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Re: I accidentally sent 20 btc to p2pool in transaction fees...
by
Kluge
on 17/12/2013, 02:59:14 UTC
I reposted, If you could sign message with the address you send such high transaction fee, you might get some tips, but I doubt about the 20 BTC

how's this:

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is aliens_exist_1 of the 20 bitcoin tx fee sob story. I posted my story on reddit here http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1t1nvl/i_accidentally_sent_a_brainwallet_transaction/
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1Jt35Ww1GjM9iGyTM8mAyBmCPPdPz7Z35A G2GI3yhycdNoQqJQgFr+JvRsq2eSnNuKiLnRl5ZoD0JJpgBKPzKKA1JC9+uQRH1uMEg3webgh+tBQO/ihoSw4uc=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Is that pseudo-PGP ASCII wrapper common now?

Quote from: my box

kjj@inana:/usr/src/bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/src/src$ bitcoind verifymessage "1Jt35Ww1GjM9iGyTM8mAyBmCPPdPz7Z35A" "G2GI3yhycdNoQqJQgFr+JvRsq2eSnNuKiLnRl5ZoD0JJpgBKPzKKA1JC9+uQRH1uMEg3webgh+tBQO/ihoSw4uc=" \
"This is aliens_exist_1 of the 20 bitcoin tx fee sob story. I posted my story on reddit here http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1t1nvl/i_accidentally_sent_a_brainwallet_transaction/"
true

It's very non-standard among the different clients. Armory actually has three different signing schemes, but was unable to read the provided one without dissecting it and entering the different fields myself. Clearsign in Armory:
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Comment: Signed by Bitcoin Armory v0.90

I am a potato
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNATURE-----


GyXbhi6tf+VHafadv/OpkJcirRtke8sELbAdwqrUC4JPUi2sx8FdJLCLcj/TJPRK
iB+hr1XwMyILc7hkdMhldaU=
=e99g
-----END BITCOIN SIGNATURE-----