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Topic: 4 Bitcoin Donation for Help Figuring Out Offline Wallet - page 2. (Read 4014 times)

legendary
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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.
CCG
newbie
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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
legendary
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All paid signature campaigns should be banned.
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.
hero member
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Circa 2010
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.

Do you know if he always stored his Chromebook in a safety deposit box with his bank? If so, it seems (to me at least) a probable solution as a cold storage method with the two strings being the password for the computer and the other for his wallet.

It doesn't look like any private key I've ever seen, nor does it seem to be a seed necessary for recovery of a wallet.
CCG
newbie
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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.
legendary
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Yeah check chromebook who knows if it's the password of his some wallet.
legendary
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All paid signature campaigns should be banned.
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?
legendary
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There is also the possibility that ccg is trying to steal from someone's wallet. We don't know him from Adam so how can we be sure? The 4BTC bounty makes me suspicious that he either a) doesn't value the coins because he stole them rather than earned them or b) he has no intention of paying out. Also what kind of person hands over some weird numbers that will unlock his wallet without any sort of explanation as to how to use them?

Seriously? It's not a bounty. It's a donation. Do you wan't me to send you the website remembering my friend. Not all people bad. Let me publicly post information trying to do something wrong. I am sorry you think that. Also, we mine coins currently and I feel that a 4 Bitcoin Donation would draw more interest in trying to help me out. I am more than happy to privately talk to you regarding any information you want.  I never thought of asking him while he was in the hospital to show my how to access them. People have more courtesy than that, or at least I do.  You need to trust people a little more. Yes, when I first jumped into the Bitcoin Community (because of my friend) I was Scammed out of a Big Chunk of money out of China. Am I still upset about this, Yes.  But not all people are bad. If you can help, I would be happy to donate to you.
Thanks for the input.
CCG

Rest assured I will NOT be helping you with this privately or publicly. I've said my peace and will bow out of this thread now.
legendary
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Hello CCG. What your now deceased friend left you is the private keys to his BTC collection.

What makes you think those are private keys?  They sure don't look like private keys to me.  If you can't even tell what a private key looks like, why should anyone trust you to be able to help?
legendary
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Designer - Developer
Hello CCG. What your now deceased friend left you is the private keys to his BTC collection.
You are going to need to import it into a wallet. I personally use electrum as I find it is the best for me.

If you need a hand importing the private keys and moving the BTC around I would be willing to help you.

PM me if you still need a hand. Smiley
CCG
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There is also the possibility that ccg is trying to steal from someone's wallet. We don't know him from Adam so how can we be sure? The 4BTC bounty makes me suspicious that he either a) doesn't value the coins because he stole them rather than earned them or b) he has no intention of paying out. Also what kind of person hands over some weird numbers that will unlock his wallet without any sort of explanation as to how to use them?

Seriously? It's not a bounty. It's a donation. Do you wan't me to send you the website remembering my friend. Not all people bad. Let me publicly post information trying to do something wrong. I am sorry you think that. Also, we mine coins currently and I feel that a 4 Bitcoin Donation would draw more interest in trying to help me out. I am more than happy to privately talk to you regarding any information you want.  I never thought of asking him while he was in the hospital to show my how to access them. People have more courtesy than that, or at least I do.  You need to trust people a little more. Yes, when I first jumped into the Bitcoin Community (because of my friend) I was Scammed out of a Big Chunk of money out of China. Am I still upset about this, Yes.  But not all people are bad. If you can help, I would be happy to donate to you.
Thanks for the input.
CCG
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There is also the possibility that ccg is trying to steal from someone's wallet. We don't know him from Adam so how can we be sure? The 4BTC bounty makes me suspicious that he either a) doesn't value the coins because he stole them rather than earned them or b) he has no intention of paying out. Also what kind of person hands over some weird numbers that will unlock his wallet without any sort of explanation as to how to use them?

could be
sr. member
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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.

That is is his cold storage and that is probably user name and password for the  chrome book
legendary
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There is also the possibility that ccg is trying to steal from someone's wallet. We don't know him from Adam so how can we be sure? The 4BTC bounty makes me suspicious that he either a) doesn't value the coins because he stole them rather than earned them or b) he has no intention of paying out. Also what kind of person hands over some weird numbers that will unlock his wallet without any sort of explanation as to how to use them?
CCG
newbie
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Merit: 0
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.
newbie
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Merit: 0
Mac or Windows computer?

Do you know the address, or any transactions he made that we can get the address from?
sr. member
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paranoia will kill ya.  i keep telling people.
CCG
newbie
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Coiner8, yes it is Bitcoin.  I know how much was in the wallet. 4 BitcoinBTC is a fair deal for help with this. I feel that If I go 4 Bitcoin then someone that might recognize the keys and be able to help. Over the last month I have mined for Bitcoin, PeerCoin, BetaCoin, ShaCoin, etc..  So I do understand all the AltCoins. 
Thanks
legendary
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Franky, I feel that a 4 BitcoinBTC donation is fair. We have jumped into the Bitcoin community and we have been mining for over a month.  If someone can recognize the numbers and it works to be able to access the actual address then I would be happy to share.  I also have given free advice to others and I believe in karma, but in this instance I understand that time is money and I would love to get this figured out.  Danny, those numbers I shared are the right amount just changed them up, but they are the correct amount.  So 12 numbers on the first line, and 8 Capital letters and 6 numbers on the second line.  We have tried bitaddress.org and use the numbers to create an address, but that didn't work.  I haven't tried Armory, but someone on reddit said he didn't think it was Armory. 

It would help a lot if he ever mentioned where or how he preferred to store his bitcoins.

The number could be a userID to some website, and the capital letters with numbers could be a password to that same website.

It could also be authentication information (or decryption passwords) to some software he might be running on his computer where he may have his private keys stored.

As BurtW has mentioned, if your friend was a bitcointalk.org member, he may have participated in some discussions that would shed light on what the information on that paper represents.

Was the information on the paper printed with an inkjet printer, or was it hand written?
member
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I would recommend first trying to get access to his email account.  That will allow you to see what services he had user accounts on, and if he was subscribed to any software mailing lists.  He also may have sent himself a copy of the encrypted wallet.  Check in the Sent and Drafts folders.  Also check Google Drive/Dropbox/Box.com/etc.  See if he had any backup software running on his computer that might have a copy of the wallet file online.

I know you said he mentioned cold storage, but there's cold and then there's cold-ish, and I'm guessing most people actually do cold-ish and keep an encrypted backup file somewhere.

P.S. You said you're offering 4 BTC.  Do you know about how much he has in the wallet?  In could be easily be less than that.

Edit: Also, are you sure it's stored as Bitcoins?  Was he into altcoins at all?  If he was into NXT it could be a NXT password (being on two lines would be weird though).
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