Topic: This is not a stake your Bitcoin address here thread,but an interesting reminder (Read 894 times)

I staked my BTC address a few months back and take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year 

My old stake address here.

But since I've been using Segwit address for the last couple of years, I haven't sign it for a long time. But because of the OP's reminder here it is:


Cheers and Happy New Year.

The only thing that comes to mind is that when you sign a message you prove that you hold the private key of that address. So, the scammer cannot say that " the staked address belongs to a wallet which doesn't let me to sign a message. I didn't know this when I staked my address", however I am sure Theymos will not accept such a claim.

it is apples and oranges. each time you sign a message from your key, you are revealing your public key. it is subjected to the same issues that discourages address reuse and the same reason why we use P2PKH, P2WPKH (pay to hash of pubkey) instead of P2PK (pay to pubkey itself). we try not to reveal the public key until the last moment.

that is why i never understand why people sign a message when they want to "stake" their address, although i did the same thing myself.

Signing your address and PGP keys should be something that you routinely perform just like changing your password. I know a lot of us do not change our passwords regular but this is something that you can do together. Every time you change your password you should post a topic in archival and include your signed message with your staked address. This confirms that the person holding the address is the one to change the password.

Passwords are recommended to be changed every 6 months at least which means you would have 2 times a year at least where you can practice signing an address and at the same time verifying that the account is safe and the password has not been changed maliciously.

I have noticed on this thread and the staked address thread that members do not include a specific time and date that they signed the address. Including the exact time could bring problems but at least include the date that the message was signed. This is a good practice and should be performed in the universal time format. The only issue with signing your address regularly which could increase the probability of the private key being maliciously captured so it is vital that you follow the best security practices when signing an address. I would recommend booting up a live cd on a clean hard drive and checking that the network you connect to is owned by you and is secure.

I was happy to remember how to sign the message. I wish everyone happiness and health in the New Year!

Stake my Bitcoin address here

This is the Stake your Bitcoin address here, it was like six months ago, but I'm renewing it here in the spirit of Christmas and New year. 

It's been a long time since I haven't open my wallet again. Thanks and here a fresh new year to come!


Staked bitcoin address.

I hadn't signed a message till now because of laziness. I just did it and posted the signed message in "Stake your Bitcoin address here". Thank you DdmrDdmr for the reminder.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-fun-little-christmas-themed-brain-teaser-solved-5213659
Happy 2020

Thank you for the reminder. This is my old staking, http://archive.is/AAPUH for reference. That was in 2017. Then I used this address until early 2018 because I bought a new laptop, create new address and totally forgot my old address. So I have to dig up my old laptop and sign a message after more than a year.

Previously I have signed a message with my SegWit bitcoin address. But did not stake the address. Today I inspired by this topic and create a legacy bitcoin wallet via electrum and try to sign a message. You can find my this address Stake your Bitcoin address [Just I have staked there]

 The informal-formal thread to verify addresses should remain the same:  Stake your Bitcoin address here. This current thread you are on here does not guarantee quoting and verifying messages, and is intended solely as a reminder to a, what seems to me, good practice (+ xMas wishes).[/i] It's better to keep the quating and verifying protocol where it normally resides ...

I'd still add it to the Stake your Bitcoin address here thread ...

You may need to give some clues here at some point ... I've seen the address is not on the  Stake your Bitcoin address here thread. I asume you have another one there though, and this one is for the puzzle per se.

OK, here is my entry from my first staked address, which you can find here.  I never sigend anyting in cyrilic so I took the chance now, seems like it worked fine.


If you want to verifiy it, here >

This is my staked address on Stake your Bitcoin address here thread, same as CucakRowo, I made this wallet using an online web wallet generator, before I'm using Electrum and know about vanity (custom). In this thread I want to create a new signature to verify me 

Thanks for remembering, these are details that we overlook and you have to know if everything works correctly in case you have to use it for real.

I created a vinatiy address to be staked with my account, even used it many times on the forum but just forgot to stake it on the Stake Your Bitcoin Address thread. Thanks for the reminder @DdmrDdmr.

It was so long ago I have no idea what my staked address is and it's probably part of a seed that's been long since discarded. I'll have to have a new year spruce up.

Wouldn't want to start the new year with my account dropping messages like 'Dear, I liking the bit coins for we make excellent profitings' with no way to stop it.

Interesting enough, I've done that exercise just about one month ago, just I was not thinking that far others could need/use an advice try this themselves.
But you did think on giving the advice, hats off for that!

When I signed up I created a wallet with electrum specifically for the address to be published in my profile.
DdmrDdmr's suggestion to try every now and then to use it to sign a message is really useful:

This address was created via brainwallet (newbie knowledge):

Then i learn about electrum wallet (around mid August 2019). Since then, i use electrum to help verify sign message on this thread. When i had difficulty verifying this address , then my knowledge is increasing. finally i can know what is P2SH address. (  touched   ).
Since then, i decide that i don't want to use above sign message again. Now, here's my current stake address :

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My story about BTC sign message and BTC wallet address was pathetic and hilarious. (    )

It just like me

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I have made Telegram animated sticker for Bitcointalk members
Link: https://t.me/addstickers/BitcointalkAnimated
something like this:

It looks like the telegram changed the dimensions of the sticker

Okay, yeah, that's worse.  I don't feel so bad anymore. 

Even if you think you're using a "private" service, anything posted on the internet is, or potentially could be exposed to the whole world.  If it's google, then it's almost a certainty.

The simplest way is to combine Ledger + Electrum, since Ledger Live is not supporting message sign. I don't see how this would compromise your data, private keys never leave Ledger Nano. I don't think there's any better and safer way to sign a message when it comes to Ledger, and for sure this is not an old Chrome app which can only be an extra option.

You got another reason to create a fancy custom address.

How to sign a message from the ledger without exposing any data to third party tools?

What I did was worse: I accidentally copied my private key into my Google search field, and for sure they still remember it!
That's why I "unstaked it and staked a new one.
I'm not signing a "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" though, I prefer to unlock my wallet as little as possible.

Here is a small puzzle to solve in the holiday. Try to figure out what is interesting about this message and receive up to 20 merits from me. There is 2 interesting parts, 10 merit per part
Happy 2020 everyone.

This shall have its own topic https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-fun-little-christmas-themed-brain-teaser-solved-5213659

A signed message is free and doesn't require time for confirmations.  Otherwise I agree, sending pre-discussed amount could just as easily be used as proof.  I seem to recall this being suggested to someone who had lost their account but had only used exchange addresses on the forum.

I never understood signed message idea 💡.

my 1J address in my profile has been there for a long time and somewhere some place I staked it.

but why a message to prove control.

Why not deposit  0.00000025 btc in it and take 0.00000025 out of it.

shows you control it the same as a message.

when you want to prove you are still you

add back 0.00000025 and with draw 0.00000025

shows you still control address.

is not this not just as good as signing the address? or am i missing something.

Personally, I believe that using a hardware wallet to sign a message here in the forum is like killing an ant with an atomic bomb (I don't know if this expression exists in English, it is common in Portuguese)

You don't need all that security for that. And as Welsh said, a good idea is to have the staked address completely separated from your funds.

I have the seed and private key of my staked address noted down in a paper, and that key is now imported into my mobile wallet. If I need to sign a message again from that address I can just paste that seed in iancoleman.io, get the private key, and sign it using any software. Ofc I would never do that using my ledger nano seed, but it is very convenient to do with a 0 balance address.

I know other members here do that as well




Which email are you using now? Protonmail?

I'm currently undergoing a complete security revamp, as in the past my security hasn't been all that great, but still probably better than average. Including the environment that my private key was for my staked address was generated on. Therefore, I'll be looking to create a new private key shortly, as well as revisiting passwords, and the operating system that I use. I've hinted in the last few days that I'm making the move to Qubes OS because of its isolation features. However, I'd like to have my private key for my staked address to be completely separate to everything else.

At least most of my funds are stored in a secure environment, but I probably didn't treat my staked address with the same due diligence.

Therefore, you can probably expect me to change several things in the near future. Especially, my gmail account that I no longer use.

Staked address, email, and password.

I made the uber-noob mistake with my first staked address.  I used an off-line machine to generate a paper private key, but then I imported it into my (then) Blockchain.info web wallet to sign a message with it.  

I've since deleted the private key from Blockchain.com's web wallet, but is it ever really deleted?  



Then I learned about Electrum and some good practices for keeping a desktop wallet secure.  My second staked address is from a desktop wallet that's only installed on a couple of well secured computers.


Having my staked address from a desktop wallet is probably not the most secure method, but I've used plenty of address around here that are from very secure hardware wallets.  If I ever had to prove that I'm me it shouldn't be too hard, even if one of my staked addresses was hijacked.

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Happy Holidays!
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I lost the PW to my electrum with my first original staked address in it but this one is plenty old and I restaked it quite a while back..

I think that having a staked address is good in more ways than just to recover a lost forum account.. It can be used to prove who you are for that and also anywhere else in the world, like on Telegram for example, and I think you should have one to properly sign contracts or deal agreements..

I have to admit that I am in a similar situation as you, because I also used my last signed address from Ledger Nano S (and even worse I pick one change address), so gap limits in Electrum are only way to see that address and sign message.

I still have access to my old address/es private keys, but considering how important it is to have a private key in a completely secure environment, only the address that is part of the hardware wallet makes sense to me at this point (assuming, of course, that the seed and PIN are in a safe place).

… at least for some of us …

After doing that, I could now see my original BTC address in the list of addresses in my Electrum wallet, and, at last, sign my xMas BTC message from my original BTC address (shown above).


Having said all that, this thread is not about a specific hardware/software wallet, but a gentle reminder to, perhaps, try out the Bitcoin Message signing process every now and then, especially after important updates or change of the wallet being used, or simply to remember the process. Ideally, trying out with the original address used in the Stake your Bitcoin address here thread.

Note: The informal formal thread to verify addresses should remain the same:  Stake your Bitcoin address here. This current thread you are on here does not guarantee quoting and verifying messages, and is intended solely as a reminder to a, what seems to me, good practice (+ xMas wishes).