Topic: thanks dave @ walletrecoveryservices (Read 1729 times)
Wow!! Man lucky for you.. Dave great work... You'll be in very demand now...
congrats on recovering your BTC 
Have fun with your refound hundreds of btc! You were very lucky you found them again!
Try reading before posting garbage. He only had 72 BTC in there.
you're the one posting garbage buddy.. no one said anything about 72 btc, ever. dave unlocked my whole wallet; which indeed had several hundred btc in it. i had just sent him a single addy with unspent coins; so he never had access to the whole thing.
Regarding your ruby scripts - no, I didn't use them, except for some reference info.
Cheers
Dave
I figured you would not have run them, but just looked in them for some notion of how I thought the password might have looked
Have fun with your refound hundreds of btc! You were very lucky you found them again!
Try reading before posting garbage. He only had 72 BTC in there.
"only" lol
Have fun with your refound hundreds of btc! You were very lucky you found them again!
Try reading before posting garbage. He only had 72 BTC in there.
I'm a programmer; I got into bitcoin in early 2011; and was smart enough to keep a sizeable stash (several hundred btc). When bitcoin started really going through the roof I spent a bunch of time 'protecting' that wallet with a long passphrase; and though I opened it several times, I waited like 4 months to get into it and when I tried, I couldn't get in. I tried and tried and tried.
I eventually wrote a naive cracker that tried about 5 million attempts in little bursts over the next couple months, never successful. I was getting ready to give up when I was referred to dave. I was hopeful but far from optimistic.
Within 72 hours of contacting dave; he had cracked a 50+ character password, with everything you are supposed to have: symbols, numbers, upper and lower case, words and random gibberish. He had the opportunity to steal, if he chose 57 btc from me worth at the time of writing something like ~34k usd. He didn't!
I obviously gave him the info needed; he wasn't acting blind.
Dave, you fucking rock.
I eventually wrote a naive cracker that tried about 5 million attempts in little bursts over the next couple months, never successful. I was getting ready to give up when I was referred to dave. I was hopeful but far from optimistic.
Within 72 hours of contacting dave; he had cracked a 50+ character password, with everything you are supposed to have: symbols, numbers, upper and lower case, words and random gibberish. He had the opportunity to steal, if he chose 57 btc from me worth at the time of writing something like ~34k usd. He didn't!
I obviously gave him the info needed; he wasn't acting blind.
Dave, you fucking rock.
I am very happy to have been able to help you!
Thanks for the nice write-up. I've mentioned you to Stephanie Murphy (from the show Lets Talk Bitcoin), who may be doing a segment about walletrecoveryservices.com shortly. Perhaps you will get a mention too?
Regarding your ruby scripts - no, I didn't use them, except for some reference info.
Cheers
Dave
Have fun with your refound hundreds of btc! You were very lucky you found them again!
and how much of the passphrase were you able to give him/how much of what you gave turned out to be correct?
i was very, very close. if i had used in my own cracker the basic notion of checking shift-casing the different chars i would have found it myself eventually. i gave him a lot of info; but actually most of it was "wrong" in the sense what i told him it most likely looked like was not what it actually was.
i did provide him everything though, an essay on my thought process as well as the source code to the cracker i wrote; not sure if he used the ruby scripts at all though
and how much of the passphrase were you able to give him/how much of what you gave turned out to be correct?
was it up front or contingent on success?
contingent on success; i didn't pay anything upfront.
was it up front or contingent on success?
Congrats on your newly re-found bitcoin!
sounds like a decent human being. i think i've heard of this service from multiple people. i wouldn't hesitate to use their services if i had a few BTC that i didn't have access to.
what did you pay him?
I'm a programmer; I got into bitcoin in early 2011; and was smart enough to keep a sizeable stash (several hundred btc). When bitcoin started really going through the roof I spent a bunch of time 'protecting' that wallet with a long passphrase; and though I opened it several times, I waited like 4 months to get into it and when I tried, I couldn't get in. I tried and tried and tried.
I eventually wrote a naive cracker that tried about 5 million attempts in little bursts over the next couple months, never successful. I was getting ready to give up when I was referred to dave. I was hopeful but far from optimistic.
Within 72 hours of contacting dave; he had cracked a 50+ character password, with everything you are supposed to have: symbols, numbers, upper and lower case, words and random gibberish. He had the opportunity to steal, if he chose 57 btc from me worth at the time of writing something like ~34k usd. He didn't!
I obviously gave him the info needed; he wasn't acting blind.
Dave, you fucking rock.
I eventually wrote a naive cracker that tried about 5 million attempts in little bursts over the next couple months, never successful. I was getting ready to give up when I was referred to dave. I was hopeful but far from optimistic.
Within 72 hours of contacting dave; he had cracked a 50+ character password, with everything you are supposed to have: symbols, numbers, upper and lower case, words and random gibberish. He had the opportunity to steal, if he chose 57 btc from me worth at the time of writing something like ~34k usd. He didn't!
I obviously gave him the info needed; he wasn't acting blind.
Dave, you fucking rock.
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