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Hi all,

I am new to this bitcoin thing so maybe I make some mistakes, please bear with me.

I have a friend who just contacted me and told me about this new thing called bitcoins. His situation is that he is in prison serving a sentence for I think 8 years, and he needs me to get his bitcoins.

He said two years ago he wanted to buy drugs on the internet so he used a couple hundred bucks to buy some bitcoins, he said he thinks there are around 30,000 of them but he is not totally sure.

But he never got round to using them and they are still sitting in his computer.

However when my friend was arrested last year the police confiscated his computer. I just asked the police for his computer, they told me because his computer was connected to his drug dealing charges it was confiscated, and it will be sold at public auction later.

My question is should I hire a lawyer to ask for his computer, and even if I got it how on earth do I get these bitcoin thingy back??

1. Go to auction.
2. Buy computer. Or all the computers if you don't know which one it is. 30k BTC makes that make sense.
3. ???
4. Profit.

yea i agree with the guy above me. But first go to the cops and offer them a few hundred bucks for it and tell them your friend has family photos and stuff that are invaluable.  Thats alot of cash and it would be worth paying whatever its worth to get it.  Worse case they should be able to tell you what lot it is being sold in do you can buy it

This must be the troll post of the month, certainly a contender for troll of 2013!

The computer is going to have it's hard drive removed when sold.

Thanks for making everyone else richer.

But I don't know which auction they will sell it at, and the police don't know either and they can't tell me when the auction will happen.

these pigs are so not helpful I tell ya.

My friend said he really needs the money to hire a good lawyer so he can get out of prison.

We are in NYC and we are dealing with the NYPD if that helps.

Anyone please help?!

HDD will be removed, sorry but your friend lost coins.

2 years ago 30,000 btc were worth 100k already not just "a couple hundred bucks"

Why?? Does that hard drive not belong to my friend??

How can I get it back? That is theft by the NYPD!

Should I pay the money to hire a lawyer? I mean money is tight for me but if I really have to.

I don't know the price of these things. I just repeated what my friend told me - he bought these coins a couple of years back for a couple hundred dollars, and he got maybe 30 thousand of them.

For all I know he could be lying to me, it would not be the first time ha. Jack, you always were stupid but oh so adorable :) :)

Drive wiped.

And by wiped, I mean by using a drill press.

Yes, it's very likely that the private key ahs being lost now.

an other donation to the bitcoin community

Trolls.

If it's really this much, it should be worth the cost of the lawyer if necessary.  If they believed his computer was connected to his charges, they probably imaged the hard disk when they seized it.  I would think (don't know) your friend would be entitled to a copy of that data, or at least was entitled to it for his defense if there was a trial.  So, there could still be a copy of the data somewhere.  If you're not trolling, it's worth investigating the options.

P.S. You may face consequences for so much as breathing on ~$3million worth of drug money...

Hire a lawyer is a pretty good idea, don'tcha think?

Every thread here is a troll thread, whether the OP started it as one or not.

Say bye bye. The drive has been wiped (with muriatic acid)

Good story - could be a movie plot  ;D - here, another idea to make money.

I am surprised the OP has escalated to "I talked to a lawyer and get can get the laptop but it is going to cost $5,000 in court fees which I don't have.  I would be willing to share a split of the coins on the laptop if someone can lend me the lawyer money."

Honestly kinda already expected it.

You couldn't buy 30,000 BTC for a couple of hundred bucks two years ago.  Not buying the story.

Seconded. I was surprised when the first post ended with "how do I use bitcoins" instead of some request for financial help.

 ;D This is becoming interesting. Let's see if anyone bites.

Spanish prisoner protocol engaged!

Troll thread or not,  last like shibaji said "good story"

That sounds like my friend's story. He lives in Poland where all of the exchanges are being shut down. The government is trying to find all Bitcoin users and round them up for prison sentences. He was mining early on so he has over 100,000 bitcoins. He says the police will be there soon and he needs money to get out of the country quick.

He is willing to accept a dollar per bitcoin if someone can just wire him the money so he can get out. He is desperate.

He even says he will pay half back once he gets out of the country. He just needs your bank account information and your social security number.

Please help this desperate soul.

Is your friend from Nigeria?

I have to admit, this is one of the more interesting threads on the board, troll or not. I sincerely hope you actually find a way to get that hard drive back.

LOL  :D :D

For three million dollars it's time to develop an elaborate scheme and steal it right out of the police station. Alternatively go and get a lawyer to file petitions to return the possessions for some or other reason.

But if there are really over three million dollars, then just  bribe your way to get it. seek out a vulnerable cop, and go withdraw 100,000 or so, whatever it take to bribe the guy to break into evidence and get the laptop. Warning, you could go to prison yourself for doing this.

Moral of the story: back up your bitcoin account to a microsd card and bury it somewhere no one will find it (except you, hopefully..). or hide the microsd card anywhere where no one will find it. like in a wall or something. better yet, put a gps on it so that when the time comes you can track it down. make several copies and store them in various places all around the world.

Do like Walter White and Jesse Pinkman and use a giant magnet to get it back!

Uhhhh get what back exactly? They broke in to DESTROY frings laptop.

uh oh! 30,000 bitcoins = 33,00,000$ @ current mt. gox rate  :o

Troll post is trollololling...

But if not, please thank your friend for his generous contribution to the community.

...and tell him about the soap thing.

bad luck...
I wish I could find a computer with 100BTC...

Yeah the soap thing is more important than 30k BTC

When bitcoins are lost, they are lost forever correct?

is it not true then, that eventually the number of coins in circulation will be less and less, which in turn may lead to
added deflation  pressure ?
governments can re-issue old or lost bills, but if bit coin is physically lost, the supply of currency will diminish. 

So what is the solution to this as this guy just jost 30,000 coins.

WOw thats too bad

If wallet.dat (private key) is lost, the bitcoin is lost "forever". It is impossible (at the current stage) for people to generate a 256-bit number which happens to be the private key for the wallet. Since there's no central authority, you also cannot do a "forget your password" to recover your private key because no one else has it other than you.

So when bitcoins lost forever, the total supply of bit coins will be reduced? Or the lost bitcoins will be generated again in the future?
Or they become a dead weight, forever associated with lost wallet? 

And if so, eventually more and more bitcoins will get lost, due to computer failure or confiscations by the Government.
Or by solar flare (magnetic storms) destroying data etc.   

Supply of Gold slowly grows, but once all bitcoins had been mined, they will start to slowly disappear.
Am I understanding this correctly? 

Yes lost is lost*.  No "lost" coins aren't reintroduced.  There is no way to know if a coin is lost or not.  No, it isn't a problem.  And to answer your next question, no the community isn't going to support a hard fork to remine so called "lost coins" that would be theft.



* In theory it is possible someday ECDSA could be weakened through the discovery of a cryptographic flaw.  This would allow individuals (much like gold treasure hunters) to gain access to lost coins.  Of course we have no idea if or when this might happen.

i had a computer in my brothers hause for 3 years with 1 million btc and just when i realized the currently price, my brother sold it

The police might be incompetent.  ;D Is the auction one of those public listings where it'll be in a pallet of 500 HDDs sold as-is?

If you send me the HDD once it's recovered, I'm willing to design, produce, and send a tiny collapsible "anal lawnmower" to keep soap predators out of your buddy, fwiw.

This thread is a magnificent trifecta.

1. It is high-level trolling at it's best.

2. It's provides insight into how intricate scams are.

3. A brilliant cautionary tale as to why cold wallets, paper wallets, or brain wallets are so important.

Ha! I'm super boon here and I can see that this is BS.

troll post.  ;)
bitcoin=drugs
@cnn: bitcoins are for drugs

Don't lie to the police.  They have very long memories.
Go to the auction and buy all the computers that are for sale.
Keep your mouth closed.  Keep a neutral poker face.  Act like you are totally indifferent.
If your friend has not told his lawyer this, he should now.

Reminds me of hundreds of treasure seeking movies.

But Guys this poster is a GIRL who is POSTING on a NERD's FORUM !

Doesnt it ring your troll bells ?

Would have had to buy some time ago, making him pretty savvy. 

Then would have had to go to pound-me-in-the-ass prison for stupid shit.  And be stupid enough not to realize the BTC was appreciating in value.

Then only come online now, in a noob post on the noob forum by someone who never posted before.

Trollin trollin trollin.

This.

The story is more believable than there being a female on the forum.

Can't believe I missed the opportunity to make this reference, with my avatar.  OP, take a huge electromagnet to the evidence locker and suck the private keys out.  Yeah bitch, magnets!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwVDDxoKBk4)

I think the fact that the OP hasn't returned shows that we outed his/her scam and so there's no reason to continue the story.

It was a nice story though :)

let me guess, you need someone local to help you find a lawer? oh thanks for teh help, oh now you need some monies to pay for it? but it's cool cause you will give them back over 9000 bitcoins in return.

also, your friend is a Nigerian prince

Im sure OP will deliver an update..