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Re: Working way of installing electrum onto Ubuntu live USB?
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MichaelBliss
on 05/12/2017, 02:33:42 UTC
I updated my script to support dependency installation on ubuntu. Tested this with Ubuntu 16.0.4.3 live as well as Debian 9.2 live

https://github.com/BitcoinsPakistan/electrum-install

Download and run the install script using sudo

Code:
wget https://github.com/BitcoinsPakistan/electrum-install/raw/master/install
sudo bash install 3.0.2

And this worked like a charm.  Thank you! 
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Re: Working way of installing electrum onto Ubuntu live USB?
by
MichaelBliss
on 04/12/2017, 19:30:07 UTC
Just an idea, maybe it helps getting to a solution without more install headache:

Maybe it would be less hassle to build yourself a paper wallet. Instead of the 13 nice words you'll have an ugly private key, I know, but you can get the zip from bitaddress.org page, build the paper wallet offline and .. done.
Unzip and browser should not be a problem, I hope.

Thanks that's probably true, but this isn't meant for me, it's for computer-iliterate friends to have a more secure environment to bitcoin from.   The premise being most people use Windows, and who knows what malware they may have on their system.

I'd just like to get a USB with a clean linux OS and a working electrum in their hands.
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Working way of installing electrum onto Ubuntu live USB?
by
MichaelBliss
on 04/12/2017, 19:21:09 UTC
I've tried all the (old) instructions on how to install Electrum from a live Ubuntu USB, but nothing is working for me.   I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

The software center install doesn't work..but that's fine, the version there is pretty old. 

But the instructions from the electrum website are also not working for me.    Even after working around all the various error messages, and installying python3 etc... .still no dice.

Is there a tried and tested way of getting electrum to install on a live Ubuntu CD?  I'm hoping to install it, unplug ethernet cable, run it, and write down the 13 keywords and receive address, then send coins to the (cold) wallet, and one day make it "hot" by re-building from my 13 keywords.   Reasonable?
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Re: Bitcoin Gold (BTG)
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MichaelBliss
on 14/11/2017, 19:25:23 UTC
Can anyone tell me: if I take enter my 12 electrum keywords to obtain my wallet on my new computer, will this be the old wallet with the BTG still attached? i.e. can I claim my BTG from a wallet I restored today using the 12 keywords?  Or does it require the old, original wallet? 

i.e. When you enter you 12 keywords to rebuild a wallet in electrum, are the BTG from October 24th snap shot accessible from the restored wallet??
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Re: did I lose my BCC when I transfered my blockchain.info balance
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MichaelBliss
on 02/09/2017, 00:48:15 UTC
Oops..I used electron cash to sweep the uncompressed blockchain.info private key.  And I used https://www.bitaddress.org/ to uncompress that key.  Hope this helps.
Wow,sounds like you have complicated the process further ! Let me guide you to a cleaner way,

1.Do you have the uncompressed private key (scannable) from the blockchain.info address ?
2.You can download the coinomi wallet and scan the private key from blockchain.info there.They have a BCC wallet so you shall get your coins.

Seems less complex and trustworthy as I have did the same without any problems.

Considering the process is complete, I think you're the one complicating things.
1. The private key from blockchain.info was compressed, not uncompressed, I had to uncompress it myself.
2.  No I couldn't.  (Tried that days ago, and it didn't work).

What worked for you, won't work for everyone.   
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Re: did I lose my BCC when I transfered my blockchain.info balance
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MichaelBliss
on 01/09/2017, 13:22:08 UTC

I have also recovered my BCC from blockchain.info wallet using same method you have mentioned above with electroncash.

I think either your electroncash is not synchronized or you might not had any balance during the time of fork. 

Thanks I've solved my problem since.   For anyone curious, what ended up working was sweeping the private key from blockchain.info, but I had to first uncompress it, copy/pasting the key didn't work.   
That's good that you solved this problem by yourself,

So what client do you use to sweep with your coin from blockchain.info? Maybe you can mention it here so people having the same problem with yours can read it and will be able to solve their future problem regarding this matter.

Oops..I used electron cash to sweep the uncompressed blockchain.info private key.  And I used https://www.bitaddress.org/ to uncompress that key.  Hope this helps.
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Re: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It
by
MichaelBliss
on 01/09/2017, 00:16:28 UTC
Since it seems that he owns a decent stash the stockholders could try to organize to recover something. As an owner of 200 shares on Havelock I would happily pay 50% of whatever is recovered in my name to whoever does the job.

Willing to pay 50% as well, 42 shares owned directly.

Same if such a thing were possible.  I had 100 shares directly with friedcat.  Sad
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Re: Aug 1 summary
by
MichaelBliss
on 01/09/2017, 00:12:02 UTC


Thank you.  That may have saved me a lot of work, and it seems a bit strange that no support from Blockchain.info, nor ledger nor trezor were able to point that out to me.

Maybe gives additional support to the wild, wild west of bitcoin and the need to attempt to figure out some things on your own - or at least to increase knowledge about some of the underlying technicals.





You're welcome, and I know what you mean since I spent like 6 hours figuring that out.   Maybe it'll help someone else reading this too.  Tips are quite welcome btw: 1SD2BGmaob83dvmy42pKKw4W81ttfhKqQ   (btc)  Tongue
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Re: Aug 1 summary
by
MichaelBliss
on 31/08/2017, 22:16:58 UTC
I just moved all my btc from my  blockchain.info wallet from 2013 elsewhere, but when I enter the 12 recovery words from blockchain.info into electron cash, as I did successfully with my electrum wallet before, it shows a blanance of 0 bcc.  What am I doing wrong?
are you sure the address displayed in electoncash is same as your bitcoin address from which you sent the bitcoins to another account?Did you wait till the electron cash synced?If you can then try exporting your private key from blockchain since it's the old account you should have an option to export the private key and then enter that in electron cash and you will see bcc.if there is no option to export private key then you're screwed.contact blockchain support in that case

Thanks, I tried restoring with the 12 keywords first, no dice..0 bcc balance. I also tried sweeping the private key, didn't work.. then I finally found my answer after some google searching, blockchain.info gives you a compressed private key, had to uncompress it first, then entered that key into electron cash and my bcc was there.  Took a while to figure this out.


I would be interested in seeing this information about uncompressing private keys.  Do you have a link?  Anyone?  Because from my post, above, it appears that I may have gone through a process that is longer than necessary, when I could have just attempted to obtain an uncompressed private key (or convert my supposedly compressed private key to an uncompressed one, if that is the right way to describe the process?).

Here's one tool: https://www.bitaddress.org/    under "wallet details"...
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Re: did I lose my BCC when I transfered my blockchain.info balance
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MichaelBliss
on 31/08/2017, 22:10:45 UTC

I have also recovered my BCC from blockchain.info wallet using same method you have mentioned above with electroncash.

I think either your electroncash is not synchronized or you might not had any balance during the time of fork. 

Thanks I've solved my problem since.   For anyone curious, what ended up working was sweeping the private key from blockchain.info, but I had to first uncompress it, copy/pasting the key didn't work.   
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Re: Aug 1 summary
by
MichaelBliss
on 28/08/2017, 23:51:16 UTC
I just moved all my btc from my  blockchain.info wallet from 2013 elsewhere, but when I enter the 12 recovery words from blockchain.info into electron cash, as I did successfully with my electrum wallet before, it shows a blanance of 0 bcc.  What am I doing wrong?
are you sure the address displayed in electoncash is same as your bitcoin address from which you sent the bitcoins to another account?Did you wait till the electron cash synced?If you can then try exporting your private key from blockchain since it's the old account you should have an option to export the private key and then enter that in electron cash and you will see bcc.if there is no option to export private key then you're screwed.contact blockchain support in that case

Thanks, I tried restoring with the 12 keywords first, no dice..0 bcc balance. I also tried sweeping the private key, didn't work.. then I finally found my answer after some google searching, blockchain.info gives you a compressed private key, had to uncompress it first, then entered that key into electron cash and my bcc was there.  Took a while to figure this out.
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Re: Aug 1 summary
by
MichaelBliss
on 28/08/2017, 00:08:28 UTC
That is strange, that's weird. So you are seeing a balance or 0 bcc or 0 btc? Because you said you moved your btc to another wallet, and you see 0 bcc??

Electron cash is for BCC, so I am seeing 0 BCC balance as I said.
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Re: did I lose my BCC when I transfered my blockchain.info balance
by
MichaelBliss
on 28/08/2017, 00:07:23 UTC
Yes as I said I moved the bitcoin from the blockchain wallet, to another place.  Took the 12 keywords down, enter them into electron cash, but there is 0 BCC balance.
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Re: did I lose my BCC when I transfered my blockchain.info balance
by
MichaelBliss
on 27/08/2017, 23:35:55 UTC
I was trying to access my BCC balance from my now empty of BTC Blockchain wallet using the 12 recovery words from blockchain.info when creating an electron cash wallet.  I hope that makes sense.

What would I change the network settings to?
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Re: Aug 1 summary
by
MichaelBliss
on 27/08/2017, 22:00:22 UTC
I just moved all my btc from my  blockchain.info wallet from 2013 elsewhere, but when I enter the 12 recovery words from blockchain.info into electron cash, as I did successfully with my electrum wallet before, it shows a blanance of 0 bcc.  What am I doing wrong?
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did I lose my BCC when I transfered my blockchain.info balance
by
MichaelBliss
on 27/08/2017, 21:50:22 UTC
I just tried to recover my BCC from my blockchain.info wallet the same way I did with my electrum wallet but something seems to have gone wrong...   I first transferred the balance as that worked with electrum as per their instructions, then I entered the 12 word recovery phrase, selected BIP 39, but 0 balance...   

Did I mess up by moving the bitcoin first?  With the electrum wallet, the transfer didn't affect the BCC since it was post-fork.. 

Can I still recover my wallet somehow?
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Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia.
by
MichaelBliss
on 17/02/2015, 18:29:37 UTC

I see a lot of angry Russians in this thread. You shouldn't be ashamed, you have such a beautiful history of shooting unarmed prisoners in the back of the head (1940), just like ISIS is doing now.

It wasn't about unarmed prisoners, but about deserters.
Enacted by Djugashivi/Stalin - a Georgian.
And now this practice is encated by law in modern Ukraine.
PoWs in USSR got better rations than the Soviet citizens. Get your history strait - historical accuracy is not optional thing to serve your needs.


I'm on your side of the argument but I have to point out he could be referring to the Katyn massacre by the NKVD, where thousands of the most educated Poles - officers, doctors, etc. - were rounded up, and executed many with a bullet to the back of the head.  (Although I believe, many more were put out on barges then sunk).

The Soviets blamed this crime on the Germans for decades, and many Poles have not forgiven "Russia" for this national catastrophe.   Nor has Russia properly apologized or taken responsibly for this, or any of their atrocities against Poland in WWII.    Just trying to shed some light on Poland's seemingly pro-banderite stance, but not justify it in any way.
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Re: How Many Bitcoiners are Mentally Ill?
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MichaelBliss
on 17/02/2015, 16:34:12 UTC
I'm curious if anyone has closed bank account for real and went all Bitcoin?

You can buy more and more things with Bitcoin but I still (for now).

Not a wise idea because many clients still pay with fiat and bitcoin is too volatile to invest all in.
Anyone who is paid in bitcoin would also be wise to convert half their paycheck at least into a stable fiat so they aren't forced to spend thier BTC on the dips.

It will take a few more years before one can begin to start to suggest this tactic as a wise financial decision.

Nonsense.  He wasn't asking for opinions, but if anyone is doing it.   It doesn't sound like you are "inBitweTrust", and nobody asked for your wisdom anyway.

Yes, there are plenty of people who are "all in", with no bank account.   I'm one of them, and despite the previous comment, it's worked out well.  Would be nice to pay my bills with bitcoin though...
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Re: How Many Bitcoiners are Mentally Ill?
by
MichaelBliss
on 16/02/2015, 19:52:08 UTC
Just briefly glancing through here it seems like anywhere from 15-25% could be diagnosed as morbidly paranoid, with 5% of that as full bore schizophrenia. There's also a great deal of mania in this forum, with the other subforums exhibiting mania/depression or both depending on the subject. It's difficult to parse through a forum but it just seems like an unusually large number of posters here are suffering from some combination of narcissistic/victim personality disorder, either resulting from social isolation, autism spectrum diseases, substance abuse (perhaps bitcoin's primary use) or PTSD.

Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!  Grin

Epic post.  I would only caution that the "bitcoin community" IS NOT the bitcointalk community!
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Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia.
by
MichaelBliss
on 16/02/2015, 19:44:10 UTC
If your talking about the Kiev regime, they were installed not voted in, after a coup d'etat...  If your talking about Western governments in general, than maybe they have credibility in terms of representing their own people, but they have none when it comes to meddling in foreign countries.   Look what they've done to everything they've touched, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya...  Those were all catastrophes, so zero credibility there.

Same thing can be said about Russians, who love to put the pots that don't belong to them. They had their fun in Afghanistan too, then in Yugoslavia, Chechnya and of course Georgia.

True, the Russians have invaded and bombed 50 countries around the world in the last decades and killed and maimed millions of people. And they have 700 military bases around the world, let´s not forget that.

LOl be careful!  I'm not sure the "other side" is capable of understanding sarcasm.