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Topic: .05BTC (~$1,700) to whoever helps me successfully extract my BTC from CLI wallet - page 5. (Read 1848 times)

legendary
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I am lost...
Finally - does he have his DECODED private key, or ENCODED?
If it is ENCODED and he has password, he must use blockstack to decode it.

What he posted is not a private key HEX form (ef242kfjj24ekf3223...) and cannot be easily converted into WIF.

21XO: were you able to launch blockstack and retrieve your private key?

Maybe it's a base36 string.

Converting it into hex using javascript gives this:

Code:
parseInt("ef242kfjj24ekf3223jesdkhefsfhk324wuefhw38fhrypofhtr34d342132d34", 36).toString(16)
"14e5771b8ad8e800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

Not sure how to make sense of this number though. It's 82 characters long, to many to be a private key.
legendary
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Getting blockstack to run should be the easiest way.

If i were you, i'd try to use the software used to generate that key to retrieve the coins.
A few dependency problems shouldn't be holding you back, this can be fixed quite easily.
legendary
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I am lost...
Finally - does he have his DECODED private key, or ENCODED?
If it is ENCODED and he has password, he must use blockstack to decode it.

What he posted is not a private key HEX form (ef242kfjj24ekf3223...) and cannot be easily converted into WIF.

21XO: were you able to launch blockstack and retrieve your private key?
legendary
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Okay I just installed Ruby but can someone confirm exactly what code I should save in the "ruby your_file_name.rb" document if my private key is: ef242kfjj24ekf3223jesdkhefsfhk324wuefhw38fhrypofhtr34d342132d34jsd01 ?

If your private key length is 66 and end with 01, then you need to change these line

Code:
privatekey = "0351764dc07ee1ad038ff49c0e020799f0a350dd0769017ea09460e150a64019"
extended = "ef" + privatekey + "01" #  you can remove 01 to make your wallet generate uncompressed public key

into

Code:
privatekey = "ef242kfjj24ekf3223jesdkhefsfhk324wuefhw38fhrypofhtr34d342132d34jsd01"
extended = "80" + privatekey

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You need to install ruby, save the code on a file and run it with this command


Code:
ruby your_file_name.rb


https://ibb.co/09S189V

Are you sure notepadwif.rb file is located on ~ ?
jr. member
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You need to install ruby, save the code on a file and run it with this command


Code:
ruby your_file_name.rb


https://ibb.co/09S189V
legendary
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The blockstack JSON he posted suggests that this could be a master private key, but those are also 64 hex characters long and begin with xprv, but this hex number doesn't have either of these properties.
If the string starts with xprv then it is no longer encoded using hexadecimal characters. They use base58 instead. But 32 bytes can also be the seed that were used in BIP32 or BIP39. For example from BIP39 test vectors:
Code:
68a79eaca2324873eacc50cb9c6eca8cc68ea5d936f98787c60c7ebc74e6ce7c

There is also a "passphrase" in BIP39 that can extend the mnemonic generated from the above seed to get entirely different set of child keys.
legendary
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Okay I just installed Ruby but can someone confirm exactly what code I should save in the "ruby your_file_name.rb" document if my private key is: ef242kfjj24ekf3223jesdkhefsfhk324wuefhw38fhrypofhtr34d342132d34jsd01 ?

And also do I just paste the code into Text edit or Microsoft Word? and then just save the file as ".rb"?

Paste it inside a text editor like Notepad because Microsoft Word and other word processors will mess up the code by adding formatting to it.

All you have to do is change the private key on this line:

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privatekey = "0351764dc07ee1ad038ff49c0e020799f0a350dd0769017ea09460e150a64019"

To:

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privatekey = "ef242kfjj24ekf3223jesdkhefsfhk324wuefhw38fhrypofhtr34d342132d34jsd"

Save it as "your_file_name.rb"
jr. member
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Fortunately https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif shows example code how to generate WIF key from HEX private key, i combine required code for convenience.

Code:
require 'digest'

# Checksums use hash256 (where data is hashed twice through sha256)
def hash256(hex)
    binary = [hex].pack("H*")
    hash1 = Digest::SHA256.digest(binary)
    hash2 = Digest::SHA256.digest(hash1)
    result = hash2.unpack("H*")[0]
    return result
end

# Checksums are used when creating addresses
def checksum(hex)
  hash = hash256(hex) # Hash the data through SHA256 twice
  return hash[0...8]  # Return the first 4 bytes (8 characters)
end

def base58_encode(hex)
  @chars = %w[
      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
    A B C D E F G H   J K L M N   P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
    a b c d e f g h i j k   m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
]
  @base = @chars.length

  i = hex.to_i(16)
  buffer = String.new

  while i > 0
    remainder = i % @base
    i = i / @base
    buffer = @chars[remainder] + buffer
  end

  #! Is it just the 00, or does 05 get converted to 3, etc.
  # add '1's to the start based on number of leading bytes of zeros
  leading_zero_bytes = (hex.match(/^([0]+)/) ? $1 : '').size / 2

  ("1"*leading_zero_bytes) + buffer
end

privatekey = "0351764dc07ee1ad038ff49c0e020799f0a350dd0769017ea09460e150a64019"
# "ef" for tesnet
# "80" for mainnet
extended = "ef" + privatekey + "01" #  you can remove 01 to make your wallet generate uncompressed public key
extendedchecksum = extended + checksum(extended)
wif = base58_encode(extendedchecksum)

puts wif

You need to install ruby, save the code on a file and run it with this command

Code:
ruby your_file_name.rb

I've tried it quickly, compare the result with bitaddress and check whether the generated WIF can be imported to Electrum (both testnet and mainnet).




Okay I just installed Ruby but can someone confirm exactly what code I should save in the "ruby your_file_name.rb" document if my private key is: ef242kfjj24ekf3223jesdkhefsfhk324wuefhw38fhrypofhtr34d342132d34jsd01 ?

And also do I just paste the code into Text edit or Microsoft Word? and then just save the file as ".rb"?
jr. member
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You are getting permission denied because you aren't running brew as Administrator, try running the brew install command with sudo.


https://ibb.co/ky31Y7H


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@21XO, I think I asked you in your other thread what kind of address is this private key for, but I never got an answer AFAIK. Are you trying to recover a legacy address, or a segwit address?


legacy address
jr. member
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legendary
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It was already discussed before. He has 66 characters because the last ones are 01 indicating compressed address.
He may convert his private key to WIF and import into any wallet like Electrum using for example this page https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif (and keeping some safety measures, like being offline etc).
The question is if he has his REAL key or encrypted. If it is real, the migration is easy and could be done in 1 minute. If is encrypted he need the program which is able to decrypt it - in this case the old version of blockstack.

So to be clear, according to that link you posted, the "ef" at the beginning is also bytes in the private key, since it's got to be 256-bit (and "01" is not part of the key)? They also have an example where they have a private key beginning with "ef" but has a prefix of "80" indicating mainnet that's put before the private key. I just want to make sure we're not dealing with a testnet private key since "ef" is also the prefix of testnet.

Take a look at comment https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/05btc-1700-to-whoever-helps-me-successfully-extract-my-btc-from-cli-wallet-5306458
If key for testnet starts not with "ef" and used on learnmeabitcoin page generates this same WIF for testnet like in comment I would like to believe that it is just a coincidence and (I hope) OP has a key for real network.
legendary
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It was already discussed before. He has 66 characters because the last ones are 01 indicating compressed address.
He may convert his private key to WIF and import into any wallet like Electrum using for example this page https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif (and keeping some safety measures, like being offline etc).
The question is if he has his REAL key or encrypted. If it is real, the migration is easy and could be done in 1 minute. If is encrypted he need the program which is able to decrypt it - in this case the old version of blockstack.

So to be clear, according to that link you posted, the "ef" at the beginning is also bytes in the private key, since it's got to be 256-bit (and "01" is not part of the key)? They also have an example where they have a private key beginning with "ef" but has a prefix of "80" indicating mainnet that's put before the private key. I just want to make sure we're not dealing with a testnet private key since "ef" is also the prefix of testnet. My bad, testnet prefix is actually fe and somehow I thought it was ef.
legendary
Activity: 952
Merit: 1385
It was already discussed before. He has 66 characters because the last ones are 01 indicating compressed address.
He may convert his private key to WIF and import into any wallet like Electrum using for example this page https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif (and keeping some safety measures, like being offline etc).
The question is if he has his REAL key or encrypted. If it is real, the migration is easy and could be done in 1 minute. If it is encrypted he needs the program which is able to decrypt it - in this case the old version of blockstack.
legendary
Activity: 1568
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It looks to me like you need the openssl libraries.  Normally I would 'sudo apt install libssl-dev' and you should be able to do a similar thing with brew. brew install openssl or brew install [email protected].

Try this:

brew install [email protected]
cp /usr/local/opt/[email protected]/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

Hopefully that will help move things along.

bitcoinforktech is correct, you are missing the OpenSSL library on Mac which is why the pip installation fails with "cannot find " (last image). You need to use brew to install it.

If you don't currently have brew, you can install it using:

Code:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"


Are you sure you can/cannot convert the key to WIF or somesuch and import it?

He said his private key is 66 characters long and begins with ef, while bitcoin private keys are supposed to be 64 hex characters long. It is already out of range of a valid private key:


You are getting permission denied because you aren't running brew as Administrator, try running the brew install command with sudo.


@21XO, I think I asked you in your other thread what kind of address is this private key for, but I never got an answer AFAIK. Are you trying to recover a legacy address, or a segwit address?
jr. member
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try this download the cli blockstack 0.18.0.10/
instructions for installing a tar.gz file.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rmm9Qq-SdNnAQHieCQjT-EwJbpQNW3-0/view?usp=sharing
jr. member
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https://ibb.co/xfV3BBR
Code:
Are you sure you can/cannot convert the key to WIF or somesuch and import it?

Maybe I can, I'm just not very technical.

I also have Parallels, so maybe I can also try installing on Windows or Ubuntu.

It looks like the key as you have described can't easily be exported as a WIF.

I would try Ubuntu rather than Windows for this, if you need to use Parallels.  Windows is a huge pain.

We should be able to do this on Mac with brew.  Fingers crossed those compile issues will get fixed.
jr. member
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Please try

sudo cp /usr/local/opt/[email protected]/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

jr. member
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https://ibb.co/xfV3BBR


Code:
Are you sure you can/cannot convert the key to WIF or somesuch and import it?

Maybe I can, I'm just not very technical.



I also have Parallels, so maybe I can also try installing on Windows or Ubuntu.
jr. member
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My real private key starts with ef and ends in 01.

Code:
python2.7 -m pip install onedrivesdk==1.1.8
https://ibb.co/7gcd0ps

Code:
python2.7 -m pip install blockstack==0.18.0.10
https://ibb.co/Jj0LvnY
https://ibb.co/gzmf2KG
https://ibb.co/8s6mg5S



Thanks guys for all the help.


It looks to me like you need the openssl libraries.  Normally I would 'sudo apt install libssl-dev' and you should be able to do a similar thing with brew. brew install openssl or brew install [email protected].

Try this:

brew install [email protected]
cp /usr/local/opt/[email protected]/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

Hopefully that will help move things along.

Are you sure you can/cannot convert the key to WIF or somesuch and import it?
sr. member
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