4 Bitcoin Donation for Help Figuring Out Offline Wallet

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on April 10, 2014, 08:29:56 PM

Quote from: CCG on April 06, 2014, 03:11:57 PM

A good friend of mine recently past away at the age of 19 and he was heavily involved in the Bitcoin world. He was paranoid of someone taking his efforts so he created an offline wallet to store his bitcoins. The day he was at the hospital he gave me a paper and said this is all you will need to access the coins. He passed away that same day and I have no idea of how to access. We have tried Bitaddress.org without success, but I do remember him talking about cold storage, offline only, etc.. I will Donate 4 Bitcoins BTC to anyone that can help figure out how to access the coins. The string of numbers look like this (example):
#256232658142
K-JKLSAIB521732

This is how it is written down on the paper. He said this is all we would need to access the coins.
Any help is appreciated and with success I will Donate 4 Bitcoins BTC
Thanks,
CCG

This is such a beautiful story! I can clearly see that you and dead friend were close, much closer than he was with his family. That said, please make sure that NONE of the bitcoins ever reach their slimy asses.

Also, after the 30 days passes, the bank will be handing over to you, some random guy (but we all know you two were friends). the notebook that currently sits in the safe deposit box, for that's where I would keep it - at a bank.

If you haven't figured out the gist of this post, great, for then more may follow.

BTW: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/attention-bitcoin-bbs-45298.

I could go into great details of my relationship with him and his family if that would please the masses. We grew up together and by the way the bank is going to allow the Family to access the safety deposit and I am going to help them with everything. I was currently involved in his life as he moved out to go to college. At 19 were you closer to your friends or your family. It sounds like you don't recognize or can help me with this. Thanks for taking time to post.

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Quote from: Hippie Tech on April 10, 2014, 09:56:30 PM

mmm... pineapples ! Tongue

I agree with Pineapples! The family gets about 90% of his coins. I was his best friend. He was going to be my best man at my wedding. What he gave me is only about 10% of what he actually had. I hope when his family gets the chromebook out of the safety deposit box (yes, I am helping with this) that there is some software or something on it that I will be able to figure this out. Thanks

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mmm... pineapples ! Tongue

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Quote from: CCG on April 06, 2014, 03:11:57 PM

A good friend of mine recently past away at the age of 19 and he was heavily involved in the Bitcoin world. He was paranoid of someone taking his efforts so he created an offline wallet to store his bitcoins. The day he was at the hospital he gave me a paper and said this is all you will need to access the coins. He passed away that same day and I have no idea of how to access. We have tried Bitaddress.org without success, but I do remember him talking about cold storage, offline only, etc.. I will Donate 4 Bitcoins BTC to anyone that can help figure out how to access the coins. The string of numbers look like this (example):
#256232658142
K-JKLSAIB521732

This is how it is written down on the paper. He said this is all we would need to access the coins.
Any help is appreciated and with success I will Donate 4 Bitcoins BTC
Thanks,
CCG

This is such a beautiful story! I can clearly see that you and dead friend were close, much closer than he was with his family. That said, please make sure that NONE of the bitcoins ever reach their slimy asses.

Also, after the 30 days passes, the bank will be handing over to you, some random guy (but we all know you two were friends). the notebook that currently sits in the safe deposit box, for that's where I would keep it - at a bank.

If you haven't figured out the gist of this post, great, for then more may follow.

BTW: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/attention-bitcoin-bbs-45298.

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Dial the first number and when prompted enter the other one. An operator will tell you the private key.

I'm out of ideas.

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Quote from: CCG on April 06, 2014, 03:11:57 PM

The string of numbers look like this (example):
#256232658142
K-JKLSAIB521732

So, of course, these are not the actual numbers.

But maybe the actual numbers are brain wallets? Have you tried each one (of the actual numbers) and maybe the two together, basically all combinations, as brain wallet inputs to see if you get a key pair to some BTC?

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Quote from: CCG on April 07, 2014, 03:25:06 AM

Quote from: BurtW on April 07, 2014, 02:33:07 AM

Quote from: CCG on April 06, 2014, 05:45:11 PM

Quote from: WetSeals on April 06, 2014, 05:31:06 PM

Mac or Windows computer?

Do you know the address, or any transactions he made that we can get the address from?

He had a few different wallets. He keep a Chromebook that was never online in a Safety Deposit Box. He gave me this paper wallet with those string of numbers. I know he didn't like going online.

Do you have the Chromebook or not?

Wont be able to access the Chromebook for a couple of weeks. He kept it in a Safety Deposit Box and the bank won't holds it for 30 days with a proof of death. Hopefully it will show something.

It is definitly something on the Chromebook. Unless you get it, I wouldn't make my self crazy about, what the Random letters and numbers could mean.
So, be Patient, when you get the Chromebook, you will find out by your self, what the note means.

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Quote from: CCG on April 10, 2014, 03:47:10 AM

Quote from: Hippie Tech on April 09, 2014, 09:55:07 PM

Could these be coupon redemption codes from one of the exchanges or casinos ?

I don't think he kept anything online. He was paranoid that he would get hacked and lose all his coins. Guess looking at it now, I wish he would of sold them all and enjoyed what time he had left. Anyways he talked cold storage a lot. I will keep digging.
Thanks, worth a shot

If the wallet is offline, its likely in a password protected zip, sitting on a thumb drive/flash media somewhere.

What does the family have to say ? .. And now that I think about it.. why was it not offered to them ?

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Quote from: Hippie Tech on April 09, 2014, 09:55:07 PM

Could these be coupon redemption codes from one of the exchanges or casinos ?

I don't think he kept anything online. He was paranoid that he would get hacked and lose all his coins. Guess looking at it now, I wish he would of sold them all and enjoyed what time he had left. Anyways he talked cold storage a lot. I will keep digging.
Thanks, worth a shot

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Quote from: 11inches on April 09, 2014, 09:24:41 AM

I'll be honest with you -- the information you have posted thus far isn't really useful. It's definitely not a public or private key which is normally associated with Bitcoin. A string of numbers like that certainly isn't indicative of any common encryption (BIP38) that is used to encrypt addresses. Is there anything you are leaving out?

EDIT: Something fishy is definitely going on here. OP has a post dated back to March 16 claiming he operates a few Antminers. This guy definitely knows what a paper wallet is and how it works. This whole story seems very bizarre and fabricated. Not sure what his motive is but it's probably some kind of scam.

I'm out

Nothing fishy here at all. I can go over long details of how we got involved in the Bitcoin world because of my friend that past. He had bought Bitcoin when they were around $3. He was paranoid of storing them online because he was involved in some dark web stuff. Why bore you with all the details of how all of this has come around. I am not leaving anything out. This is all he gave me and said it would be all I need. If I never can figure it out, oh well life goes on, but if someone recognized something like this and could help I would reward them with 4btc. Heck I would probably give them 5. My dad and his business partner decided to jump into this bitcoin world recently and we have a lot of miners running. Yes, the other post on here was to help someone. Also, my friend was a member on most forums either as (ReadyEddy, or Level28Wizard). I just thought of that other name writing this, so I will check on here. Anyways, this is not a scam, and actually have website to verify, but why.
Thanks,
CCG

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Quote from: cp1 on April 09, 2014, 10:08:16 PM

Was he really doped up coming out of surgery and just wrote down nonsense thinking he was remembering some private key or password?

No, he gave it to me before. He was my best friend and we were involved in lots of things. His health wasn't always the best, and he gave me his paper wallet and told me that If anything ever did happen to him that I could get the coins with the information on it. I never thought anything of it. Never thought he would pass. He has a Chromebook that has 10x the amount of coins in that then what he gave me. I know its worth it to pursue and I hope by talking about it something might pop up that I can remember.

cp1

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Was he really doped up coming out of surgery and just wrote down nonsense thinking he was remembering some private key or password?

Hippie Tech

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Could these be coupon redemption codes from one of the exchanges or casinos ?

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It would be a funny turn of events, if OPs friend sold all his BTC and gave the money already away and is now only trolling his friend.

THE MASTER TROLL. TROLLING TILL THE LAST SECOND!

Come to think of it, i'll do that on my deathbed too!

cp1

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Were those the only two things he wrote on the paper? Did he really remember all those seemingly random characters?

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I'll be honest with you -- the information you have posted thus far isn't really useful. It's definitely not a public or private key which is normally associated with Bitcoin. A string of numbers like that certainly isn't indicative of any common encryption (BIP38) that is used to encrypt addresses. Is there anything you are leaving out?

EDIT: Something fishy is definitely going on here. OP has a post dated back to March 16 claiming he operates a few Antminers. This guy definitely knows what a paper wallet is and how it works. This whole story seems very bizarre and fabricated. Not sure what his motive is but it's probably some kind of scam.

I'm out

CCG

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Quote from: hilariousandco on April 08, 2014, 02:16:33 PM

Quote from: casinocoin on April 08, 2014, 02:10:34 PM

Quote from: CCG on April 07, 2014, 06:28:15 PM

Quote from: BurtW on April 07, 2014, 07:00:57 AM

Then, we wait. While we wait can you find out his user name on this forum? Perhaps simply log on from the computer he did use to go online. Perhaps he used the auto fill in feature on the browser. It would be very valuable to find this as we can then look at all of his posts.

Yes, he was a member on all the forums. Good idea.
Thanks

Was his name john by chance.

Haha. Maybe John K's name wasn't actually John? Why wouldn't your friend give you more details on how to retrieve them?

He was going in for Surgery and no one was expecting him to pass away. All he said was this is all you need to access the coins. He probably thought I knew how to access them. I didn't even think of asking him about it.

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I wonder if #256 is a hint? :-)

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Quote from: hilariousandco on April 08, 2014, 02:16:33 PM

Quote from: casinocoin on April 08, 2014, 02:10:34 PM

Quote from: CCG on April 07, 2014, 06:28:15 PM

Quote from: BurtW on April 07, 2014, 07:00:57 AM

Then, we wait. While we wait can you find out his user name on this forum? Perhaps simply log on from the computer he did use to go online. Perhaps he used the auto fill in feature on the browser. It would be very valuable to find this as we can then look at all of his posts.

Yes, he was a member on all the forums. Good idea.
Thanks

Was his name john by chance.

Haha. Maybe John K's name wasn't actually John? Why wouldn't your friend give you more details on how to retrieve them?

Good point. Was he from Malaysia ?

I think he gave you password to his computer in bank deposit box only, so you can access the coins only if he is dead.

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Quote from: casinocoin on April 08, 2014, 02:10:34 PM

Quote from: CCG on April 07, 2014, 06:28:15 PM

Quote from: BurtW on April 07, 2014, 07:00:57 AM

Then, we wait. While we wait can you find out his user name on this forum? Perhaps simply log on from the computer he did use to go online. Perhaps he used the auto fill in feature on the browser. It would be very valuable to find this as we can then look at all of his posts.

Yes, he was a member on all the forums. Good idea.
Thanks

Was his name john by chance.

Haha. Maybe John K's name wasn't actually John? Why wouldn't your friend give you more details on how to retrieve them?

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