Re: Unable to use the seed from a wallet file to make any transaction
- Someone somehow was able to put malware on my one month old computer, and somehow intervened the wallet creation process and modified the wallet before I encrypt it.
- Electrum has bug.
Maybe the seller put something on it?
Was the computer on offer from a corner shop somewhere that sells computers and electronics...
The bug thing is potentiallly likely.
I just had an idea, can you try going to the concole and type "getmasterprivate" and try importing that into a new electrum wallet. .
No, it is a custom PC I built, all with brand new components, and using Windows ISO directly downloaded and installed from Microsoft.
Tried to import the master private key instead, but the result is the same as importing seed. It shows me a different list of address.
Here's the thread you created there. You've since deleted the contents.
Re your electrum problem then it's likely malware that alters the wallet's contents and adds its own address to your wallet file. An example of an altered file is given here. When you open the original wallet do you get asked for the password at the very start or only when you go to spend from the wallet?
Re your electrum problem then it's likely malware that alters the wallet's contents and adds its own address to your wallet file. An example of an altered file is given here. When you open the original wallet do you get asked for the password at the very start or only when you go to spend from the wallet?
Just fyi according to some Reddit archive search, the post is made by a user named Na297 and I have been using the same username for year, I am not sure what the content was, but I believe it is only a few sentences with no point unlike my post which describe the details.
Thank you for that GitHub issue, at least someone is experiencing a similar situation as mine, I can't find any on the internet. The only different I can see is, the error code he received is '-1', while mine is '1', not sure if there is any difference.
In his case, the address is gone, and no fund left in the wallet. But I am not, I still have the balance, just unable to sent it. Also, he seems to have the same addresses after restoring it using seed, while I am having a completely different list of addresses.
I get asked for password every time I need to use the wallet, given it on startup or showing seed. The wallet is encrypted since it is created.
This is what I got from signature verification, should be fine.
So far, I can think of two ways to identify the current issue.
- Decrypt the problematic wallet file and see what is wrong with the file, and perhaps found the actual private keys for the address.
- Use the 3.1.2 Electrum to generate a new seed, and import that seed to a 3.2.2 Electrum wallet to see if it is giving a wrong list of addresses.
I have done the second method, nothing seems off, all addresses matched perfectly.
I am not sure how should I decrypt the file safely yet.[/list]