Watch only btc address issue with private keys

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Quote from: baliboy5781@ on July 05, 2018, 03:41:49 AM

HELLO if anyone can answer this question then i would be most appreciated i have btc locked in my WATCH ONLY address in my BLOCKCHAIN wallet and i want to be able to move it to another wallet but it requires PRIVATE KEYS which i cant obtain and im told that any btc address starting with 3 is near impossible to get keys so im stuck between a rock and a hard place i have checked the BLOCKCHAIN for both addresses in WATCH ONLY MODE and the transactions have been confirmed so if any member has any idea how i can

1.get the PRIVATE KEYS for the WATCH ONLY btc addresses so i can go through the process of transferring it to a secure wallet Happy to pay for your services if we can achieve this only after the funds appear in my NEW wallet

Post your question here,

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0

I am sure there is a way and someone experienced will be able to help you here. However, don't pay anyone upfront. Get the job done and then pay for their service.

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It seems that it is very difficult to do and to get the private key bitcoin it probably can not, so you should be patient.

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Quote from: talkbitcoin on July 05, 2018, 03:49:41 AM

how did you get those addresses? are they some address you found on the internet or did you generate them with some bitcoin wallet? if yes which wallet?

I guess he get that address from internet and just copy paste it in import address in blockchain wallet.

To OP, if you're not save that address private key, then you can't do anything with it. There's no way you can get private key for that address.

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Quote from: talkbitcoin on July 05, 2018, 03:49:41 AM

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how did you get those addresses? are they some address you found on the internet or did you generate them with some bitcoin wallet? if yes which wallet?

This ^^ is the most important question that's been asked in this thread.

In order to generate a watch only wallet, you just import an address (*any* address really, you don't need to own the private key to the address to begin with), so the only thing your watch only wallet can do is scan the blocks for new unspent outputs funding the imported address and create the sum of the unspent outputs funding this address. In order to spend these unspent outputs, you really, really, really need the private key.
The only way to help the OP is when we know wich wallet he used to generate the address whitch he imported into his watch only wallet to begin with...

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Quote from: baliboy5781@ on July 05, 2018, 03:41:49 AM

im told that any btc address starting with 3 is near impossible to

if any address starting with 1, 3, bc1 or any other format in the future is created using a good wallet then it is impossible to get its private key. that is the security of bitcoin that you are talking about!

how did you get those addresses? are they some address you found on the internet or did you generate them with some bitcoin wallet? if yes which wallet?

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Do you mean your blockchain.info wallet?

Not sure about blockchain.info's watch only wallet, but you can't simply just extract the private keys from the watch only wallet if you want to, since I'm pretty sure you only need to enter the address when adding a watch only wallet.

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HELLO if anyone can answer this question then i would be most appreciated i have btc locked in my WATCH ONLY address in my BLOCKCHAIN wallet and i want to be able to move it to another wallet but it requires PRIVATE KEYS which i cant obtain and im told that any btc address starting with 3 is near impossible to get keys so im stuck between a rock and a hard place i have checked the BLOCKCHAIN for both addresses in WATCH ONLY MODE and the transactions have been confirmed so if any member has any idea how i can

1.get the PRIVATE KEYS for the WATCH ONLY btc addresses so i can go through the process of transferring it to a secure wallet Happy to pay for your services if we can achieve this only after the funds appear in my NEW wallet

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