Topic: Macbook stolen in 2010! 1200 BTC on it! HELP! (Read 6590 times)

That ... is actually a really good idea.  If you can get the MAC interface address from Apple or somebody, that's built directly into the network hardware of the machine.  And on Macbooks, you can't change the network hardware out, because it's built straight onto the motherboard.  So if there's a macbook somewhere on the network that's using that MAC interface, then it's the one. 

Problem with that is, if it's on the network, that means it's IN USE, presumably has been for three and a half years, and the odds are whatever was on its hard drive has been cleared out to make room for somebody's porno collection.

This is about a one-in-five for finding your macbook, which is better than I'd have ever guessed you could do.  But it's still less than one-in-a-thousand for getting your bitcoins back.

You got the serial number and maybe could the MAC address be found from serial number?
Then can some service locate that MAC address?
It may have 2 MAC one for LAN and one for wireless.

Only realistic chance is if you backed up your wallet. I'm guessing your macbook changed several hands. Also, why is this in "Scam accusations"?

Checked every cloudstorage I have, I found the right resources to work towards recovering the computer. Thanks for all the POSITIVE input! All the negativity can keep on trolling !

What the hell is so silly about trading WOW Gold for Bitcoins back when they were worthless and having a Macbook stolen that I find out has a wallet on it. People are retarded, Doesnt matter, if I recover the funds I will personally pick out each individual that contributed without being a fail troll and donate to them =) I might do that regardless just to show people how they SHOULD act.

Pretty sad story 

Whether you can recover them from your Macbook doesn't matter if you can't get your Macbook back.   Worry about that if you get it back, which is of course very unlikely, bordering on impossible.

If you backed the wallet.dat file up somewhere, then just go get it and enjoy your $ and don't worry about your Macbook.

4 years ago? I'm pretty sure you won't be seeing that Mac any more.

good luck！

How much were those BTC worth back then? That is the value that you lost.

You could have cheaply replaced the coins back then, but you did not.

Nice try OP but as you can clearly see most of us here are cynical about your story, including me. You lack the proper evidence that would prove your story to be true and most of us aren't complete idiots.

OP: you are either trolling, mentally challenged or you are simply trying to steal some Bitcoins that do not belong to you.

I personally believe it is the latter.

Yeah he's all over the place and keeps adding details every time someone questions why he waited so long.

wow i'm from europe and I know what it means,  but you're just way too uneducated , and you made me laugh.
African American = black guy

And wtf OP your friends stole your laptop and you're just okay with it? the fuck's the matter with you?

And his room-mate - who must have been around years ago to be aware that the laptop had a wallet on it which contained 1200 BTC - hasn't mentioned it at all in the past few years as the price of BTC has risen despite the fact that the room-mate presumably wasn't in a Xanax-induced haze following a car accident.

Of course it would make a little bit more sense (although not much more) if the room-mate did, indeed, pay for the BTC and is now resentful that he's missing out on a potentially big pay day (his own fault for not having control of the wallet himself, if that's the case).

LOL that you are pretty much buds with the guy who admits to stealing your laptop. You must be the biggest bitch in the world for someone to tell you to your face they stole your shit.

Obv this is 100% fake though.

As many have stated, the hard truth is that the chances are extremely slim.  It sounds like the possibility of cloud storage is off the table, so the only two chances are:

1) Thief goes to Apple store for repair and it's flagged stolen
2) You physically track the individual

You had also asked if recovery is possible in the event that you recover the laptop and the drive was wiped.  While theoretically possible, realistically it's unlikely.  If the computer has never touched the hands of someone technologically capable, then perhaps it was never wiped, but obviously just finding the computer is your first hurdle.

He's got a negative trust rating.  His profile says "founder : CyberDonate".

There's a user new user called CyberDonate who is probably the same person (Trance's profile and CyberDonate's posts both reference Sean's Outpost).

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/cyberdonate-223942

There's a CyberDonate blog (goes back to 2010) and also a CyberDonate Twitter

Want to expand on your relationship to CyberDonate, Trance?

Good luck getting your coins back dude!

You have been living in a Trance, good luck.

Some dude boots up a macbook he got for $200 and finds a bitcoin wallet on it......reads headlines about the price of bitcoin.......1+1=BTC rich

You actually got the very best advice possible if your situation is genuine. It's more telling about your own character that you can't even be grateful for that.

You only got a healthy dose of mistrust and mockery because your tale is both suspicious and silly.

Still, if it helps you live with yourself to blame it on the mean bitcointalk people…

What a disaster, posting on the forums for assistance only gets you negative feedback! Shows the integrity of the Bitcoin speculators

Of course it is.  Must be all that Xanax which makes the OP think his story is plausible.

It's far more likely that he's become aware that someone else had 1200 BTC on a Macbook they lost/sold/had stolen in 2010 and wants to try to recover the Macbook because he realises what they're potentially worth and the person who owned the Macbook doesn't (after all, they weren't worth much in 2010 and lots of people abandoned BTC altogether back then - people even lost interest and deleted their wallets).

This is some bullshit scam attempt to acquire coins that belong to somebody else. Trance, where's your 2010 account? Lemme guess, you lost the password?

If you think that a drug dealer who accepted a Macbook in exchange for drugs over 3 years ago would still have it you're as deluded as the OP.  Drug dealers accept so many electronic goods as payment that he's not even going to remember who he sold/gave that particular Macbook to even if OP can locate him.

The police aren't going to care about a 3 year old theft either.  Any story the OP tells them about why he's suddenly interested in trying to recover property he did nothing about recovering at the time it was "stolen" is going to sound suspicious, not that the police have the resources to investigate every minor property theft anyway, even if it's reported immediately (normally the main reason for even reporting it is so you can claim it on insurance).

Apple's not going to get involved.  If you didn't report the Macbook as stolen in 2010 then you have no way to prove that you didn't sell it yourself.

I agree with other posters.  OP sounds a lot more like someone who's looking for advice about how to get his hands on something belonging to someone else than someone trying to recover his own property.  Xanax doesn't make you lose your memory for 3 fucking years.

lol

Obvious troll. If you weren`t a troll you would have listened to the advice about the cloud service.

Well, it got some lols

dude it's long gone, keep fucking dreaming.. you ain't getting rich overnight you missed that chance

If it were me, I would spend the rest of my life tracking down this black drug dealer dude. He's probably sold it to someone else along the way, but you know, money talks. Grease the palms of a few people and maybe you'll get the info you'll need. And don't tell them it's for the bitcoins, give them a sob story about the car accident and priceless family photos, etc.

Once you have it back, try a recovery service, and if you're lucky, it might just work.

I dont think anyone believing me has anything to do with giving advice towards how one can go about recovering a Macbook~

Just believe that I DO NEED this Macbook back and EVERYONE here can benefit from the recovery of this Macbook!

If you had Mobile Me and Back To Mac (pre iCloud which started in Oct 2011) turned on and know the appleid then there could be a slight chance it is still connected. Very slight, but it is worth a try.  Likewise, if you had any type of time machine backup set and the wallet.dat file was backed-up, look there.

Your best bet is to figure out what cloud storage service you used, the password etc. and check there.  Likewise, if you have a time capsule or other time machine backup, check those.  Also, if you did have any of the old MobileMe features on, see if they are still active.

If none of those, you'll have to find the machine and hope that it hasn't been formatted IF you can even find it.

I don't think you are getting that Macbook back if you ask me. Truth is even if you got it back that data is most likely long gone, I know I would wipe a laptop if I bought it from anyone. Then again that is me. Those coins are most likely lost and you will never see them again. Sorry for telling you this. You can try to track it, find who they have sold it to and go from there, but I doubt it will get you far and you will just spend money and time chasing something that is gone. If you do go to police tell them the truth, no need to lie there.

if you know who stole the notebook, try tracking them and the person they gave it too. also go through gmail for cloud storage registration confirmations prior to that event, although i'm not sure how can you be not sure whether you stored it at cloud or not.

Not possible to get back I am afraid.

Question: how did you get 1200 btc back in 2010 to begin with, were you mining already?

Well it needed to be set up beforehand:

http://www.macworld.com/article/2028403/dont-get-apple-picked-how-to-protect-your-mac-from-theft-in-public-places.html

Wow 2010 ??

Oh wow this is exactly what I'm talking about, how do i do this???

At DEFCON someone spoke about how they caught someone that stole their Macbook (but this was a server!) mine is a personal computer for school~

Everyone's asking why so late, after years and years, well because I had much more going on and it was not brought to my attention until today.

Here are some reasons WHY i was missing in action..

Not sure wtf me showing authenticity of my story has to do with someone giving me tips on how to recover this Macbook :\ but if that helps.. good.

They are rappers who have lots of gold chains and stacks of banknotes and drive big cars with slutty white women in the back. This I learned from television.

I heard about that. This is what you're talking about:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393117/Thief-caught-Hidden-app-victim-remotely-controls-MacBook.html

My bad, only read the first page-ish.

Yeah I'm trolling ... that would not even be fun and it would make me look VERY stupid, regardless, I feel stupid and look even stupider. At least one person gave me a website that I can start with in regards to recovery, I was hoping someone can use my Macbooks serial number and info in the box that the purchase came with to track the location of the Macbook. Only a few private messages and each is asking the names of the cloud storage, I'll just delete the post after a day to see if anyone has had a similar situation, I would sleep better knowing the Macbook was either destroyed or that someone made use of the coins.. otherwise this just sucks and I feel utterly retarded but its not my fault I was hit by a car and went MIA for awhile :\ xanax really messes up ones memory!

Ive bookmarked this for further review~

So nobody knows if Apple can somehow track my Macbook? I've read about customers that have tracked their own Mac's (but only when they Mac was being used a server and they had remote access already existing)

I am starting to believe OP may be trolling. Elementary questions are being asked, to which the answer is quite obvious.

No. Not if it's been overwritten. Even if the file has been deleted, subsequent use will overwrite those free blocks with new files. In a timespan of more than three years the chance seems tiny, and that is assuming you ever locate the laptop again, which seems frankly ridiculous.

Your best bet is the cloud storage.

It's more than enough lolz for some permavirgin troll to start a thread as stupid as this and then after some amount of posts have been accumulated go, "HAHA OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I TROLLED U ALL SO BAD" and show the link to all of his permavirgin friend.

It happens every day.

I don't currently believe you myself, but it doesn't invalidate anything I've said.

OP is either trolling or he is looking for something that belongs to someone else. The way he brings this up, the fact that he is a regular poster (and all of a sudden wakes up from his comma) all point towards these directions.

Cool, you didn't even bother to read the thread.

It was brought to my attention TODAY..

I was in an accident that same year, broke both legs, both ankles, left foot, right arm and wrist, became hooked on substances and laid in bedrest playing World Of Warcraft, hence having an account worth $7000+ with 300+ days played time

REGARDLESS.. I hate this speculation bullshit, but thats life..

If who ever has my Macbook wiped my HDD is there anyway the coins can still be retrieved

Sorry for being stressed out and coming off as a jerk.. my own father does not believe me entirely, not sure wtf one may think I'm up to here... he personally thinks I just know of a Macbook that has 1200 coins stored on it but just found out. Which makes nose sense considering the Macbook im searching for is the one I purchased and the one I had stolen from me.

I am an Euro American. In 2010 i was already, but not long ago is was just known as white.

http://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/

This site is pretty trusted and good at what they do.

The owner/people working there only take 5-10% of your wallet value when they recover it. Look there.

The owner was on reddit some time ago and helped a lot of people that same day recover some lost wallets.

OP it sounds like a lot is going through your mind right now, but I'm telling you your best chance at recovery will be the cloud storage you say you backed up a file to. Even if you're not sure it's there that will probably be a more fruitful search than a piece of hardware that disappeared 4 years ago.

You sound like my father half an hour ago when I brought this to his attention.. heh ...this f*cking sucks.

OP: the gift that keeps giving.

Because I had no clue I still had the BTC on the computer! If I had known I would have immediately went searching, I didnt follow BTC after my car accident later in 2010 and now a roomie brought this to my attention and I confirmed it, I wonder if I shared the information to my wallet in 2010 through World Of Warcraft's in game chat system, wonder if I can call Blizzard and pay them to see if I can obtain the key that way? I know they record everything!

Posts like these make me think 25% or more bitcoins which were mined are probably lost

So you admit it?

I hope you find your coins. But if not, thanks for the donation to everyone else given there is likely less Bitcoin in circulation due to that loss.

If the the files were just deleted and nothing new was written, then maybe. But given that this was more than 3 years ago, it's going to have been overwritten.

If it's been overwritten then no. No data recovery lab will agree to take the job on a "no find no fee" basis because there isn't going to be any of the original data left after it's been overwritten even once.

Your story also seems highly implausible but that doesn't really matter.

So you and your room mate both waited four years to decide it might be a good time to look for 1000+ bitcoins?

Either you people are insane, or this is all bullshit. I know which way I'm leaning.

If the macbook was stolen in 2010.
Why now?

Wow you seem more butthurt than myself today

Going through my Gmail account to try and find where this crap is at ! It might even be on a stupid photobucket to be honest ... this just sucks because now my roomie who brought this to my attention is claiming it was his $ that purchased the BTC, but that does not matter I just want to salvage this computer, if the drive was wiped is there a way to send it in to a forensics lab to retrieve old data to obtain the wallet??

"African American" is the currently accepted term for an American of African ancestry.  

It replaces "Negro" and "Black" and several other terms which were, evidently, used in a racist way often enough for the people to start to feel that those terms were in themselves insulting.  

I suppose, for some reason I'm unaware of, that the same fate might not befall "African American."  I sincerely hope that it doesn't anyway; I'm tired of retconning language every few years just because assholes keep right on being assholes when they adopt a new term along with the rest of the world.  But I've never yet seen a new term that can convince assholes to stop being assholes and loading whatever term they use with their own asshole sentiments, so I'm dubious about the process.

But we all know that's not true.

Not a speculation if you claim something to be true.

It really doesn't matter I just want to get my Macbook back because of a photo file of my grandmother LETS JUST SAY THATS what im trying to recover instead to stop the speculations

Good point. OP are you able to access the cloud storage where you say you stored the file?

So, why did you wait four years to make this thread?

So the files are not encrypted which means?

No point in finding the computer or whats the deal?

So I guess this makes BTC bullish?

Lots BTC = Donation to everyone else holding BTC.

Just like that guy who lost 7000 BTC in a computer sent to a landfill.

negative, but I was in a bad car accident in 2010 and was on bedrest for awhile and thought I traded the BTC for WoW GOLD ...(found out about BTC after i sold WOW Gold to someone in 2010 that mentioned BTC)

If you are for real i'll try helping out, free of charge btw.. Pm me

If he was using the standard client there was no encrypted wallet.dat back in 2010, trust me on this one.

simple.

you don't use "time machine".

you are a looser.





Think different.





(princeless)

idk anything besides the Macbooks information (serial number, box, receipt with date or purchase and a Police report when the Macbook was stolen in 2010)

Did you just wake from a coma as well?

Don't worry trance. I know personally all the drug dealing African Americans in St. Petersburg and I am sure I can convince him to give it back. Which one was it?

You need the wallet.dat file. The recovery services are to unencrypt the file. See here:

Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services - for forgotten wallet password

I'm from Europe.
What does it mean african American? What is it ?
It is American who is living in Africa or guy from Africa who is living in America ?
Anyway... You MacBook is gone forever.

2010...

What type of services??

How much and where do i start??

(TIPPING BTC FOR GOOD ADVICE-- Post address below!)

this person doesnt even know wtf the macbook has on it! besides my school work and garbage photos!

hes a black dude that sells drugs!.. the people that stole it from me told me hes black and in the Southside of St.pete and that hes known for taking stolen electronics as collateral for drugs and even as payment!

Im going to hang myself if I cant figure this out!

I've read stories about hackers finding their mac's before hacking into their computers and keylogging them and finding the person via usernames and passwords to gmail accounts and so forth (IP addresses etc)

I actually have a listing on Craigslist with my Macs information with a $500 reward for anyone who claims it (before I found out a year later who actually stole it, i thought I just left it and had it randomly stolen, now that I know who actually stole it, makes things a bit easier, narrows down the location to St.Petersburg Florida, where I live, will the FBI help me at all? since it's such a large sum of money, should I not mention the money aspect of it all???)

FMLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Don't say the name of the cloud storage here, but you don't need the laptop if the wallet.dat file is stored in the cloud.

All you need is access to the wallet.dat file, and the passphrase to unencrypt it if it's encrypted. There are Bitcoin recovery services that may be able to help you unencrypt a file where you're unsure of the passphrase but have an idea what it is. Again, you don't need the laptop. You only need the wallet.dat file.

Sorry buddy but your coins are gone

two things are possible.

1.  You have a backup of your wallet.dat

2.  You have lost your bitcoins.

There is no third thing that is possible.

wow

It would be difficult to get back.

Do you know the public key?

Maybe the money has been spent.

I got my Macbook stolen by two acquaintances in late 2010 in Tampa Florida, I was living in Gainesville at the time for my first year of school.

I know who stole it and he told me they traded the macbook for drugs to some african American in the Southside of St.Petersburg, Florida (where i currently reside)

I have 1200 BTC stored on the computer, I have the purchase receipt, police report, ALL serial numbers and even the box that the Macbook came in!

SOMEONE PLEASE tell me what steps I should take in regards to recovering my Macbook, this is now worth $894,000 ***

I'm willing to split this with anyone who is willing to work with me!

I do not want to give out ALL the computers information incase someone finds the computer before me and pays the person $$$ to get it back

ALSO if he wiped the drive, are ALL the BTCitcoins GONE?

I have no other information besides its stored on paper file on the computer! I also think i have the information to a cloud storage that I stored that file in as well!

I'm going nuts....someone help!

PST for my phone number or email if you are serious about helping me recover, I'm going to the Police again Monday, but should i use a cover up story instead of saying its for Bitcoins???



God help me!


**IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM AM I ASKING FOR MONEY IN ORDER TO RETRIEVE MY DATA~ for all those attempting to hurt my rep to scare people away from thinking the computer is not mine, which i have receipt purchase proof and box etc, I'm simply trying to get in touch wit the proper resources to RECOVER MY Macbook or just the data (most significant)