did it give you a master public key?
yeah, it did. but didnt generate any keys that i have. can you send it to me, let me see if i can see any balances
ok, did you set the gap limit enough though?
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can you send it to me, let me see if i can see any balances
ok, did you set the gap limit enough though?
did it give you a master public key?
yeah, it did. but didnt generate any keys that i have. can you send it to me, let me see if i can see any balances
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did it give you a master public key?
yeah, it did. but didnt generate any keys that i have. can you send it to me, let me see if i can see any balances
did it give you a master public key?
yeah, it did. but didnt generate any keys that i have. legendary
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did it give you a master public key?
Do you have any older backups of your wallet file?
Yeah i have one thats giving me the same error. this wasnt my cold storage, so i basically only used it to buy like, pizza and candy. (but 1.7btc worth of pizza is still quite a bit...) If the seed is right my utility should recover your addresses and keys.
alright, ill give it a try. let us know; it will be interesting. i remember someone else saying their wallet
had a blank seed so hopefully this will tell us if the seed is wrong or just
an issue with electrum client.
Alright, the seed is wrong. Either it gave me the wrong seed or i wrote it down incorrectly, but it asked me to verify it at the creation, so i think it might be something weird with electrum?
I'm going to try the bruteforcing tool lol
btw if this works ill buy everyone who posted here before this post a candy or pizza
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Do you have any older backups of your wallet file?
Yeah i have one thats giving me the same error. this wasnt my cold storage, so i basically only used it to buy like, pizza and candy. (but 1.7btc worth of pizza is still quite a bit...) If the seed is right my utility should recover your addresses and keys.
alright, ill give it a try. let us know; it will be interesting. i remember someone else saying their wallet
had a blank seed so hopefully this will tell us if the seed is wrong or just
an issue with electrum client.
Also, if you trust me, PM me the master public key only... (not the private key!)
from the output of the program...and I will set up a watch only wallet to see if i can see any bitcoins.
Do you have any older backups of your wallet file?
Yeah i have one thats giving me the same error. this wasnt my cold storage, so i basically only used it to buy like, pizza and candy. (but 1.7btc worth of pizza is still quite a bit...) If the seed is right my utility should recover your addresses and keys.
alright, ill give it a try. 
Do you have any older backups of your wallet file?
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If the seed is right my utility should recover your addresses and keys.
I could try to bruteforce the password, however, im still kind of confused about that.
I am as sure as I could be I am using the correct password, I keep decent track of these things and write them down physically. The last transactin I made before I was unable to access it was only a week before, so I dont think i could have somehow changed it in a week.
What I have been doing to try to use my wallet again is to show the seed from the client, or send the bitcoin to my phone wallet. Trying any password besides my own displays the incorrect password notice - but typing in the password (that I am as sure as I could be is the correct password) shows me the seed as being 0 characters long, and when trying to send bitcoin - an error. Since these dont happen with any other password I have tried, I'm fairly sure that it IS the right password but something weird is going on.
As for the seed, it's been written down and printed out and stored in my home, lol.
Also, i want to say that I appreciate all of your guys help! You are all very nice and the best
I am as sure as I could be I am using the correct password, I keep decent track of these things and write them down physically. The last transactin I made before I was unable to access it was only a week before, so I dont think i could have somehow changed it in a week.
What I have been doing to try to use my wallet again is to show the seed from the client, or send the bitcoin to my phone wallet. Trying any password besides my own displays the incorrect password notice - but typing in the password (that I am as sure as I could be is the correct password) shows me the seed as being 0 characters long, and when trying to send bitcoin - an error. Since these dont happen with any other password I have tried, I'm fairly sure that it IS the right password but something weird is going on.
As for the seed, it's been written down and printed out and stored in my home, lol.
Also, i want to say that I appreciate all of your guys help! You are all very nice and the best
I've blurred out the hex string, even though it just converts to garbage characters- in case there is a way that it could be used to derive the actual seed.
That would seem to indicate that you either no longer have the correct password for the wallet file, or that multiple bytes in the wallet file have changed. Between these two options, the former seems more likely....
If only a single byte were corrupted, then at least the PKCS7 padding would be valid or the count of valid hex-encoded digits would be 16 or greater (because at least one of the three 16-byte AES blocks would still be decrypted successfully).
I can think of three things you might want to try:
1. Have you tried to run jonald_fyookball's (excellent) tool yet with a higher numberofreceivingaddresses and numberofchangeaddresses to see if any of the generated addresses are yours (if any of them exist on the block chain)?
2. Attempt to brute-force your wallet password with either an open source bitcoin password recovery tool or using one of the paid services in the Services section of the forum.
3. Attempt to brute-force your mnemonic on the assumption that one of the words is wrong or swapped with an adjacent word (although I'm not aware of any tools or services that exists to do this).
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can you verify that all words are in the electrum dictionary and spelled right?
not sure if this will be helpful.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/electrum-seed-recovery-stand-alone-python-script-612143
make use to set the gap limit high enough and check your addresses.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/electrum-seed-recovery-stand-alone-python-script-612143
make use to set the gap limit high enough and check your addresses.
for some reason, the seed i have written down is not the one for my wallet as it generates an empty one. not really sure why. I think an error of some sort cause it to show the wrong seed for the wallet and I did not realize until it was too late, perhaps?
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not sure if this will be helpful.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/electrum-seed-recovery-stand-alone-python-script-612143
make use to set the gap limit high enough and check your addresses.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/electrum-seed-recovery-stand-alone-python-script-612143
make use to set the gap limit high enough and check your addresses.
I actually was able to (with help from a friend) get the code to work after you updated it, and my password did not work.
What are all of the error messages it produces?however my password seems to show the seed on electrum now, but just with 0 words..
I've no idea why that is....I've blurred out the hex string, even though it just converts to garbage characters- in case there is a way that it could be used to derive the actual seed.
I actually was able to (with help from a friend) get the code to work after you updated it, and my password did not work.
What are all of the error messages it produces?however my password seems to show the seed on electrum now, but just with 0 words..
I've no idea why that is.... This is a tool that might (emphasis on might) give a more detailed error message on why your password isn't working. It simply displays your Electrum seed if the password is correct, and if not it prints one or more error messages.
If you choose to run it, post the results back here and I'll let you know what I think (it's a Python script which I wrote).
(Obviously, if it reports back any actual seed information, don't post it!)
If you choose to run it, post the results back here and I'll let you know what I think (it's a Python script which I wrote).
(Obviously, if it reports back any actual seed information, don't post it!)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Downloads\decrypt_electrum_seed-master\decrypt_electrum_seed-master\decrypt_electrum_seed.py", line 217, in
seed_str, mnemonic_str = decrypt_electrum_seed(wallet_file, get_password)
File "D:\Downloads\decrypt_electrum_seed-master\decrypt_electrum_seed-master\decrypt_electrum_seed.py", line 121, in decrypt_electrum_seed
if unicodedata.normalize('NFC', password) != unicodedata.normalize('NFD', password):
TypeError: must be unicode, not str
Sorry about that; there was a bug related to ASCII/Unicode conversion, now fixed. Could you download a new copy and try it again?
This is a tool that might (emphasis on might) give a more detailed error message on why your password isn't working. It simply displays your Electrum seed if the password is correct, and if not it prints one or more error messages.
If you choose to run it, post the results back here and I'll let you know what I think (it's a Python script which I wrote).
(Obviously, if it reports back any actual seed information, don't post it!)
If you choose to run it, post the results back here and I'll let you know what I think (it's a Python script which I wrote).
(Obviously, if it reports back any actual seed information, don't post it!)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Downloads\decrypt_electrum_seed-master\decrypt_electrum_seed-master\decrypt_electrum_seed.py", line 217, in
seed_str, mnemonic_str = decrypt_electrum_seed(wallet_file, get_password)
File "D:\Downloads\decrypt_electrum_seed-master\decrypt_electrum_seed-master\decrypt_electrum_seed.py", line 121, in decrypt_electrum_seed
if unicodedata.normalize('NFC', password) != unicodedata.normalize('NFD', password):
TypeError: must be unicode, not str
Sorry about that; there was a bug related to ASCII/Unicode conversion, now fixed. Could you download a new copy and try it again?
Is this in-development version of electrum from github? FYI github master is used for development.
nope, its the 1.9.8 release from the site non testing Jump to: