I have a Onename profile. When I run blockstack-browser I’m prompted to either restore an account or create one. Should I restore an account using my onename identity or create a new account?
If I should restore my account, where do I find my “backup phrase?” I have an “App encrypted secret” is that the same thing?
If I should create a new account, how does my onename identity and the blockstack browser work together?
You’ll need to transfer your Onename name to the Blockstack Browser wallet.
To do that, you’ll need to get an identity owner address from your browser wallet and export your name from Onename to that address.
We’ll enable a feature in the Browser very soon to provide that ability.
You can stack status of the feature in this github issue:
Yiha! Ticket moved into Doing for current release. Still might take a bit but this is getting there. Thanks guys.
hey @larry, team, it’s kinda crazy to reopen this discussion almost 10 year later.
I use to own a onename identity back then in 16. i found today on a very old drive a recovery phrase for my onename id and it’s associated address. it turns out there is a quite interesting amount of btc on that address.
i tried to use the recovery phrase to derive manually the private key and unfortunately the onename phrase does not seems to follow the standard bip39 dictionary. that is a pity as i can recover the private key.
it looks like online there is zero docs on how onename used this strange 12 words passphrase.
do you know if there is a way i can regain access to recover these btc?
many thanks,
Marco
Hey Marco,
I don’t entirely remember how the onename bitcoin wallet was set up. It was probably designed around 2014 which was also when I found out about the project and before I got involved.
I’ll ping some of the people that might know with a link to this post and see if they can help.
@croll83 this is what I heard back
I think the Onename username private key also gives access to the BTC. But then later we allowed users to input new/separate BTC addresses.
So for (a) if using default address then the username private key would have access but for (b) it’s unrelated to us and they put some other address there
I also found this information in a public old version of the onename support page:
from that:
[Early User] When I signed up, I was given a 12-word passphrase and emailed a backup code. How does this work?
We asked our early users (signed up before summer 2014) to write down a 12-word passphrase that gave them access to their accounts. And just in case they lost the passphrase, we emailed them a backup code. If you were one of these users, you can log in to Onename with your email and the 12-word passphrase as the password. Then, if you’d like, you can update your password at any time.
Q: Who has my private key?
Only you have access to your private key. Onename encypts your private key with the password that you provided and keeps the encrypted copy on our servers. If you forget your password then you can use the backup file you saved during signup to recover the private key.
It sounds like you were one of the very early users since you had the 12 word phrase.
Perhaps someone at Hiro (the company that used to be called Onename and then Blockstack) can either share the code or take a look at it and explain the algorithm that was used. Or someone who was around at that time will remember the algorithm that was used. cc @shea256 @muneeb @jude