Topic: How I Lost $1500 Worth of BitCoins (Read 2704 times)

You should be able to sell all of them. I don't see why not? Who's going to freeze your accounts? ?? Btw, congrats on retrieving $100k

I sold about 10K worth through various channels.  But with what I had in accounts I already knew about, I am still at ~705 or so.  Honestly, because I am not KYC/AML certified at any exchange, I was afraid to sell and trigger account freezes, or to be honest, I would have sold a lot more.

So in that sense, Im relieved I couldnt, or I may have.  At one point, I just want to sell the 800 or so for 100K cash and call it day.  Glad I didnt.
Im now going to try and re-buy... Ive never actually "bought" a coin.. but now, I think I am in the game.

I felt sick reading this. I'm so sorry

I never use passwords

I only have one passphrase inside KeePass and it seems like I lost the one I overwrote it with. 

Sorry to come onto the end of your post but I am desperate, and I am in a similar predicament as you and hoping someone is able to HELP me please.

I have my own PC, its tweak the way I like it, very v fast and I have warned my Bro off it so many times. Bitcoins I've been following more or less from the start, lack of cash has prevented my making any serious cash but I understand its not just about that.

Well after using an online Wallet that's just announced its pulling the site as its been compromised, thankfully I just used the site this once and for a short stay with my Btc's which I sent to my Tablets Wallet, never really been that keen on the Tablets Wallet, and have been looking ages for 1 that I like, and at last I found what I classed as my perfect Wallet in Electrum.

I downloaded it, installed, and in meantime went and got myself a beer, came back to it up and running, Wow I thought, I like this. So I played around for a couple o minutes to familiarize myself with it, and Yes I thought, this is the 1 I'll use, so I scan the Wallets Addy with tablet and send them to Electrum Wallet without thinking, and Duh, the bombshell dropped as soon as I sent: I didn't recall getting the option to create a password or select a server on installing it etc.

And then it dawned on me, why did I not get this freaking option... and after 20 mins or so trying to guess its password etc. I stroll into my Bro's room asking him if he's used my PC lately, "not for a few months he added" So after a couple of slaps I got him to admit that he'd used my PC when sourcing a Wallet for himself. Turns out he'd already tried Electrum but had uninstalled; So when I came to install it, not realizing its for the 2nd time, obviously its defaulted to 1st install for passwords and seeds etc and now my bugger of a Bro cannot remember ANY of the info he entered, so I'm stuck with a nice Electrum software that is goner be my Wallet, showing just over 5 Bitcoins in and cannot retrieve them in anyway as I don't know the password.

Please if anyone can help and show me a way I can get around this. I'm so broke atm and selling these coins would make a big difference as you can imagine (I'm was hoping to put the cash towards our mums medical bills). I've thumped my Bro enough and I do also take a little responsibility for it, I should have been more alert when installing it

many many thanks in advance
regards Oinky

Good for you, congrats. How did you do it? Feel free to tip if my advice above helped you

I f'ing got it.  I F'ING GOT IT.  Now, I just want to cash out and run for the hills.....

Hey guys,

I am running Bitcoin-qt on Windows 7.

About a week ago I purchased around $1500 worth of Bitcoin and withdrew it into my freshly downloaded Bitcoin client.   I decide to protect it with a passphrase, so I open up KeePass, a password database I use often and generate a secure password and encrypt my wallet with it.   5 Minutes later, I decided to change the passphrase with a more secure passphrase (not sure why), so I generate a 128 bit secure password, change the passphrase on my wallet file, and overwrite the passphrase saved in KeePass earlier.  I save the KeePass database and to be extra safe, I back up the database to an external drive, as well as my wallet file.

Fast forward to yesterday. I had to restart my computer for some reason.  Prior to this everything was working fine, and my passphrase from KeePass worked.  Today is the first time I try sending coins since restarting my computer, I go to enter the passphrase saved in my KeePass database, and boom, it tells me I'm using an incorrect passphrase.  You can imagine the feeling in the pit of my stomach.    I tried restoring the backups and nothing works.  I see no reason this should have happened since I saved the passphrase inside KeePass.   I could see if I had forgot to save the new passphrase in KeePass but I honestly believe I saved it.

So, I guess I lost $1500 worth of Bitcoin.  I only have one passphrase inside KeePass and it seems like I lost the one I overwrote it with.   I tried all my backups and nothing works.   Worst feeling ever.   If anyone can successfully provide advice on how to get them back I will give them some BTC.   My skype is media504

I f'ing got it.  I F'ING GOT IT.  Now, I just want to cash out and run for the hills.....

I f'ing got it.  I F'ING GOT IT.  Now, I just want to cash out and run for the hills.....