There is no "solution". If there was, the currency would be useless since anyone could recreate any other person's wallet.
So why @davecgh suggested to forum users create address with "--noseed" flag? Why dcraddrgen support this flag at all? And why it says "Your private key is used to spend your funds. Do not reveal it to anyone." if you cannot spend your funds.
I do remember specifically warning about that! It definitely can't be done through the web wallet and I doubt it will ever be able to. However, it's possible to import a standalone private key into dcrwallet. NOTE: This is only for --noseed addresses specifically in response to @Dyrk's question. Don't run this if you don't know what we're talking about! Code: # Unlock the wallet ./dcrctl --wallet walletpassphrase "private encryption passphrase" 60 # Import the standalone (--noseed) private key $ ./dcrctl --wallet importprivkey "put WIF private key here" # View balance of imported account (give it some time to rescan and look at the log in dcrwallet to see rescan progress) $ ./dcrctl --wallet getbalance "imported" 0 all
From what i can understand, above method is for importing a single address private key and not creating a wallet. Since no one has private key for their airdrop wallet address, this method cannot be used to import that address.
You can create new wallet and import there this address using private key. If you got 282DCR to this address (with private key only), you should thank God and @davecgh for the help.
i don't think so because you only have seed & hex but not the specific private key for your first address that you submitted for airdrop. Private key can only be extracted once you have recreated the wallet. So, no good for airdrop retrieval.
If somebody generated a vanity address with --noseed and submitted that address as the airdrop address (instead of following the directions provided by the airdrop), then that is where it would matter. Remember that an address is nothing more than a base58 encoded representation of a public key and some metadata along with a checksum to help prevent typos. That public key is in turn calculated from a private key and therefore you need that private key to spend coins. So, what's a private key? Well it's just a really, really, really (really!) big (256 bits) cryptographically random number. This is why it's possible to have individual addresses not tied to a seed. The airdrop simply sent coins to the submitted address. Precisely due to the fact it's impossible to recover a private key from an address, there is no way the project could know if the person used a deterministically generated private key as instructed or did something else entirely. It's all pretty math heavy to get into the details, but effectively all the seed-based approach (also called hierarchical deterministic keys) does is uses some fancy algorithms to deterministically generate private keys from the initial seed. Therefore, they're a lot better than a bunch of unrelated private keys in general because it means with only a single seed you can recover every single private key. On the other hand, with individual (--noseed) private keys, you have to keep track of every single one individually.
Yeah i have that problem with my bitcoin core wallet, luckily i dont use too many addresses. But i guess if someone was savvy enough to generate a vanity address then he would not need help to recover his airdrop. heh
On the other hand, many of this addresses are under perffect controll of respected owners. They never moved their assets because they save them for later when it's value will be much greater. This is exactly my case. My airdrop coins sit still in first address and they will not move for long long time .
So if you are going to keep your Airdrop in your wallet for a long time, why don't you participate in PoS? For Airdrop coins you can buy 137 tickets (you still have time to get a cheap 2dcr price), if reward will be 1.8DCR for vote, after 5 months you will get ~ +246DCR = 520DCR in total with your airdrop.
I agree with your point. Problem is that I still not understand this PoS very well and I'm still learning and try to comprehend. I was trying this with testnet and a lot of tDCR disappeared somwhere in testnet space . I was not able to track them again. It's true that after couple weeks they appear from somwhere again and there was more coins than before. So obviously it worked, only problem is that I don't know what I'm doing . It's easy with test coins, with real DCR for now I have not enough nerves. But I'm PoW miner and still learning.
what I don't understand is where this 33 word seed which I have now came from . Unless this DCR webwallet service somehow generated a random seed during this debacle , it has to be the same seed, the same 33 words. is that even possible for a random seedword list to have appeared? I hope something can be done to help fix this for the people it happened to. I have made the decision to stick with Decred and take this as a life learning lesson. The reason I want to stick with Decred is because the great people here inspire confidence. One person even tried to help by doing a teamview chat session with my computer/ sadly to no avail. If I buy coins I can still ride this road to riches , hopefully. But I am flat broke right now, this is depressing. This airdrop was the only hope I had keeping my spirits up. If anyone wants to lend some coins or donate some coins to me , please help my address is DsWXfcz5T438UeKNMXSjJ2UjmM8frdkajw2 If anyone wants to lend some coins or donate some coins to me , please help, I will gladly repay any coins lent or donated , in future better times, with interest
LOL same here, waiting for a windows GUI wallet at least,I tried sending here and there on the testnet but kept getting errors about not connectiong to the CPmine daemon etc etc. I havent touched my airdrop wallet yet(I did confirm it on the mainnet blockchain though so hurrahhh!!!) and it looks like there are a lot of issues with the webwallet. Is there like a Noob tutorial on how exactly PoS mining works, I am quite aware of the PoW process but PoS is still quite foreign to me; all this ticket voting system and ensuring that you're online to participate in the vote is quite confusing to me @Dyrk you seem fairly familiar with the PoS process, care to explain or share a link?
Code: dcrwallet -u user -P password --walletpass <PublicPassphrase> --enablestakemining --votebits=1 --balancetomaintain=100.0 --ticketmaxprice=20 Dont forgot to Unlock wallet after enabling PoS mining Code: dcrctl -u user -P password --wallet walletpassphrase <Privatepassphrase> 0
It took me a few attempts to get the right key when I set up my account, and have written down and used each variant, with screenshots; yet it still comes up with "wallet seed invalid". Is there a way to recover my original seed to create my wallet, or would I have to start from scratch and create a new account?
There is no way to recover seeds. If you didn't participate in the airdrop, you wouldn't have an initial seed and you would just create a new wallet. From there you can go to Preferences -> Backup in order to get your new seed in order to write it down and save it in case you ever need to restore your wallet.
Because the Solo PoS Mining guide specifically warns to only participate if you will have a computer running your wallet and connected to the internet 24/7 so that you don't miss any votes coming your way. This is not feasible for some people right now. I'm waiting for the PoS mining pools.
I'm using a Raspberry Pi, personally. Likely to pay for itself within a couple of weeks, then it's well on its way to paying for the electricity it uses, and possibly even my internet bills. If you'd like, I can get a box set up for you including instructions for importing your wallet and getting started with staking. I would want to be paid for parts and a small charge for services, but if you used the result for Staking, it should pay for itself inside of a month(given current pool environment and exchange rates). Depending on availability, I could even use a Raspberry Pi Zero to significantly reduce the cost.(It should be enough, provided you only use it for PoS Decred mining.) Send me a PM if you're interested. No charge until the box is ready to ship, box will be shipped the first business day after payment and shipping address are received, and I will never ask you for your wallet seed or private key.(I'll include instructions to import those yourself) This offer is open to anybody interested.
Thanks for the offer. I'm sure it can be of service to someone. My current issue isn't setting up a box...it's the 142 day max wait period. I'm likely moving within that period so I won't have constant internet connectivity. I would have to use some kind of cloud service.