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Re: 🔴HADRON🔴⠀Web⠀Browser⠀AI⠀Mining🔴 Mine⠀on⠀your⠀phone⠀and⠀PC,⠀make⠀a⠀diff⠀🔴

deescrid

on 26/01/2018, 14:31:27 UTC

Hi, I'd love to get involved in the project.

PC1:
Ryzen 5 1600
AMD VEGA 64
8GB DDR4 RAM
PaleMoon / FireFox

PC2:
FX-6300
AMD R9 370 2GB
8GB DDR3 RAM
PaleMoon / FireFox

Smartphone:
Galaxy S3
CyanogenMod
FireFox

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Re: Have you been a victim of scams?

deescrid

on 04/01/2018, 14:31:12 UTC

Hard to qualify as a scam but it's certainly close enough to warrant warning others about it.

Sent a number of NXT to ShapeShift about 10 days before the IGNIS airdrop. The exchange failed (still shows awaiting deposit), and due to ShapeShift being absolutely crap, they still haven't responded to my support request even to this day.

From other NXT users who have also experienced this same issue during this timeframe, I have found that ShapeShift are refusing to return the airdropped IGNIS saying they "don't support it".

So we're supposed to believe that ShapeShift are just going to ignore the potentially millions of $ worth of IGNIS? I doubt they're going to leave these tokens unclaimed for the rest of time, don't you? What a convenient problem this has turned out to be for them. NXT deposits break before the airdrop, they keep the IGNIS and refund the worthless NXT back to users claiming they've done their bit.

So, advise? Never, ever, ever use ShapeShit. You'll be waiting for weeks for a response if anything goes wrong, and they're basically acting as thieves in this instance.

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Re: Is Xspec a scam like DeepOnion? Whats even the fucking point?

deescrid

on 04/01/2018, 14:18:43 UTC

Supporter of XSPEC here.

I have seen absolutely nothing to suspect that this coin is a scam. And I would know, I bought QuarkCoins whilst Bill Still was pumping. So my scam-radar is pretty finely tuned now.

The coin has some fantastic tech behind it (OBFS4, stealth staking coming shortly, staking donation slider, lots more). It has easily the best community of any crypto I've been involved with, and there is no shill team involved anywhere. Come join the slack channel if you think otherwise.

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Re: [ANN] [Pre-ICO] Sphere - Decentralized Social Networking >200,000 users

deescrid

on 19/12/2017, 06:44:59 UTC

Quote from: cantdecide on December 19, 2017, 05:36:10 AM

Will someone moderate this social media? Because what is with topics which are not really so nice, people whith racistic background or stuff? Could this be a darknet 2?

Why not moderate it yourself?

You know, that strange old idea of if you don't like something, don't look at it?

Do you have to have someone else deciding what you can or can't look at on social media?

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Re: Stuck btc transaction

deescrid

on 18/12/2017, 15:54:15 UTC

Hi,

You're probably aware of this by now but the transactions do appear to be confirming on the network.

Consider paying a higher fee if you want a faster transaction next time - particularly when the network is busy (you can see how busy the network is here: http://bitcointicker.co/networkstats/).

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Re: Strange behaviour when trying to restore old wallet.

deescrid

on 12/12/2017, 15:41:01 UTC

Thanks Loyce.

I do believe there are altcoins that can and will succeed, but you are right in that the vast majority are just engines to extract BTC from people such as myself.

On the bright side I haven't "lost" much, except for a potential gain.

I'll take it as a lesson, and be smarter in the future.

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Re: Importing Encrypted back up wallet to New wallet?

deescrid

on 12/12/2017, 15:31:12 UTC

Hi,

If you have the private key right in front of you, you should be able to directly import that in to another wallet such as Electrum.

If you have it but its "inside" the encrypted wallet, then you're going to need to figure that password out before you can retrieve the private key.

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Re: Strange behaviour when trying to restore old wallet.

deescrid

on 12/12/2017, 14:30:43 UTC

Thank you Sopa.

So, BTC-Core is reading the wallet.dat file incorrectly because its a QuarkCoin wallet. Odd, but a good explanation.

I'm pretty confused as I dont remember doing this but I can't argue with results.

Sadly 4,000 QRK are virtually worthless nowadays. I guess this can be a good lesson to anyone looking at altcoins. I'll see if I can sell them but for such a small amount I'd guess that the fees will make it not worth it.

I'm still going to hunt around on my PC for any other wallets. I know for certain I had some BTC. Though I have a sinking feeling that they were stupidly left on BTC-E a long time ago.

If I do manage to get anything Sopa I'll be sure to send you a thank you.

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Re: Strange behaviour when trying to restore old wallet.

deescrid

on 12/12/2017, 13:45:04 UTC

For the first transaction shown:

TXID:

Code:

37dc3fe6ffddb07229a759f8144e9afddbb46d10ca27b77168ff0edd97e44366

raw transaction:

Code:

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

I did dabble in a few altcoins but they were pretty doomed. Specifically, QuarkCoin and FedoraCoin. I'm pretty certain that I never moved any significant amount in to either of these coins because I didn't want the risk (in hindsight, pretty accurate).
I had my wallets stored relatively cleanly in seperate folders for each coin, however, you have a valid point, so I will do some checking with some other things and see what happens.

I really appreciate the help by the way, thank you.

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Re: Strange behaviour when trying to restore old wallet.

deescrid

on 12/12/2017, 13:20:39 UTC

Thanks for the help all.

I realize I'm chasing ghosts sadly but I'm still super pissed / annoyed / confused.

The address that the transactions came from appears to have never been used either. So both the sending and recieving address are completely empty and never had any transactions. I'd have figured that at least the sending address must have some record of BTC being in it at some point in order to create the (doomed) transactions?

In other words, I just.... I can't understand how I have these ghost transactions in my wallet if both sending and receiving addresses have never had any funds at all (according to the blockchain)?

This would be a life changing amount of funds nowadays, for it to simply "vanish without a trace" is really, really messed up. If the transactions failed and the funds went back to the sending address I could understand but it's like the whole thing has just completely disappeared without a trace.

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Re: Strange behaviour when trying to restore old wallet.

deescrid

on 12/12/2017, 03:24:34 UTC

Just for info, this is what I get when opening the wallet with 0.7.0:

https://s8.postimg.org/xt53gpj4l/btccore_error4.jpg

From what I've read, this old version won't ever fully sync with the server, so I doubt it'll have any impact.

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Re: Found Bitcoin and litecoin wallet files from 2012. Lost password. Help?

deescrid

on 12/12/2017, 02:52:46 UTC

For what it's worth I can verify thefragile99's statement that the hash alone should be quite safe - a thief would need both the wallet file and the password/encryption key to be able to unlock it. If you do go ahead with the suggestion (do your own research first), just make sure that the hash and result are being transmitted securely.

Unless you have some reason to suspect that someone else has a copy of the wallet then there should be minimal risk.

That said - I hope the computer in question is being kept offline! Looking out for you, you've mentioned a relatively significant amount of numbers in this thread, you will be a target to unscrupulous types. Please be careful.

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Re: Found Bitcoin and litecoin wallet files from 2012. Lost password. Help?

deescrid

on 12/12/2017, 02:23:48 UTC

Quote from: Btcspot on December 12, 2017, 02:20:00 AM

Hey man you should try this
Download Pywallet here https://github.com/joric/pywallet I think its the msi version. search for your wallet.dat with the command. Then run the -dumpwallet command it should dump to a text file. When that happens, you will have the private keys then you can download electrum from electrum.org and input keys to electrum. There should be a tutorial on the electrum website or search google that tell you how. Then you should have your bitcoins, hope this helps if you send me some of the reward i would be greatful, Im only asking for 10 or 15 btc if this works or even for helping you. I really need it for holidays and hope you will.
My wallet address ill send to you.

Hi Btcspot,
The password will still be required for this to work. The file is encrypted and nothing is going to be able to extract the private keys without it, because it's gibberish.

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Re: Found Bitcoin and litecoin wallet files from 2012. Lost password. Help?

deescrid

on 12/12/2017, 02:17:22 UTC

In a nutshell, you're going to have a tough time.

If you dont know ANYTHING about the passwords then brute-forcing them could easily take years. It might not finish during your lifetime.

If you know SOME information about the passwords, you can massively reduce the amount of possibilities that would need to be attempted. The more info you have the better. Of course, if you get any of this info wrong, then the correct password might not even be attempted, making the whole thing a massive waste of time.

Funnily enough, I am in a similar situation myself at the moment (though my wallet appears to be broken along with my password not working). But I'm not so concerned about cracking the password currently because as far as I can tell, my wallet is for empty for whatever stupid reason (there is a seperate thread on this), so it would be a waste of my time.

I honestly think the best thing you can do is really have a good sit down and start typing down in notepad password possibilities. Are you the type of person to replace e's with 3's? Are you the type of person that uses the same password over and over, but just changes it slightly?

Try to recreate your surroundings at the time when you would have created the password. Down to re-arranging the room, perhaps even re-creating the day that you did it (if you do remember anything at all about it). Memories work in funny ways, and sometimes just re-living an experience of that day can spark the retrieval of a memory of what you did.

I wish you all the luck in the world.

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Strange behaviour when trying to restore old wallet.

deescrid

on 11/12/2017, 23:38:30 UTC

Hi all,

Returning BTC dude here.

I was digging through my PC recently for old wallets that I know are knocking around and I found one in particular that appeared to have a number of funds associated with it (which matched my memory of having a certain amount of BTC too, so it wasn't unexpected). This one in particular was from 2013.

When I open it in Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 (which is the version stored on my previous installation and therefore presumably the version the wallet was used with, I get the following behavior:

https://s8.postimg.org/wmrwqv3c5/btccore_error.jpg
Inbound transactions only. No outbound. No pending balance. No receiving addresses(!!!)

https://s8.postimg.org/z5dlriu79/btccore_error2.jpg
Completely blank receive dialogue box. Allows me to create a new address with no issue, seemingly.

https://s8.postimg.org/3mxiagcvp/btccore_error3.jpg
The three transactions show correctly in the transactions tab. The Transaction info gives an ID that does not show on the blockchain. The status on all 3 transactions is: Status: 0/unconfirmed, not in memory pool

I've come to accept the fact that my wallet appears to be screwed, or something, and the coins will probably not be recoverable (though if anyone is able to set me on a path to recovery I will absolutely reward them).

What I would at least like to know, is if anyone can give an explanation of what happened here. Back in 2013 transactions didn't take a long time to confirm. I can't understand how there are several days between the transactions but yet none of them are confirmed at all in the wallet. Zero shows in the available and the pending transactions.

FYI - if I open the wallet in v0.7.0 then I get the same behavior, except the total balance of the incoming transactions shows in the "Pending balance" section (which appears correct?).

I've checked the receiving address on blockchain.info and it appears to be completely un-used. I find it difficult to believe that I would have left this unresolved back in 2013 before I stopped using the wallet! I find it even harder to believe that the first transaction wouldn't have been confirmed or rejected by the time that the third transaction had happened several days later!