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Quote from: Romoe on March 19, 2023, 03:46:29 AM

Contact me up on Telegram

I would be extremely wary of a brand new account with no history here asking you to contact them privately. He might be perfectly legit, but this is also exactly what a scammer would ask you to do.

I have already offered to help him create a tokens file for btcrecover in public in this thread, which is a far safer option than talking to anyone in private, me included, but especially a newbie account.

If OP is wary about downloading btcrecover, then he can review the source code here (https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover/) and can also do it on an airgapped computer so there is no way it could steal his wallet file.

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Quote from: pffffffff on March 13, 2023, 10:10:14 AM

Well, I did my best, I stopped trying a long time ago. It's basically just a file for me at this point. If people say they can crack it in half an hour, okay, no problem, but I'm not going to click any links or send anything up front.

I understand, but you have one of the most trusted and reputable member of this community who offer his help for free.
If you are ready to give up, why aren't you ready to be assisted / helped by a trusted person ?

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on February 04, 2023, 06:17:31 AM

Trying individual dates like this or asking relatives for any meaningful dates is utterly pointless. You will spend far longer doing this, with a far lower chance of success, than simply setting up btcrecover. Even if you want to expand the search range to every single day +/- 5000 years from today, then you can exhaust that space in half an hour for a single date format using btcrecover.

I've even offered to set up the tokens file or even try cracking it myself for free. If OP still just tries randomly guessing individual dates manually, then he's really got no one to blame but himself.

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Quote from: pffffffff on March 12, 2023, 07:16:32 AM

Well, I did my best, I stopped trying a long time ago. It's basically just a file for me at this point. If people say they can crack it in half an hour, okay, no problem, but I'm not going to click any links or send anything up front.

You can totally do this on your own, Just read these instructions[https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/TUTORIAL/#installation] for btcrecover carefully.
First, create your own list of passwords in a text file. You only need to test 365 keys for one year, and only 365 x 50 for fifty years. Then, change those passwords to different formats, like DDMMYYYY, DDMMYY, DD/MM/YYYY, DD-MM-YYYY or other format, and repeat the process. I can help you create those password lists in a text file or guide you step-by-step. Don't worry, there won't be any links to click on, and you won't need to send me anything upfront. Contact me up on Telegram at @Panadawn

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Quote from: paid2 on March 12, 2023, 10:52:48 AM

Quote from: pffffffff on March 12, 2023, 07:16:32 AM

I wonder do people actually buy this kind of wallets or all those posts are just scams?

What you mean ? What is the link between with your topic and bought wallet.dat files ?

Well, I did my best, I stopped trying a long time ago. It's basically just a file for me at this point. If people say they can crack it in half an hour, okay, no problem, but I'm not going to click any links or send anything up front.

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Quote from: pffffffff on March 12, 2023, 07:16:32 AM

I wonder do people actually buy this kind of wallets or all those posts are just scams?

What you mean ? What is the link between with your topic and bought wallet.dat files ?

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I wonder do people actually buy this kind of wallets or all those posts are just scams?

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Trying individual dates like this or asking relatives for any meaningful dates is utterly pointless. You will spend far longer doing this, with a far lower chance of success, than simply setting up btcrecover. Even if you want to expand the search range to every single day +/- 5000 years from today, then you can exhaust that space in half an hour for a single date format using btcrecover.

I've even offered to set up the tokens file or even try cracking it myself for free. If OP still just tries randomly guessing individual dates manually, then he's really got no one to blame but himself.

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OP have you tried asking for THE DATE some other relatives (your mom for example).

Perhaps they could guide you into finding an important date that you miss.

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Does it really say that? THE DATE?
Have you tried some obvious things like your dad's birthday, the day you were born, the day you turned 18, your graduation date, your parent's marriage anniversary, or any other dates you know about and obviously your father thinks you should know about, hence the hint? The day he bought you something special, when he got his first grandchild, etc.

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Quote from: pffffffff on January 26, 2023, 04:45:17 PM

I've checked out btcrecover but it's way out of my league

There is a pretty straightforward installation guide here: https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/INSTALL/. Setting up the tokensfile itself will be the trickiest part, but we can help you to do that. I would suggest you give it a try. Once set up you will be able to check thousands of passwords a second, far more efficient than anything you are trying manually.

Or as bnbstorm says, you can extract the bare minimum information from your wallet.dat file using the instructions here (https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Extract_Scripts/), and then share that extracted file with someone else who can attempt to crack the password for you without any risk to your coins. I can give it a shot for you if you want.

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Quote from: pffffffff on January 26, 2023, 04:45:17 PM

Hey guys, no luck

The problem is I didn't make any plan and tried so many I actually don't remember which ones

I've also spent too much time thinking it's some kind of puzzle but it definitely doesn't look like one

I've checked out btcrecover but it's way out of my league

There are ways to generate hash of your wallet.dat file and ask others to find password for you. If they successfully find password then you can share some rewards with them. You can ask more about it by asking for help in this forum.

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Hey guys, no luck

The problem is I didn't make any plan and tried so many I actually don't remember which ones

I've also spent too much time thinking it's some kind of puzzle but it definitely doesn't look like one

I've checked out btcrecover but it's way out of my league

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Quote from: Fivestar4everMVP on January 25, 2023, 03:30:15 PM

I think this is another reason why we all must learn to carry our family along in our bitcoin activities, I searched the wallet address shared in the OP and 10 bitcoin sitting there since 6 years ago, I want to believe that the father to the OP have passed away probably without the family knowing that he such amount of money in bitcoin, as well as in bitcoin cash, now his son(in the person of OP) is left with no choice but to find a way to get into wallet, otherwise, those bitcoins(and what's ever its worth be now and in the future) will remain there forever.

@OP, this might be a lame suggestion but from the explorer, i saw that the 10 bitcoins currently in the wallet was received on the 5th of May, 2016, if you haven't already, maybe you can try that and see if it works..

Goodluck all the same.

This is good suggestion but wallet was created before receiving coins so most probably date will be different from this one.
I want to add there is no guarantee that date is from past. It can also be a future date. So OP should try some future years as well. Maybe your father thought to gave you or your siblings wallet on any of your specific birthday etc.

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I think this is another reason why we all must learn to carry our family along in our bitcoin activities, I searched the wallet address shared in the OP and 10 bitcoin sitting there since 6 years ago, I want to believe that the father to the OP have passed away probably without the family knowing that he such amount of money in bitcoin, as well as in bitcoin cash, now his son(in the person of OP) is left with no choice but to find a way to get into wallet, otherwise, those bitcoins(and what's ever its worth be now and in the future) will remain there forever.

@OP, this might be a lame suggestion but from the explorer, i saw that the 10 bitcoins currently in the wallet was received on the 5th of May, 2016, if you haven't already, maybe you can try that and see if it works..

Goodluck all the same.

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I would just like to add here that do not share your dat file with anyone. There will many people try to connect you and help you guess password but they are all scams. Do no trust anyone. Learn stuff yourself and try to brute-force. Try other data of your father and study his pattern. You got plenty of time.

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Quote from: paid2 on January 21, 2023, 08:01:10 AM

So even a date could be hardcore to find

As I said above, with reasonable hardware and a correctly configured tokens file, btcrecover will be able to try every date from the last 100 years in one specific format in around 30 seconds. So even if you come up with multiple different ways to write out the date, this is trivial to brute force, provided it is just a date and nothing else.

Let's say you have "two thousand nine" and "two thousand and nine" for the year. 2 possibilities. For the day/month, you could have "January first", "January the first", "First January", or "First of January". 4 possibilities. You could put the year first, or the day/month first. 2 possibilities. 2*4*2 = 16, meaning you can try every date in the last 100 years with every combination of those possibilities in 8 minutes.

Even if you come up with 500 different possible formats to write the date, you can brute force them all in a few hours.

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Quote from: Alicatraz on January 20, 2023, 09:28:20 PM

if i were u i would not even post the address here , BTC recover or Hashcat can easily guess the password if it is just numbers and if the length of the password is known , whatever you do , do not share the Wallet.dat file with anyone , best of luck

I agree with the idea but we never know.

For example, if a write "01/01/2009" in my native language and using only letters it would be :

"Premier janvier deux mille neuf"

So even a date could be hardcore to find

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if i were u i would not even post the address here , BTC recover or Hashcat can easily guess the password if it is just numbers and if the length of the password is known , whatever you do , do not share the Wallet.dat file with anyone , best of luck

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Quote from: pffffffff on January 10, 2023, 02:30:38 PM

So this was my father's bitcointalk account. There's also wallet.dat and a text file:

bitcoin.org
bitcointalk.org
The password is THE DATE
13zEUPdpCDT3JGqv4o61vXQpgWWdxMEZeX

The coins are still there. I guess I can try some dates

I've never used the old Bitcoin client. What do I do?

I don't see any reason in trying to guess the date. Just run the brute-forcing software/script an configure it to use numbers only. As there are only 10 numbers: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 such passwords are considered unsafe and can be brute-forced easily.

P.S. What happened to your father? Is he alive? Huh

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Quote from: pffffffff on January 10, 2023, 02:30:38 PM

So this was my father's bitcointalk account. There's also wallet.dat and a text file:

bitcoin.org
bitcointalk.org
The password is THE DATE
13zEUPdpCDT3JGqv4o61vXQpgWWdxMEZeX

The coins are still there. I guess I can try some dates

Did you maybe try the date your father registered on this forum? Given that the text file contains the name of this forum, it may be about that date.

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