Topic: HUGE PROBLEM, LOST MASSIVE AMOUNT OF BTC. 100 BTC is Reward - page 2. (Read 877 times)

I would post in r/bitcoin as well, you posted in r/btc which is more focused on bitcoin cash.

Be careful with newbies with 0 trust saying they are reliable.

I am not saying that this guy isn't, but don't trust your files or download anything from random new created accounts here. Just to be safe

If you are reliable, then please repeat same what we did on youtube (on same bitcoin core version), put there 0.01btc and get it back. With results please share me directly. I think it's about everyone who are looking for reward.

I am a computer engineer, i can give a check... and see if it is possible to restore something.
I’m one of the developer of xdag coin and i did a lot escrows services for that coin (at least one shot worth 50k$, but a lot of 20k$ each). So i think that i’m reliable, if interested you can send me a PM and i’ll show you more references, if you need.
Cheers
Marco.

Yes, that's my purpose, to crack others wallet... Reddit is already on main page of btc page.. Really everyone joined to help. It's nice feeling. I think most of the answers for any question u find already there.. Maybe let's write only solutions here.

So, if I understand correctly from the YouTube video and your comments on Reddit... the entire situation came about because:

- Bitcoin Core was open and running with your "$$$" wallet.dat loaded
- You renamed the "$$$" wallet.dat file to otherwalletname.dat
- You shutdown Bitcoin Core
- You then tried to rename otherwalletname.dat to wallet.dat
- You tried to start Bitcoin Core
- You got error message... and wallet.dat was "gone" and you had a "wallet.TIMESTAMP.bak" file
- You renamed wallet.TIMESTAMP.bak back to wallet.dat
- You tried to restart Bitcoin Core
- It then deleted wallet.dat and started up as normal
- After startup it then generated a completely new wallet.dat

Looking at the version of Bitcoin Core, it is generating NON-HD wallets... so it is relatively old version.

Finally, all of this happened 2 years ago... and you have made images of the hdd and tried various file recovery programs to recover the wallet.dat

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Regardless... Unfortunately, it would appear that your chances of recovery are very very small... given old historical threads/post like these:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14114115
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14114782

Where a user in EXACTLY the same situation has suffered complete wallet loss after renaming a wallet.dat... then renaming the wallet.TIMESTAMP.bak file...

It would seem that the underlying Berkeley DB libraries did "Bad Things"™ with corrupted files. Whether or not this still occurs in newer versions of Bitcoin Core, I can not confirm.

That is nuts.

I can't imagine how many bitcoins is in the wallet if your offering a reward of 100btc.

Why didn't you use a hardware wallet or atleast print the private keys or something so you could backup if your HD ever crashed.
This doesn't make much sense to me.
Unless you are trying to crack somebodies else's wallet.

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to accomplish. From your Reddit link, I read:
That doesn't sound like the wallet has been in use, and in your Youtube video I see several other (much bigger) wallets (walletdddd.dat for instance).
Can you be more thorough in  your explanation? Don't rush it, take your time, but try to be as complete as possible.

Check this thread > https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/overview-recover-bitcoin-from-any-old-storage-format-4959742

He will come to this thread as soon as he comes Online. He has a notification system every time someone mention his username.

I'm not tech guy, will ask our people. How this guy recovered bitcoins from old wallets?

BTW I can't find re to @LoyceV . Can you copy link to this thread?

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thanks

I think I know who can help in this situation, @LoyceV had a thread how to recover bitcoins from old wallets, I guess he can give a hand here.
Of course your case is a bit more complicated.
What type of HDD you have. Maybe something else failed in the system and not the HDD. Did you check the SMART status of the drive?

Hope you find a solution from the situation.

we tried that and didn't help

After deleting the old wallet.dat and put the new one, I think you need to run from the the command prompt the rescan option.

please check https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/a1kr9z/huge_problem_with_reward_100btc_serious/
there are many questions and answers.

If anyone has brilliant idea, please come up with it.

Now what you have the data backed up, start up Bitcoin Core with the -salvagewallet  option.   It will brutally go through the corrupted file and recover anything looking like a key.

bak file doesnt exist already. Only hex left. All other bak files are only "recovered", but seems it's not the same.

Send me the .bak file from private message and i will check it for you.

Hello,

exactly like in topic. I've lost a lot of bitcoins and looking for help. I was trying to solve it in past, couldn't.. Right now I want to come back to topic and make it happen somehow. Do anyone know how to solve this problem? Reward is 100BTC and this thread is completely serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOxflDzhgU&t=3s

Share with friends to make this topic loud.. You could help rescue massive amounts of bitcoins.

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PC is completely frozen. Nobody touch it and we have made image of all hard drive so it's safe. Our idea is to look for private keys through hex and we checked all PC length and breadth. There were found some bitcoins, but not that... I think private key to this wallet could be partially broken, but I'm not sure..