Topic: REWARD 1 BTC! Electrum wallet help me! (Read 583 times)

I have gone through the whole thread and it took a lot of my time. Thanks to you man for catching the lies of the @OP because otherwise many of the forum members would give their precious time to answer the @OP for helping him out in fixing of that wallet. I have seen many similar posts which were basically created by similar people like @OP to waste the previous time of the members and I think we all should at least be more alert next time because if these type of users continue posting such made up stories and we all give our time to such posts then they would take it for granted. I recommend everyone to avoid such posts when you smell something fishy because we won't be able to help people with such mentality. They will continue to lie like that and will made many more different stories to get our attention and in end they will log out from the account and create another account to post something similar by changing the theme of the story.

Oh yeah, now I see it: the situation is in fact completely different from what the OP described in his initial post. He claimed he was trying to migrate this wallet from his old laptop. I agree that op is wasting everyone's time by posting clickbait headings and lying regarding the way he acquired the coins. 

@serveria.com Did you read any of the latest replies? the OP bought a fake wallet, there are no coins in there. Never were, never will be.
As with many of these I can't get to my coins posts it's people who thought they could get rich quick because they thought they could get coins out of thin air.

-Dave

Perhaps you could try uninstalling the latest version of Electrum and install an older version instead? You mentioned the "old laptop"? Do you still have access to it? Or perhaps you can remember the version of Electrum you used on your old laptop?

Why not? You should

I called it 3 days ago.
My Report to move the topic out of the tech board has been unhandled for 2 days.
Update: it's marked as Bad now. I guess the trolling can continue.

That's a good point.  I'll make sure to follow this advice in the future.  Offering a generous "reward" should have tipped me off as well.

What's amazing is that people actually pay for these wallets. What are they thinking?  Obviously they know nothing about bitcoin, and yet they think they're going to get rich by hacking some wallet that's available to everyone.  Don't they stop to think that maybe the bitcoin experts would have beaten them to the punch if this were remotely possible?

Yup.
But think of how much of everyone's time the OP has now managed to take up.
Because wait for it, none of you bothered to google the address.
For 1FpqQnKQCgDkJFMC94JL8FpRyHTZ3uRVZ1 a quick google gets you
https://www.coursehero.com/file/110545615/Bitcoin-Etherium-private-keys-with-balance-2020txt/
If you toggle reader mode in firefox you can see that address.

As for the 1JtpgqCf3SSeCeYWEDJjkfYFH7Ruhy4Vp1
YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO LEAVE THIS FORUM: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=405169.0;all

Can we all stop wasting our time with these people.

When people are asking for help.
Step 1 google the addresses given to see how many times they have been passed around.

-Dave

Look dude, I don't want to call you a liar, but there're some significant contradictions in your story.  Either you totally flubbed your wallet file and your seed phrase (one or the other okay, but both?) or you forgot some extension word (unlikely since you're seeing transactions in the wallet without an extension) or, the most likely answer; you purchased/found/downloaded this file that was purposefully corrupted to make it look like it has some bitcoin in it.

If you have a private key that restores an address other than one you want restored, then you don't have the right private key.  It's that simple.  Going around in circles asking the same question worded differently won't change that fact.  You're not the first person here insisting he's had an obviously butchered file since it's creation.  

A private key which starts with "K" is already at a derivation path. It was reached by deriving to the specified path and then calculating the wallet import format key at that path. You cannot use that key in isolation to derive further child keys.

Only if you have either a seed phrase, or a master private key or extended private key beginning with xprv, can you then start deriving child keys and derive the key at m/0/58.

i did that, BUT it's wrong because my output paths don't match, neither does the private key to the address. I have to create a wallet with a withdrawal path suitable for a private wallet, because initially electrum creates it differently, I need m/0/58

If you have a private key then you can create a new wallet and import it through the process.  Open Electrum, then on the top menu bar click "File>New/Restore."  On the window that pops up, name your wallet, then click Next.  On the next page select "Import Bitcoin address or private key."  Enter your private key on the next page, click next and follow the prompts to complete the process.

If you already have a wallet that was generated using this method, you can add another private key with these stips: On the top menu bar, click on "Wallet>Private Keys>Import" then enter your private key in the popup window.  

I found entries in the form of a wallet address, a private key and an output path like m/0/58, how can I restore my address with a balance with these data? My private key is from address p2pkh: and starts with letter K

Here's the steps on how to reproduce OP's "issue":

• 1. Create a new wallet or restore an empty wallet (pref. Standard), don't set a password; then close Electrum.
• 2. Go to Electrum's data directory (location) and open 'wallets' folder.
• 3. Open the newly created wallet file as text and under the line "receiving": [ ;
  add these lines: "1JtpgqCf3SSeCeYWEDJjkfYFH7Ruhy4Vp1", and "1FpqQnKQCgDkJFMC94JL8FpRyHTZ3uRVZ1",
  The format should look exactly as the other addresses or the wallet wont be parsed correctly (there's more but I only selected two), then save the changes.
• 4. Open the edited wallet with Electrum and it will show errors, click "Show report contents" on the bug report window and you'll see the error in OP's screenshot. (don't send it as Bug report)
• 5. The wallet will sync just fine and will show the edited-in address' balance.
• 6. Try to send Bitcoins and it'll return with the same error: "Script failed an OP_EQUALVERIFY operation".

Restore the seed phrase and it will not restore the addresses that are edited-in (obviously), it will only restore the keys related to the seed phrase.

If you're seeing some of the transactions, then you are likely on the right path here.  It could be that you're only seeing some of the addresses that have transactions because when you restore an Electrum wallet from seed you'll only see the first 25 addresses in the wallet.  To see the other addresses you'll need to increase your gap limit.  That might help.

Open your console and use this code to see 100 addresses.  Change the "100" to whatever number you want to increase the number of addresses visible.

Other than that, I think LoyceV is right, and you could have had an extra word or seed extension that you may have forgotten about.

those labels are available in the imported xpub also... they hold no balance at all


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the OP replied between messages then deleted it.
No sanction for double post please 

nope, what you posted in the screenshot wont help you.
some are private keys but for addresses that are generated by this extended public key.
how many lines you have inside labels object? 159?

you need to find keystore string or other private keys like the ones you posted

I did as you asked and I see a lot of private keys, labels in the labels section, I tried to save just private keys and import them for recovery, but it only restores those addresses from the seed
https://ibb.co/NZWwD5m

Its not at a specific line just search in notepad (ctrl + f) the word "keystore" without quotes
Or look manually through the file to find if it contains any extra private key in the form

L2swqzRoGrinNgTt9nzf28UUgmTtZgtpfREDACTEDREDACTEDREDA or 5K6eoShWWsgptas3XYGL34xcj66Bn1tREDACTEDREDACTEDREDA

explain step by step where I should click and where exactly to look for it, how does it look at all? Open wallet dat with notepad and which line to look for (send a screenshot of the example), my wallet dat file was really created a long time ago

I tried to reproduce it with that method: Create a wallet in v1.9.5, import some private keys with transactions, then load the wallet to the latest version.
The result is: it loaded without error but the imported private keys aren't included (to the GUI) but no errors.

Here's the thing,
When I created a new wallet in the latest version, edited the wallet file by adding a funded unrelated address (Puzzle number 79) under "receiving" and "addr_history",
It loaded with the same error as OP and resulted with the same error when tried to broadcast a signed transaction  

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Update regarding imported private keys to an HD wallet which is possible before v2.0:
When opening the wallet file as text, the addresses and keys should be under the line: "imported_keys": {

Not sure if electrum ever allowed this kind of mix (HD and privkey) in the same wallet but if that did happen it was a very long time ago.
if thats the case which i highly doubt, just open the wallet with errors (in notepad) and search for this "keystore"
you will find your private keys there, if you cant find that string you can mark it as 120% fake wallet

I compared the addresses displayed in images shared by OP and there are a few same addresses.

In very old versions of electrum, it was possible to import a private key into an existing HD wallet.
Maybe, the wallet file has been created using a very old version of electrum and contains imported private keys and the issue is because the imported private keys are not backed up by the seed phrase.
What do you think? Is that possible?

Of course, I still believe that OP has purchased the wallet file.

If newly generated addresses aren't related?
That's unreproducible, means that whatever the corruption did to generate unrelated addresses, it can't be recreated.
Maybe scrambling a few brutefore~able bits here and there but since corruption is mostly random, it'll be hard.

But take note that in P2PKH, there's a 1 out of 2^160 chance for an existing address to be generated by whatever corrupted your wallet.
But I know Electrum is dealing with addresses string so it's lower, in any case,
it's impossible to happen.

we dont need to see all addresses, you sorted them based on TX count and the highest TX count is up, but that's not relevant. it could contain even 100.000 BTC


what i'm trying to say here it's that this wallet you are trying to recover is forged 100%
no address with balance was found based on the public key (searched for more than 50.000, impossible for normal user to generate that)
the addresses displayed in electrum are in fact old addresses created with Bitcoin Core long before electrum was available (this fact alone is sufficient for me to mark it as FAKE).

But believe me.. no one can help you recover it because it's not a genuine wallet that's the big problem here.

What are our next steps to resolve these errors?

So it's the latter: means that the master public key may be intact but the master private key doesn't match the addresses in the wallet file.
In cases like this restoring the seed phrase is the usual solution, but
since the xpub only restores the old transactions, I'm thinking that the newly generated addresses which are the funded ones are somewhat unrelated to your wallet.

However, upon checking the other screenshot, it appears that there are very old funded addresses sneaked into the wallet file which aren't related to the master key.
The interesting part is, if you enable "LabelSync" plug-in (Tools->Plugins->LabelSync (restart)) there'll be lots of notes on each transaction containing private keys and "I am satoshi" and "JeffreyLee" notes.

You're satoshi, right?
No seriously, I find it difficult for a regular user to add his addresses' private keys as transaction labels.

do you see all the addresses in the screenshot? I have 104 addresses, can you solve my problem? Then I'll wait for someone to help me, we have an empty conversation? I have more than 1 bitcoin, I left such a large reward due to the fact that I am in a hopeless situation

i really dont think you have any funds in that wallet.
the errors you are having with wallet_1.dat is because the wallet itself was modified by somebody and included those old addresses with funds (only addresses not the private keys).
also from your screenshots you have a balance of ~ 0.1 BTC in that modified wallet and you are offering 1BTC for 0.1 ?? something is not adding up.

I described all the errors that I have. I have more than one file on hand, I have also repeatedly said that xprv, xpub and seed give me something other than the wallet_1.dat file with errors. Perhaps an older version of electrum will help me?
I don't understand what you mean, am I able to restore the file from what I have or not?

what i'm saying it's that it is impossible for this to be an authentic electrum wallet because in your screenshot you have addresses  "derived from the extended public key" from 2010.
In that year electrum with it's extended pubkeys was not released and bitcoin core didnt have this functionality.

somebody correct me if im wrong

I don't remember what I did in 2011, maybe yes, I also mined in 2011-2013, but it doesn't matter. All that I have on hand now is wallet_1.dat, daemon, config, recent_servers, blockchain_headers, these files were in the folder that I extracted from electrum on an old laptop and transferred
this whole folder is called electrum_data

@LoyceV i just thought that you misread his message, thats all  
@m1kmrt it doesnt really matter if you are a newbie or veteran here, but based on everyone experience lot's of new people come here to ask for help for fake wallets (which they bought) .

but whats really strange is that you posted a screenshot with this address in your wallet 1FpqQnKQCgDkJFMC94JL8FpRyHTZ3uRVZ1 but is not derived from that xpub (tried over 50 derivation paths with like 1000 addresses)
Also that address has a long long history (back in july 2011) and from what i saw electrum was released in november 2011

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also your second address ( 1JtpgqCf3SSeCeYWEDJjkfYFH7Ruhy4Vp1 ) dates back to december of 2010, really weird

Did you transfer your funds from bitcoin core to electrum?

i meant that i used it in 2019 on an old laptop, after that i transferred it to another wallet along with other files (just transferred the folder) and it did not give these errors even in 2022, in 2023 i bought another laptop and transferred the folder from files on a new laptop, as I did in 2019, installed electrum and go to the wallet and it gave these errors. On an old laptop, I deleted everything and sold it a few months ago. Yes, I am sure that I was not hacked, because the last laptop was completely removed and no one knew about the existence of electrum, no one could steal my bitcoins. I'm telling you, when you open wallet dat, it gives these errors that are in the screenshots, connected to the Internet, addresses and bylans are also my old ones

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that I'm newbie does it matter? I turned to the forum because I did not find a solution to my problem on the Internet, what would you do in my place? Are we here to argue or try to solve the problem? I am even ready to reward the person who helps me because I am in a hopeless situation

you said that the last time you used the wallet was maybe in 2019
but you have outgoing transactions in 2020 / 2021 and 2022
and indeed this wallet is empty.
are you sure this is the correct wallet and that you weren't hacked during this time?

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DO NOT EDIT THE WALLET NO MATTER WHAT!!!
do you still have the original one on the old laptop?

@LoyceV he said that he didn't buy the wallet

can I somehow manually delete those line lines that give errors? Are there other ways to recover? If opening a file with notepad helps me somehow, then let's do it together step by step

So you bought a scam-wallet with additional files. You're wasting everyone's time.

That's such a weird and oddly specific thing to say for a Newbie with a problem

Initially, since the creation of my electrum wallet, I used only the wallet.dat file when opening electrum, I never opened my wallet on an old laptop using a seed or a private key, after transferring my electrum folder with blockchain headers files. wallet.dat and others that I described earlier on a new computer, it began to give these errors, yes, I called my wallet like that, yesterday I tried to restore it again as they wrote here using btc core and it just can’t be read, I never used this file in other wallets, I only used it in electrum. I can rename it whatever I want.

thats weird indeed
something is wrong with your electrum wallet for sure.
can you share an address with a balance?
if you right click on your wallet (electrum one) and select open with "Notepad" do you see that address there

also from where do you have wallet.dat? i have read the full topic but didnt understood what that file has to do with your electrum wallet file which doesnt contain the extension .dat
did you name your wallet "wallet.dat" when you have created it in electrum?

I did what you asked for and the wallet opened the same as after the restoration of the seed, why do I see the same thing in the restoration of xpub, seed and xprv? And when opening wallet dat with these errors, it’s different, in wallet dat I have 104 addresses, and in seed and xprv xpub I see 82 addresses and no balance, with old transactions, the last time on an old laptop that has already been sold, I used the wallet in 2017-2019 and it never gave me these errors. To be honest, I already agree to anything just to restore access to my wallet, maybe opening wallet dat with notepad will help me somehow? The wallet dat file itself is also large in size.

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https://ibb.co/LSq2vnB
https://ibb.co/CzQzBkB

if the wallet is not password protected just open it with notepad
or use this command to display the xprv in console
getmasterprivate()

WARNING!! do not share your xprv with nobody

please tell me which command through the console will allow me to extract xprv

you can also try to import the xprv key directly
just copy the xprv key
in electrum chose File -> New / Restore
Select standard wallet
After that select "Use a master key"
Paste your xprv key in there and thats all
it should work without any problem

yes i have this error
 I open wallet dat and immediately gives errors

"electrum\gui\qt\main_window.py", line 507 , in load_wallet
   File "electrum\util.py", line 469, in do_profile
   File "electrum\wallet.py", line 3324, in try_detecting_internal_addresses_corruption
   File "electrum\wallet.py", line 3329, in check_address_for_corruption

but when restoring via xpub and xpriv, I see the same wallet as from the restore seed balance 0 and a small part of my wallets with old transactions, all my wallets start from 1

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no, it's really that big, can this file help me somehow? As far as you all know, I would not have these files if I just bought a normal corrupted one date wallet file, I'm trying to restore access to my wallet, as I wrote earlier, all my addresses that I see in the file give an error with a balance starting with 1 and these are indeed my addresses.

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https://ibb.co/F0Wzhq9

The error message is cut-off, there should be a final message saying the actual issue like "electrum.bitcoin.InvalidChecksum: calculated..."
What does it say?

But it usually happens when your master public key is invalid or other corruption-related issue.
How old is the wallet exactly?

This doesn't normally happen since a corruption usually renders the master private key invalid which will result with a different error when sending transactions.
Since it passed and proceeded to sign the transaction with the wrong key, the master private key is valid but it's not related to the txn's input.

For the record, you're the second one to report this in bitcointalk and with the exact same "wallet.dat" wallet file name.
Since you insist that it's not bought or tampered, it may be a new attack to edit wallet file contents to the attacker's addresses or scheme of fake Electrum wallets, or just a "lucky" corruption which resulted with a valid master private key.
IDK.

Are you sure you don't mean megabytes?

Where did you get those private keys?

Are those transactions coming from the addresses you thought had funds? If so, your wallet if empty. If not, you have the wrong seed phrase or you may have to "Extend this seed with custom words" to get to your other wallet.

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It helps if you write a clear overview. It's hard to read if you throw everything in one very long sentence.

first of all note down the address(es) with balance
then you can go to this website https://iancoleman.io/bip39/  and save the page locally (after that disconnect internet access)
open your original electrum wallet file with notepad and copy the xpub from keystore.
Open the saved page on your computer and enter your xpub value in the BIP32 Root Key field.
After that click on BIP32 tab and see if your address is in the list.
From here you can generate more addresses on the same derivation path or change the derivation path until you find the address you are looking for.
After you find the correct settings you can replace the xpub value in the BIP32 Root Key field with the xprv key from electrum wallet file and it will generate the coresponding private keys which you can import in your preferred wallet (bitcoin core / electrum)

OK. As I said, your wallet file is probably corrupted and that's why you get that error when trying to make a tranasction.

It's possible that the xpub and xprv you have in your wallet file are wrong and your addresses can't be derived from them.
Don't you get the following error when you open the wallet?

To ensure greater transparency, it would be a good idea to share with us one of your bitcoin addresses or to share it with a trusted member if you care about your privacy. And I do not think that there is a problem in telling us about the total amount in the wallet that you would like to recover.
Nor do I advise you to accept support in private. There are many scammers out there who will try to make you believe that there is a solution in exchange for sensitive information about your wallet.

It is a little bit strange how you can't recover your btc using the PK of the address containing funds.
I'm not a technical expert but I thought this suggestion might help you find a solution. Have you thought about using the file with an older version of Electrum? Or use the same old version on the same laptop that you found. In this case, it is not important that the wallet connects to the Internet. All we want is that you can be able to sign a transaction that includes the entire amount on the wallet to a new address. Broadcasting the transaction can be done using a new Electrum wallet connected to the Internet on another device.

Okay assuming the original wallet was regenerated using Electrum and you have the correct seed. Before we more move forward:

- Can you drop a btc address that has balance. I would like to see if see which type it starts. btc1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 3xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Step by step, okay.

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PS: You can have a at-least minimal trust on me. I have a campaign management service and weekly I am paying around $10k to $15k to many of the campaigners who work with me. So you don't need to worry about your balance to be stolen, I will not ask for sensitive information like show me seed and things LOL

no, I said I have an electrum wallet, I tried recovery using bitcoin core and bitcoin cash (all these wallets give an error that this wallet belongs to electrum), bitcoin core simply cannot read it, this wallet has always belonged to me. Does Electrum create a default wallet according to the standard? I just renamed it. After all, I said that I have not only a wallet dat file, I also have files that I wrote about at the beginning

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i tried it now in the wallet where my balance is 0 as you asked, in this wallet my addresses are not visible with the balance that i see in the date wallet, it has a balance of 0 and only some old transactions are visible, transactions of those addresses that i see in this wallet this is just a small part of my addresses that are in the date wallet, there are no addresses with a balance in this wallet, i also tried this in the date wallet and it gave me the same balance as it was before (not equal to 0) but I can’t withdraw either because of errors, electrum has resynchronized >>> wallet.change_gap_limit(100)
True
can a blockchain header file help me? it is very large in volume, but I don’t even know its purpose

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I am not going to deceive anyone here, if you do not know the way to solve my problem, then there is no need to worry. I can provide any information and perform any action with the wallet that is required of me to regain access to my funds and reward the one who helps me, thank you

As you can see old transactions, you are in the correct wallet and derivation path

Try this code in the console.


See if the balance shows up. Try this in the wallet where you see old transactions

Wallet.dat?
Wallet.dat files are for bitcoin core, not electrum.


The error says that you are signing your transaction with a wrong private key.
You have purchased the wallet file. Am I right? If so, the seller gave you a corrupted wallet file and you have been scammed.


Someone created a similar topic reporting the same error when trying to make a transaction.
[HELP] Electrum script failed


There are two scenarios:
1. You have been scammed.
2. You created this topic to sell your corrupted wallet file and scam others.

nothing changes, if I try these paths, then my balance is 0 and in general I see all these addresses for the first time, they have 0 transactions. If I restore the wallet without a choice just using seed, then only a small part of my addresses with 0 balance and very old transactions are restored, I also tried m / 0/2 as I wrote above and also did not work. Yes, I have a seed and I try everything with it, because I see the seed with the help of wallet.dat which gives a transaction error, but I also see private keys with it and all my transactions, I wrote about this abovemy problem is that using wallet dat i can't send transactions due to errors, even when opening electrum it gives errors like i wrote above

To do so you need to restore using the seed phrase. You said you have the seed.

Create a new wallet, select I have the seed, and then try all paths.

Did you create the seed (originally) using electrum? If so, do not  check bip39 seed

Guide heere

https://bitcoinelectrum.com/restoring-your-standard-wallet-from-seed/

when i go to electrum wallet settings information seed aviable true (standart) keystore type bip32 derivation path m BIP32 root fingerprint d045d4d9 script type p2pkh and when i click on any address from those that have a balance, for example one of them shows the output path m /0/2 and I have a private key from this wallet, but when it is normally imported, it gives me a balance of 0 and the wrong address, what should I do with this, help me in more detail, unfortunately I can’t send screenshots on this forum

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where should I click so that I get a selection menu like in your screenshot? all my addresses start with 1 and their private keys are L or K

First, do not accept any kind of help in private. There are a lot of scammers here, and you should have only public discussions.

It looks like you have the private key, but your balance shows zero.

Do you remember which were the first characters of your addresses with balance? I believe you are having a problem with the derivation path.

You should try derivation path for all 3 main address formats

Create 3 new wallets, one for each of these derivation  path and see if it works

Hello, I am ready to reward someone who helps me with an electrum wallet. In general, I found my file on an old laptop with an electrum folder, I have several files and one of them is my wallet.dat 24kb in size, it has a lot of addresses with my balance, but more on that later, I have blockchain_headers files with a size of 46 kilobytes. config 1 kb, daemon and recent servers. My mistake is that on the old laptop everything worked fine by opening wallet dat and displaying my bitcoins, but in the latest version when opening wallet.dat it gives errors when opening File
"electrum\gui\qt\main_window.py", line 507 , in load_wallet
   File "electrum\util.py", line 469, in do_profile
   File "electrum\wallet.py", line 3324, in try_detecting_internal_addresses_corruption
   File "electrum\wallet.py", line 3329, in check_address_for_corruption

and when sending a transaction:
the error Script failed an OP_EQUALVERIFY operation

and I can’t withdraw bitcoins at all, I tried restoring via private keys, but generally gives out other addresses with a balance of 0, I tried to restore using a seed phrase but gives me wallets without a balance and with old ones transactions, that is, the balance is 0, and when I enter wallet dat and with these errors, electrum shows my old normal balance, but I can’t withdraw bitcoins because of these errors, the Internet connection is stable, can I somehow restore my wallet by deciding those line errors (removing those errors with python) ? Will additional files to the wallet blockchain headers help me or others that I have? If someone helps me, I'm ready to reward him!
additional contact with me telegram @m1kmrt and my mail [email protected] you can write me in private messages and here on the forum!