Topic: 5 BTC Reward**** Blockchain.info Alias Identifier (Read 895 times)

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but i'm just wanna bump this post
i know i can't help much,

He was talking about the old login option for blockchain.info, an "alias" instead of the WalletID.
Details are in the earlier replies.

Next time, please read some of the replies and the date when it was posted before replying.

alias identifier?
it's like url with unique name link? that not work now
last time i'm login to blockchain about 2 hours ago for sending a little payment for this forum (because contain evil)
by using identifier wallet, not using alias identifier,
did you remember when last time you login ?
maybe browser chrome saving your identifier wallet

Completely plausible, happens a lot more than you think... and always comes about when bitcoin is at the record breaking prices such as recently.

Best of luck OP, I imagine he's already regained access. Hope the coin was still sitting in there.

Do you still have the computer you've used back in 2013? If you do, search for wallet.aes.json file. It is an encrypted file that has your private and public keys, and you can restore your wallet with these keys. The file itself is encrypted with the password that you've created in blockchain.info, and the file can be decrypted with scripts that you can find online, like this one - https://gist.github.com/fcicq/3368495

That's the latest login page  
What he has is the "alias" which is different from the "wallet ID" (read the replies in page 1 to know what is it).

Or you've just pasted the wrong link?

Hi Matt
 They still have it pls check following link
https://login.blockchain.com/#/login

Hi Matt,

blockchain.info used their own mnemonic to save the wallet ID/identifier and password that was a sequence of 15-21 words. (They did not use 12 words until 2015/2016)

That sequence will include your login id and password. Maybe you can search for wallet.aes.json files on your drive (they did send out backup wallets in 2013) and or if you have any mail from support. Their email address back then was [email protected]

You can read about some steps we did in recovering a really old 2013 blockchain.info wallet like yours a week ago.

Link here: https://keychainx.medium.com/how-to-recover-blockchain-info-15-17-19-21-mnemonic-seed-8691cb59425

Don't answer to any PM you receive here, you will get 99% scammed.

/KX

Are you very technical?

I am not 100% sure, but it looks like you may be able to setup an install on linux an old version of blockchain that is hosted on github, it looks like it supports logging in using your alias and password to load you wallet.

https://github.com/blockchain/unused-My-Wallet  It seems to be hidden on thier github, but i found it through the web archive website.

I installed a copy on ubuntu but didnt have time to get by some https errors i was having, but from what i can tell there is a chance it could work.

If you are not technical, then whoever helps you could certainly run away with all of your coins.

I was going to PM you but it appears as though you blocked newbie accounts.  I had a bitcointalk account back in 2014 but it was locked after a breach and i just tried to get it re-activated today.

@Mattgillum Have you tried contacting someone from the support of blockchain.info? It seems that a user made a warning regarding the service using an alias - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/warning-about-blockchaininfo-wallet-aliases-1460080

Supposedly you could try to use your alias to gain access to your BTC provided you knew the password. I've just tried myself but I always landed on blockchain.com website.

Another user reported, around 2013, that trying the link using the previous mentioned trick wouldn't work and he was only able to access using the explicit wallet identifier - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/blockchaininfo-wallet-aliases-dont-work-anymore-320731

But, digging deeper in the forum I might have found something that could help you : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/blockchaininfo-my-wallet-insecure-alias-305625

Here's the important quote from someone that received a reply from the Support of Blockchain regarding regaining usage of their account :


Scroll down the post and you'll also see this :


If you are able to get some information that they ask (probably the alias and the IP address used) then you are on to get a Tesla (ahah). The last entry of the thread says that the user was able to recover his investment so perhaps you can as well

Let us know if you have any luck with it. Best of luck!

Please read carefully the OP statement cause theres no private keys and seed integration in the blockchain wallet when the OP created his wallet back in the year 2013. However, theres no cause for alarm for it something the OP can do by himself through https://login.blockchain.com/#/login or download the mobile version of the wallet click the sign in link and select manual pairing where he only needs the wallet ID and password to access the wallet.

https://www.territoriobitcoin.com/recuperar-una-wallet-no-hd-de-blockchain-info/

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Do you know what your private key is, or the seed? If the answer is yes, it is very easy to recover your BTC

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

It happened to me several times. In fact, I have a topic about it: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/royse777-reputation-happy-moments-read-before-being-hard-on-low-rank-accounts-5295408

Once a user sent me $65 worth of bitcoin for solving an issue. And the latest one was 0.015 BTC tip from a user who was able to recover 0.9+ BTC in his wallet. But none of the time I was not expecting anything.

Truth is - most probably all of us here are not sharing information with the hope of any reward. We just know that we are helping the bitcoin community. However, if something is coming up as a by product then nothing is wrong.

If you're talking about the reward-part: I just ignore that, and it's not necessary to get help on Bitcointalk anyway. From what I've seen, most of the time reward-promises aren't honored. But I have seen cases from happy users who did give a reward (usually without promising it first).

And yes, offering a $200,000 reward for an answer to an online question is rediculous If anything, it leads to the wrong answers from people who don't know what they're talking about.

I follow your scepticism, always be aware of things like these. They attract you in a way that you might lose some red flags while communicating.

One other possibility is that this person has created a new user account for hiding his/her/x identity.

I guess you're right about that. I don't have anything against topics like this. It could prove helpful to someone with a similar issue. I'm just saying that in cases like these, one should approach this with a great deal of caution. If it's too good to be true... But like I said, I'm probably too skeptical.

It would probably be helpful for the OP to mention what he's been trying to do so far. Has he contacted blockchain.com's customer support? Does he have private keys or backup phrases saved? Did he try to import them somewhere? It should not be overlooked that there is also a significant amount of forkcoins at these addresses.

I'd say that's quite plausible: Bitcointalk is still the place to go to for these kinds of things. I'd rather see a new user with a question about lost Bitcoin than thousands of new users spamming altcoin bounties.

Let's say for a moment that the OP is telling the truth and that it actually owns a forgotten wallet with a 100 BTC balance.
It's worth around $4 million at the current market! How plausible is it that someone will come to a public forum to create an account for the first time in hopes of finding the support they need?

I don't know, I may be too skeptical, but this kind of looks like a letter from a Nigerian prince. 

I've contacted the customer service and they said it's no problem as long as the OP has the password.


https://ibb.co/Px2rYPF
https://ibb.co/hFVch7K

He probability already got access to those coins. Good luck to the OP anyway.

You may be able to find it somewhere: some websites send an email with your IP address when you login, and many forums keep IP addresses with posts. You may be able to ask on some of the websites you've used.

Depends on what info they will ask, what matters the most is the alias.
But I don't get why a web archive of the login page can be a "solid evidence" since logging using the alias in the achieved page wont work.
Anyways, since the "Forgot Identifier" page archive is still saved, I saw an instruction there that may be (hopefully) relevant until today:

(Basically the same as post#3)

Don't they have a support? I mean, if you remember your alias identifier and password you can send them a message. I don't think that email would matter that much. If you successfully get your bitcoins back, which is difficult since these guys know what you have, don't dare to leave them 5 whole bitcoins. 

I went back in 2013, yep they had that option back then:



If you get the chance to talk to the support, show them this.

Blockchain.info has always been pretty bad but I don't think they were this bad!
The site should be saving the "hash of the password" not the password or encrypted password. Basically how it works is that the user enters their password in their browser, the browser creates the hash of it and sends that hash to the site where it is compared with their stored hash. If it matches it signs in and sends back the encrypted wallet then the user in their browser uses the password to decrypt the wallet using AES.

The old version seeds aren't BIP39 compliant.
All he can do with it (if he has a backup) is to use the legacy recovery page "forgot password" to get his (missing) wallet ID.

Some people were asked for wallet creation date, known used IP address(es) which IMO, not enough proof.
But since he'll just ask for the Wallet ID which is useless without the password, I guess blockchain(com) may consider.

Ah! yes you are correct. I did not have the encryption in mind. However, should we be surprised if years ago they did not use this encryption?

Anyway, again the case is messed up and the only way I see is the seed. I really hope the OP has the seed and he is reading it.

PS: There is one thing, if the identifier was everything at that time then even giving it to a customer support guy is risky. Once it is exposed to the customer support guy then the guy already know the wallet information. It's like giving your seed to someone else. I can't imagine how a company like blockchain.com has this kind of security system.

The case is messed up.
Mattgillum had the identifier and the password.

There could be one possibility to verify that he indeed is the owner of the identifier.

- Give them the identifier and last/first few characters of the password.

It's still risky because he has to trust the guy in the customer service for this. The best shot for him is by any chance if he has the 12/24 word seed then he can restore the wallet using Electrum. But he has to have the seed.

Two questions however first one is very important.

1. Have you ever saved a 12 word seed somewhere?
2. Do you have any address from that account.

If you have the 1st one then there is a hope for you. You can use these words and restore the using electrum but do not try it yourself if you do not know what you are doing. Careful about installing fake Electum.

The genuine version will be here always: https://electrum.org/#download
But still make sure you verify the downloaded Electrum exe file: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-verify-your-electrum-download/

Note: If you have the 12 word seed then do not share it with anyone. Your wallet will be compromised then and your coins will be stolen.

It is true that Blockchain.info have gone through so many updates, upgrades and developments. they bought .com domain and shifted there. they started supporting ethereum and some other altcoins.

but the main thing is it stilll logs in with Identifier and password. if you remember these 2 things then why don't you just use them to login?

let me know what is your problem exactly? do you have the 12 words recovery phrase?

you can ping me on telegram @atrizbtc we can try to figure it out together.

Wow, hope you can recover! I wish you good luck. Somehow I feel like I'm giving this info for free. Oh well, helping is kind.

I had the same issue a few years back. You mean you formerly had to login at http://blockchain.info/wallet/aliasgoeshere? And when you got there you had to enter a password correct? If that is the case, I believe you can easily recover the wallet because that was my issue. I had no email attached and so was stuck. The problem is that now you must login using the identifier, rather than an alias... and you don't know the identifier? Well, it is pretty easy so if this works, can you at least throw me something? It worked for me.

All you need to do is send a request via the page below. If you send them the alias, they will supply you with the identifier. If any of the account has any details in it, you may need to provide proof that it is you. A fantastic proof of ownership is the transaction id of any of the transactions you did or a wallet address. I assume you have some piece of info that can prove it is your alias. BE SURE to mention that you have the password (but obviously do not give it) That's all I had. The alias, the password, and a wallet address that I received coin through. Within a day or so, I got an email reply saying the account identifier for this alias is xxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx and from that I was easily able to sign in with my password. Wishing you the best!

https://support.blockchain.com/hc/en-us

If it works, help a poor guy out!
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Was just thinking, at the time this happened to me, I had about 3 btc and was selling them for a few hundred each.  Damn.  IDIOT!

You didn't set an email?
Then it will be troublesome to restore since you can't request for a Wallet ID reminder, too bad that it's now functional (I've just tested it).
How about the (random number of words) recovery phrase?

Also, it seems like they'd set the aliases of no-email accounts as "insecure" years ago: /index.php?topic=305625.msg3275271#msg3275271
Even if it's years ago, as the quoted email said, their customer service may help if you can provide enough proof of ownership (minus the password).

Hi Matt,

Wow such treasure there. I have no much idea to reach old version, does you try downloading blockchain with old version to recovery.
Or does you trying reach support blockchain to solve it?
Unfortunately security blockchain was changed to required 2fa email to allowed login.
So best suggest is, take a support blockchain might they could help you.

Goodluck!

Hello All,


     So I created a wallet in 2013 on blockchain.info which I deposited 100 BTC into. At the time Blockchain.info did not require an email address or any other type of identifying info. Blockchain.info used an alias identifier to recover the wallet ID. I was gone for 7 years and when I returned blockchain.info is now blockchain.com and noone there seems to know anything about an alias identifier. I still remember my alias identifier and my password. I am offering a 5 BTC reward (assuming I can find the missing BTC) for anyone who can help me obtain the wallet identifier.

Matt