Hey, I had an old blockstream green wallet for a family member
We recovered the wallet, all good. Trying to send funds out, but I need an email confirmation passcode?! Wtf is that?
I know I never set up an email with a wallet. Just the seed words (as it should be)
Can anyone help what this means? What do I do?
#asknostr
looks like you set 2fa
Click the gear icon to go to the settings page. Then, scroll down to the Security section and tap Two-Factor Authentication.
You will now be able to see the email address or phone number associated with your wallet.
So it basically had be broadcast a dust TX (just paying miner fees) to reactivate the 2FA
awaiting confirmation right now
Very very sketchy def not a fan for new people. Its an old wallet funds haven't moved in many years
Check their email address. It's either that or a TOTP code.
Maybe it's to whatever email is set up in the app?
Or the pin you set up for the wallet. That's 6 digits too.
Already tried the pin, not it..
So basically to reset the 2FA, its having me broadcast a TX (just paying miner fees) to allow to send again. Wallet is very old.
Very very odd never experienced this. Def not newbie friendly..
Super weird
Early green wallets were not done in a way that made them compatible with other wallets for some reason like backup keys or access, I don’t recall exactly. Not like that now so I hear.
I've noticed that.
Had a problem with my DCA stack in that wallet years ago; moved them out immediately and glad I did.
This now today is just nonsense. Again, not at all user friendly.
Makes me concerned for folks who use a bitkey and want to recover in another wallet in ~5 years
Funny you mention that. It is actually why I made the genesis key—it’s the binary of a 256-bit private key, and that will never change and it will last for centuries. Never be wallet-trapped.
Yes love the design.
This is what wallets should be.
I appreciate the 2-2 for beginners, etc., but just give me my 24 words with an optional passphrase; that is more than enough.
This👆🏻
That’s another beauty I wanted in the binary private key when I made the genesis. It can be anything—P2PKH, P2WPKH, HD Seed Phrase, even an HD wallet Seed Phrase plus passphrase. It’s all up to the owner of the key, and everything starts with the binary entropy.
Update us on the green wallet progress if you get any I am curious what happens.
So it was a simple email confirmation
Send funds->emailed 6-digit code->enter into green->funds sent
It's a fine work flow but they never wrote down an email backup (they're very detailed on all their passwords, etc) so that is what was concerning
Iirc the idea was that you had to 2FA but if you couldn't for sosome reason, you could recover the funds after a timeout yourself. I forget the details.
I think that's what I did for me;
It asked me to broadcast a TX (just miner fees) to reactivate the 2FA, since the wallet was so old.
Its going through so we'll see what happens.
6 confs later and still giving me the same thing
I'll have dig into this. I'll ask some blockstream employees
I feel so stupid; it was an email confirmation.
Go ahead and roast me.
Can't believe I allowed them to hook up their email all those years ago to a wallet (maybe it was required back then; don't recall).
It was easy to send, but for us who are accustomed to just having your priv keys and restoring your wallet, this was too easy, it was complex.
They never wrote down their email linked to the wallet either. THANK GOD it was the one they assumed.
Glad they are now moved for them
