But how does a 12 word phrase, which can only be represented from 128 bits, generate a private key of 256 bits? Where do the other 128 bits of the private key come from? Is it just randomly generated from the BIP 39 process?
I thought the whole idea of "being your own bank" means your in total control over your wallet? I understand we don't have a private key for the L2 wallet as it is different to a regular wallet in that it is a smart contract. We have an underlying L1 wallet though which is a regular address yet we cant access our secret key, so how is this wallet different to storing coins on a centralised exchange and the whole "not your keys, not your crypto" also applies here. If loopring is gone how would we recover our wallet if we don't control the L1 wallet. Do loopring store or have access to our secret key?
I'm not trying FUD loopring and i'm a big fan, i just want to know if there is a valid reason for this. I have been in crypto for a while and understand the tech quite a lot but feel not many have questioned this part. The protocol itself seems decentralised, we can use our own existing wallets to interact will L2 if we wish, but the smart wallet seems like it is possibly somewhat centralised but i may be mistaken. If loopring no longer existed how would we then recover our wallets if we had the smart wallet?
Edit: people downvoting are rediculous, this isn't FUD, this is a question about the tech. If you don't want to know more about the tech why even read this sub. I love the apes and the positivity but down voting legitimate questions about the tech and how it works is not very constructive either.
I was just checking out hashport, but got scared off, as when I wanted to connect my wallet, they asked me to actually enter my private key / mnemonic phrase of my hbar wallet.
Surely this cannot be the way to use that service, otherwise they just gain full access to anyones hbar wallets?!
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I’m looking for a hardware wallet which supports major coins, Monero would be a plus but not required. Most important however to me is whether I have access to the seed phrase and/or private keys of the wallet in case, for example, the wallet gets permanently damaged or the wallet provider becomes compromised and I need to change providers.
I am new to crypto and I am looking to get a hardware wallet so I can store my crypto that I will buying.
I read some time ago that Ledger got hacked and peoples names, emails, and phone numbers were leaked.
Are seed phrases and private keys also stored on Ledger servers? If so, does that mean there is the possibility that someone could hack Ledger and steel my seed phrase and with that steel my crypto even though it was stored on a hard wallet?
Hello,
I found my old LTC wallet, checked in a blockchain - it has some funds worth to bother ;)
Also, I have an RSA private key, 25 strings similar to:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----M
MI7EpWI5AAKCAQEArHTyEANlxRbuL6ruqgzpFXmrAgFyCjPih/eUxYAYS5vseo/ia
.........
........
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Can anyone suggest how to recover my wallet with that info?
Thanks!
Leo
Going off of the elliptic curve cryptography standard that Bitcoin is using, I’m aware that the chances of guessing the corresponding private key from a public key are 2^256.
My question is what sort of data is needed to compute a private key from a public key?
Are there any parameters from the initial generation of the public key that could aid in such a computation?
ive been trying to figure out how the frick i am supposed to find my private keys for the past hour and still have not found anything
"The FBI’s technical expertise was able to trace the money to the subject’s crypto wallet and seize those funds."
Apparantly, the suspect had moved the funds to a cold wallet. According to my understanding of how cold wallets and private keys work there's only a couple of ways I can think of that would enable the FBI to aquire the keys:
- The suspect was coerced into giving over the seed
- They had physical access to the hardware wallet and brute forced the pin or were given the pin by the suspect
Does anyone have any other ideas or knowledge about how the FBI would have been able to obtain the private key in this situation?
Hi, Does anyone know how to access nano with private key? Thanks for help 😊
What am I doing wrong? https://i.imgur.com/XbrzDVs.jpg
Ive had a paper wallet with a substantial amount of money on it for 5 years.
I generated it using bitaddress.
What i have is the public and private key, but i need the passphrase to unlock it.
I think i know a part of the password, but cant seem to guess it.
Is there anything i can do here?
I opened my wallet with Trust Wallet, but they seem like a bad company so I wanted to change to Atomic Wallet. More staking, better look, easier to understand in app exchange and other features. But now while a few of my addresses stayed the same (RVN, BCH, ZEC, DOGE etc.) some of them are not the same! (ETH/ERC, TRX/TRC, BTC, ALGO et.) I’m just confused if this is normal or not, or if not if there’s a way to fix this? Thanks in advanced for any help you can provide! <3
Hello all, I need help from experts since I'm still learning this complex world.
Today I have bitcoin in two different wallets (different private keys) : one with all bitcoin I bought anonimously from P2P, and the other with the bitcoin I bought from a centralised exchange.
I wanted to have all bitcoin under the same private key. If in ledger live I create 2 different bitcoin accounts, is it possible to discover that those 2 adresses belong to the same person??
Thank you very much for your help ;)
Should I also write down and securely keep my defi wallet address somewhere as well? My thought is that if I say lost my phone and couldn’t access my defi wallet, then I couldn’t recover my account with only my private key. Should I have both address and private key written down?
Hello all, so like many other fellow proton wallet users I have been locked out of my account because my initial device was damaged and I replaced it. The store backed everything up and transferred to the new device (IOS) a few days later I discovered that I had no private key and after much back and forth have been told there is nothing that can be done and that this is an expensive lesson.
The proton team went on to create the lifeboat feature to aid us in finding our PKs. Kudos to them for acknowledging the issue with IOS and there being no warning or lack of notification of the importance of the PK. Unfortunately for me the lifeboat did not work. Ive had proton customer support acknowledge the fault in the wallet and apologize which I really appreciate.
The proton wallet and network is still very new and there will be kinks along the way but considering how new it is I really feel like more should be done to help the customers that are in this situation.
I have spoken to several people and they all agree that the PK and its importance is not general knowledge nor clearly advised unless you go into the menu and search around. My conversation about my situation made 4 people aware of it and then they backed it up/saved it thankfully.
Proton team-
lets work together to fix this. Ive read that users can close accounts and if there is a balance it would be lost, maybe this could help people in my situation ? Also I recently read that proton burns coins? So what if you burned the coins of users in our situation and somehow credited us to a new account( best believe that PK will be saved everywhere).
Where their is a will, there is a way. Ive spoken to many people and have been bashed and disrespected for my issue so please non of that. Ive heard it all!
Thanks again, happy holidays all!
If you have certificate authority private keys you can masquerade around as just about anyone on the internet. Does anyone have this power? Clearly there are tricks like concatenating partial keys, but somewhere there's a computer someone has access to that needs a complete certificate authority private key to compute a signature. How is the problem avoided?
I was wondering if there is a reason why my private key wallet on blockchain.com does not let me transfer the full balance to my trading wallet on the same site. It always wanted to keep ~1 XLM on the wallet.
I have a Trevor wallet. I have my 12 word seed phrase. How do I find the private key? Thanks.
