Questions tagged [wallets]
Wallets are applications on top of accounts, so called smart contracts, which manage your Ether. There are simple savings wallets or multisignature wallets.
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I got scammed or suspect scam on Ethereum or Uniswap. What to do?
This is a general question and answer on ethereum.stackexchange.com to all "I got scammed, please help" posts.
This applies to you if you think:
You have been scammed
You think something ...
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What is the recommended way to safely store Ether?
There are several options for storing Ether :
Accounts
Mist/Geth accounts.
Paper wallets.
Icebox Air gapped offline signing of transactions
Wallet
Mist Multi-signature.
In short there are a lot ...
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How to backup mist wallets?
I know I can backup the keystore files from my running ethereum client which holds my accounts.
But how can I backup wallets created with mist? Is it enough to write down the public address where the ...
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How to reduce the chances of your Ethereum wallet getting hacked?
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The hack that occurred on May 12 2016 to steal 7,218 ethers from Patrick only affects miners where:
Incoming RPC connections from the Internet on TCP port 8545 are forwarded to the machine ...
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How do I backup my ether accounts?
I want to backup my accounts onto a USB or other external device for safe-keeping. How can I do that?
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How can I recover or reset a lost wallet password?
Let's say that a user has lost or forgotten their password. Is there a way to reset the password or recover it?
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What's the difference between Accounts and Wallets in Mist?
In Mist, there are some addresses listed as accounts, and some listed as wallets. What's the difference? Which should I use? And why do I need Ether to create a Wallet?
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How do I import my presale wallet?
I purchased ether during the presale. Is there an easy way to import those ether and start using them?
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Ethereum Vanity Address generators
Are there any Ethereum vanity address generators available other than:
Vanityreum (python)
Vanieth (go)
Which is the fastest? Can they be optimized further?
What is the use-case of vanity ...
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My C: drive in my WINDOWS PC is almost full. How can I change both geth and Mist path to relocate my blockchain files?
I read here somewhere that I have to execute geth --datadir "NEW PATH". But this solution:
1) Doesn't work in a permanent way for me (it will actually point geth in that direction but if I after ...
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Approve contract to withdraw funds from users's wallet
I want to achieve the following flow:
A user clicks a button allowing my contract to spend funds on the user's behalf
A user clicks a second button whereupon funds are transferred from the user's ...
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Connecting the wallet of to your dApp and different Ethereum wallet types
How users can use connect their different wallets, like MetaMask, mobile wallets and hardware wallets with a dApp?
What wallets are supported?
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Sending tokens to multiple addresses
how could I go about sending tokens to a couple of thousands of addresses without havinging to do it manually? It's an airdrop.
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Is Ethereum wallet address case sensitive?
I sent some amount of ETH to a wallet. I checked the wallets balance on ether chain. I entered the address in the search field and noticed both lowercase and uppercase versions of the address seemed ...
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How to recover my ether.li wallet with any other wallet software?
I am facing the following problem with my ether.li wallet, I never had Problems in the past with sending transactions but for the last two days transactions stopped working for me. Whenever I try to ...
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How to create Bitcoin-like wallet structure for Ethereum?
'Hi everyone!
Any suggestions for an architecture to reach to Bitcoin's wallet structure for Ethereum?
Appreciate any help,
R.
Geth version: 1.10.12-stable
Geth's web3 api version: 0.20.1
OS: Windows
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Is there API to create Ether wallet?
I know how to create wallet manually, however I would not like to take my clients out of website (I doubt anyone would) and would rather do their wallet creation behind the scenes when they register ...
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Are there any android wallets for Ethereum? [closed]
What Ethereum wallets are available for Android? Or which ones are still being developed?
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Blocks are not being downloaded [duplicate]
After the attacks the clients are shit. At the moment, I am unable to download any blocks, except if I delete all the chaindata and it starts again.
I have less than 6k blocks left to download and I ...
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Is it possible to unlock a geth wallet through JSON RPC? [duplicate]
I'm currently developing an application on top of Ethereum's JSON RPC. I would like to be able to unlock and lock the wallet as needed, similar to how Bitcoin does it. However, it seems that at the ...
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Where's the Solidity code for Mist's default multi-sig contract wallet?
I would like to audit the Solidity code of Mist's default multi-sig wallet contract, where is it in github exactly? Thanks
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Can my Ethereum Based Tokens / Coins be traded on a crypto currency exchange?
I am building my own Crypto based on Ethereum Blockchain. Is it possible for this newly created currency to be traded on any crypto currency exchange?
And secondly, will my new currency be compatible ...
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How the centralized exchanges handle deposits?
'Greetings!
I am wondering if anyone is aware of the structure that is used by centralized exchanges like Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin, etc. to handle their ETH/ERC20 Tokens deposits.
I started to ...
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Sent transaction between ETH and ETC accounts
Halp! I sent a transaction between an ETH account and an ETC account by accident! How can I recover the ether?
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Can someone explain the meaning of derivation path in wallet in plain English (such as m/44'/60'/0'/0)?
Like m / purpose' / coin_type' / account' / change / address_index
which gives say a value of m/44'/60'/0'/0
What is the meaning of "m", purpose, coin type, etc.
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Where does metamask store the wallet seed? (file path)
I have a Windows installation that cannot be booted anymore.
I'd like to copy the file containing the Metamask wallet seed to another machine and have that Metamask installation use it.
The same ...
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How to use web3 to send money from wallet A to wallet B?
var myContract = web3.eth.contract(abi);
var address = contract address;
var contract_data = myContract.at(address);
var sender = '0xd3aaa525c087978133abb517593ea334f16abd1f';
var receiver = '...
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How to troubleshoot a white screen in Mist browser?
I keep running into issues with white or black screens showing up after installing the mist browser or the ethereum wallet.
How to troubleshoot a blank screen in the wallet or browser?
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Anatomy of a Geth Wallet File
Just want to make sure I can fully recover a geth wallet. There are many parts to a typical wallet file:
{"address":"ethaddress",
"Crypto":{"cipher":"..aes","ciphertext...
So basically theres the :
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Reinstalled MetaMask, account lost?
I had 3 accounts under my MetaMask Chrome extension. One of them had some small deposit. I have reinstalled the extension and used seed phrase to get access again. However, I can see only one account (...
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Seed phrase compromised, ERC20/NFT remaining, what are the options?
This is general Q&A for all the "My wallet is compromised by a sweeper bot, what can I do?" questions, as well as an attempt to combat the "Crypto Theft Recovery Options" ...
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How to create an Ethereum wallet?
'Hi everyone!
I'm wondering if anyone has trouble using web3's create wallet method? I do not have access to web3.eth.accounts.wallet command through my Geth's console.
Appreciate any help,
R.
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Please tell me how to get sweeper out my wallet
I Will pay anything to get this sweeper out my wallet anyone help!!my funds have been getting forwarded out my wallet for a Long time and I can't stop it
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Is there any hardware wallet available for Ethereum?
What are the various available hardware wallets for Ethereum?
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How to enable and mine Testnet (Morden)?
I have installed Ethereum Wallet on Ubuntu 14.04.
After the installation was completed, I realized that my Testnet (Morden) mode was disabled.
Looking in the Develop -> Network menu, the Main network ...
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How to create a temporary account for testnet with funds?
I'm a newbie in using the ethereum wallet.
After I completely installed and downloaded data for the testnet I create a new account but my new account has nothing (0.00 Eth).
It lead to I can't do ...
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Is there a way to set up an Ethereum wallet without downloading the whole blockchain?
(noobie question) I've tried using Mist and/or Ethereum-Wallet, but the tried to node downloaded > 30GB of blockchain data. Thanks!
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Lost Ethers in Google ad phishing scam
I am currently looking at my ethereum wallet and it shows that a transaction happened overnight and wiped my whole balance. I was trying to transfer some funds from my cold wallet. I went on www dot ...
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Documentation On Multisig Wallet in Mist?
Is there documentation related to the built-in multisig wallet contract in the Mist Wallet? I see there are many additional functions in this contract like changing / adding / removing owners etc. ...
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How can I force a redownload of the entire blockchain on the mist wallet?
I'm having an invalid date issue on mist. (https://github.com/ethereum/mist/issues/525)
I'd like to just try to redownload the blockchain again.
How can I do that ?
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Is the Mist Wallet stable?
I want to install the Mist Wallet and store my Ethereum in it. However, I wanted to know how stable the Mist Wallet is. Is it safe and reliable to use?
The reason I ask this is because there are ...
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JavaScript Code Required to Generate an Ethereum Address?
I am aware of several tools and websites that generate addresses for you, but I'm looking for an actual JavaScript code snippet to demonstrate the steps plainly.
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How to generate an Ethereum address using Web3.js using a string of text or brain wallet?
I want to implement a brain wallet like address generator using web3.js -- I basically have a string of text and want to convert this into an Ethereum address. How can this be done?
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Common Gas Wallet for ERC20 Wallets?
We have a wallet structure where users send tokens to individual user wallet addresses generated for them, we then sweep all the funds in the user's wallets to a centralized pool. The individual ...
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How to use a metamask Wallet from web3,py?
I deployed contracts to Ropsten test net using truffle and a metamask wallet to pay for the transactions and Infura as a Hosted ethereum node.
To do that in Truffle, I have to use the truffle-...
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Ethereum wallet address creation limit and ether storage limit/capacity per address
I am new to Ethereum.
I would like to know
How many addresses can you create in an Ethereum wallet (limit)?
Meaning is it 1K, 10K or 100K addressees you can create in a Ethereum wallet
What is the ...
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Windows Wallet, Beta 7, stuck at 460,000 out of 663,000?
My friend downloaded the Windows Beta 7 wallet and as you can see in the picture he is stuck at block 460.000. Also the "out of" blocks statistic keeps jumping between 663,000 to 1,000,000+.
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Ethereum wallet Vs Ethereum account?
I created an Ethereum node (geth) and this automatically created an Ethereum account. Is this account an Ethereum wallet? I then created 2 other accounts using personal.newAccount() command. Are these ...
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Trouble with Mist wallet 0.8.7 and 0.8.8
When I tried to run my Ethereum Mist wallet yesterday I ran into two problems:
1.) When starting up version 0.8.7 I got a popup that said:
*"Couldn't connect to node? See the logs for more:*
*Node ...
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How are transaction hashes generated
I am trying to find out if each transaction hash created by a wallet has some similarity or if every hash is "random".
I suppose my original question leads into whether or not a transaction hash be ...
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