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Topic: Man lost 10.000.000$ password (Read 4354 times)

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November 28, 2013, 08:21:48 AM
#32
I also operate a password recovery service. Indeed you don't need to risk any money - to discover and validate a password only requires empty Bitcoin addresses from the wallet.

If this is not a scam the person should be able to go back to the exchange where they bought their coins and get a screenshot of the transaction history. Of course you can fake that but it'd help provide some substance to the claim.
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Bitstamp trader
November 28, 2013, 08:02:29 AM
#31
fake

without blockchain.info link of the address it really looks like a fake
newbie
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November 28, 2013, 03:50:56 AM
#30
The answer will be found in the future
sr. member
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November 28, 2013, 01:48:59 AM
#29
fake
legendary
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November 28, 2013, 01:44:39 AM
#28
that would be depressing.

LOL no kidding!   Grin
sr. member
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November 27, 2013, 10:56:04 PM
#27
I have the password. How do I get the reward?
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November 27, 2013, 06:59:48 PM
#26
idiot.
legendary
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diamond-handed zealot
November 27, 2013, 06:22:33 PM
#25
any wallet could have been manually encrypted with PGP no?
legendary
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November 27, 2013, 06:17:18 PM
#24
Wallets didn't have password protection 4 years ago.

Pure win.

Not so fast.  Fairly ancient wallets seem to load fine into the modern codebase.  Seems possible that an older wallet could be encrypted in anything past 0.4.  I've not tried it though since I think that encrypting wallets using bitcoin-qt is stupid in a lot of cases.  In fact, I've never even run anything but straight bitcoind.

OTOH, it seems equally or more likely that the whole $10M loss is a sham story.

legendary
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November 27, 2013, 06:09:57 PM
#23
He could just offer a reward from the £4.2m in BTC on there. He doesn't need to pay upfront.
You're right.
I'd make a generous offer of $100k or more if it's found and wallet works.
sr. member
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November 27, 2013, 05:37:13 PM
#22
Wallets didn't have password protection 4 years ago.
newbie
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November 27, 2013, 05:26:35 PM
#21
What about the guy that threw his HDD with 7600 coins and is now digging through dirt to find it?
I doubt that he will find it though. From what I've read he has no money to get people to find it for him either.

He could just offer a reward from the £4.2m in BTC on there. He doesn't need to pay upfront.
legendary
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November 27, 2013, 05:16:49 PM
#20
What about the guy that threw his HDD with 7600 coins and is now digging through dirt to find it?
I doubt that he will find it though. From what I've read he has no money to get people to find it for him either.
legendary
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Reverse engineer from time to time
November 27, 2013, 05:07:18 PM
#19
What about the guy that threw his HDD with 7600 coins and is now digging through dirt to find it?
legendary
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diamond-handed zealot
November 27, 2013, 05:06:58 PM
#18
the guy at walletrecoveryservices.com has a pretty good track record

he takes all the info the user can remember about the passphrase and starts bruteforce from there, I believe his fee is 15%
15% of 10M?  Roll Eyes

for a service with a track record of not running off with people's money?  sure

8.5M > 0.00
legendary
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November 27, 2013, 05:04:46 PM
#17
the guy at walletrecoveryservices.com has a pretty good track record

he takes all the info the user can remember about the passphrase and starts bruteforce from there, I believe his fee is 15%
15% of 10M?  Roll Eyes
legendary
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diamond-handed zealot
November 27, 2013, 05:02:26 PM
#16
the guy at walletrecoveryservices.com has a pretty good track record

he takes all the info the user can remember about the passphrase and starts bruteforce from there, I believe his fee is 15%
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Cuddling, censored, unicorn-shaped troll.
November 27, 2013, 05:00:00 PM
#15
He will most likely send a wallet.exe file to anyone who asks, saying it's an auto-extractible zip file. Grin
sr. member
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November 27, 2013, 04:29:22 PM
#14
Woohoo! This makes my bitcoins more valuable!
newbie
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November 27, 2013, 04:14:03 PM
#13
Hope he gets it back :/
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