Topic: Bitcoin Core (Read 2958 times)

Follow the second part of my post:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14850162
Basically, if you are sure that this is the correct private key, and that this is the only transaction you've ever made, you should be able to import it into electrum... But it would be best if you re-read the rest of the post i made to, so you know all the caveats.

Hello !
Few days are gone and i read the Posts evrytime evrytime and start Bitcoincore.
So, what can i do ? I see option change Passphrase . I remember Pass wrote it down and changed the passphrase. After that i go to console a type the code to recive the privat key.

Year ! Now i have the Privat key !

And what i do now ?

I'd be carefull when contacting experts tough... I've seen a couple of scam accusations against "wallet crackers". Always realise that when you send your encrypted wallet.dat AND give such a cracker tips about what your password might have been, he'll have full controll over all your funds if he succeeds in cracking your password!!! This means that he can say he wasn't able to crack your wallet, and steal all your funds a couple weeks later, claiming somebody else must have done it.

I'd personally try to crack the wallet.dat myself... There are a couple of tools out there to do this. A quick google resulted in this one: https://github.com/glv2/bruteforce-wallet
If you create a dictionary using a scripting language, substituting letters in your common passwords, it should be doable.

IF you send your wallet.dat plus tips about the password to somebody, please make sure they have at least green (positive) trust, using an escrow is not good enough (the cracker can put enough funds in escrow to cover the funds in your wallet, crack the password, claim it didn't work, ask his money back from the escrow, and run with your funds as soon as the escrow refunds him)

Please, write everything that you remember about your password on a piece of paper. This may help you hack your password.

If you make a small mistake in your password, it is possible to "hack", try various  passwords. For example you remember abc000 but not know the numbers.
A hack program can try all possible numbers, abc123 .... abc456 ...

When wallet password is forgotten, wallet without password can be still on your computer. Contact expert about this recovery method.

im beggining to think these coins are lost forever

So, to recap the problem up untill now:
- you have installed bitcoin core's QT wallet, but didn't wait for it to sync. you encrypted the wallet with a password
- you bought coins on coinimal and withdrew them to your unsynced QT wallet. you don't want to wait untill the syncing finishes.
- you forgot the password in the first step. (which is really problematic, it's worse than the fact you cannot wait untill the syncing finishes i'm afraid)

Everything else seems like a moot point, since i can only conclude you never managed to export the private key... So the "imports" you did into electrum were your public keys instead of your private keys, generating "watch only" wallets in electrum. These wallets are usefull to keep track of your spendings, but they cannot be used to create transactions (send coins).

Back to basics, forget about electrum, focus on your QT wallet (you did make that backup i suggested in my first post, right???). Can you answer the following questions:
- are you 100% absolutely sure you encrypted your wallet? If it's not locked, refer back to either my post (it included a link on how to export private keys) or go the next post made by knightdk (it contained roughly the same explanation as my link, but it was a little clearer)
- if you are 100% sure you encrypted your wallet, do you have any idear about the password? If you do have an idear about what you might have used, there are ways of brute-forcing... This can only be done if you more or less know which passwords you could have used, but you made a typo, used a capital, added 1 or 2 letters...

unfortunately, no. you'll have to get the password somehow (I don't know how).

the problem is i forgot my password. Have i chance to use my Bitcoins ?

knightdk already posted the guide before here -> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14852246

• open your wallet
• go to Help > Debug Window
• go to Console tab
• skip this step if you don't have a password.
  type walletpassphrase password 120 (replace password with your own password.
• type dumpprivkey 17qKqrRSnWuX4YgTqczs7xPmpYKuUsGgGJ

I need help to find out the Private Keys of my Bitcoin Core Wallet. I tryed it before but not working. I dont understand how it works right.

Please nteach me (with Pictures) how i recive the Private Keys

this bitcoin system is very heavy to understand. I simple want to buy some items with Bitcoins but that its so heavy- i need importend help

ah. that $140~ is from this address, right?

the bitcoins never moved from that address. so that means you didn't sweep the key. which means that you didn't create a standard electrum wallet which actually have seed (that means your wallet should not have a seed in the first place).

if you still have your old bitcoin core wallet (you should). get the private key of that address again and import it to electrum. just in case you misunderstood something, 17qKqrRSnWuX4YgTqczs7xPmpYKuUsGgGJ is not a private key.

P.S. you can't import a watching-only electrum wallet to bitcoin core.

Did you export the private keys from Bitcoin core (as suggested above) and then import those keys into electrum? Or did you create an electrum wallet and then send the coins to an address there?

If you didn't move the coins, then you have the private keys and don't need the seed words.

If you can calm down and be specific and clear about what you have done and are doing it will be easier for people to help.

When i open Electrum and press strg+o there nare 4 Files. I saved it 3 times for testing. But all Only watching only.

What can i do now ? thats 140 Euro that i lose ! I need help !

I try now open Bitcoin Core and try to import Wallet  to it. But is this good ?

Please give me Instruction

okay, I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that you don't know what you're doing.
open electrum and press CTRL+O. if there's more than one file there try opening them all to see if you still have the old wallet file.

did you manage to get your keys from the core wallet?

That means my Bitcoins are not to using. Thy are blockd forever ?ß

Is there a Hacktool or a trick to recive my Bitcoins ?

Please help !

without the seed you're stuck with the watching wallet. that is unless you have the old wallet file lying somewhere or still have the private keys of your previous addresses.

also you can't just open a normal wallet and ends up with a watching-only wallet. watching-only wallet is created when you enter xpub/addresses instead of xpriv/private keys/seed when you create that wallet. I suspect you did just that.

and electrum wallet created by importing private keys doesn't have seed.

1. You should be able to restore the wallet from one of your backups.
2. Did you write down the seed or back it up somewhere? 

Help please !

Now i have the Problem , that i forgot the Seed Phrase of my Wallet and every Time i open Electrum, there is written , it is a watching wallet only.

Thats mean , i can not send my Bitcoins-watching only ! !  ! !
 

Who can help me and teach me how i can revocer my Wallet
Please so soon as possible !

@OP: can you tell us if the procedure worked?
I think knightdk's, vlamer and my own post should have been sufficient to solve your problem, so it might be nice to give some feedback in case somebody else ever searches for this problem... That way they'll know the problem can be fixed with the info given in this thread