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Title: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: Tazmaniac on October 29, 2017, 11:28:50 PM

$350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back

Whoever gives me the correct advice that gets me back in to my coins, will receive $250 in BTC. A further $100 will be split between everybody else who contributes, as a 'thank you ' for their time.

I have my paper wallet's Public Address, Private Key (Encrypted) and Checksum on PDF. I also have the password I used to encrypt my account.

However, every time I try to send money from my wallet (currently with Strongcoin), the message "Your passphrase may be incorrect, please try again" shows up.


Title: Re: $250 (0.04 BTC) reward for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: HBKMusiK on October 29, 2017, 11:50:47 PM
Sorry buddy but the one and only thing that can save you here is that mnemonic phrase. Pray you maybe saved it somewhere and hunt is your best hope, unfortunately.If you cannot retrieve your mnemonics or send your funds elsewhere via an installed wallet, you are out of luck.


Title: Re: $250 (0.04 BTC) reward for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: ICOs on October 30, 2017, 01:19:54 AM
...which I'm also happy to split between more than 1 member, if I receive the correct advice from more than 1 member.

Can anybody help. I have my paper wallet's Public Address, Private Key (Encrypted), Checksum and password I used to encrypt my account, but every time I try to send money from my wallet (currently with Strongcoin), the message "Your passphrase may be incorrect, please try again" shows up. I also have a mnemonic phrase, but I can't remember whether that phrase was for this Strongcoin wallet or something else. I have tried to enter the mnemonic phrase as the password I used to encrypt my acount (just on the off-chance), and have tried with and without spaces, but that's not working either.
Did you check if the mnemonic is from BitAddress.org?


Title: Re: $250 (0.04 BTC) reward for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: HCP on October 30, 2017, 02:50:47 AM
When you say you have the "paper wallet's Public Address, Private Key (Encrypted), Checksum and password I used to encrypt my account" do you mean you have all this information written down? Or just that you think you know what the password is?

BIP38 encrypted Paper Wallets can be tricky... And I remember there was a bug (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/issues/56) where depending on what browser you used, you could only decrypt in that same specific browser! :o

Do you remember how you created the paperwallet in the first place?


Title: Re: $250 (0.04 BTC) reward for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: Welsh on October 30, 2017, 09:50:06 AM
I'm not familiar with Strongcoin wallet hosting. But, there should be a recovery option for your mnemonic phrase separate to your password. Blockchain.info has one through selecting "Can't login" and has three options; forgot email, forgot password, enter mnemonic phrase.

If not you have probably misspell your password if you are 100% sure that it's close to that and if that's the case it might be somewhat easy to actually crack it if there's only a few typos such as capital letters etc.


Title: Re: $250 (0.04 BTC) reward for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: Tazmaniac on October 30, 2017, 11:07:16 AM

I have the Public Address, Private Key (Encrypted), Checksum stored off-line. And the password I know off by heart.



Title: Re: $250 (0.04 BTC) reward for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: LoyceV on October 30, 2017, 11:51:00 AM
I have the Public Address, Private Key (Encrypted), Checksum stored off-line. And the password I know off by heart.
How is it encrypted, how did you create it, and what did you use to try to decrypt it?
Does the encrypted private key use BIP38 compression (AKA does it start with 6PR)?

From your description, it's unclear to me what exactly you have there.


Title: Re: $250 (0.04 BTC) reward for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: zokizuan on October 30, 2017, 03:03:57 PM
try to enter private key at some other Wellet


Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: bob123 on October 30, 2017, 05:35:30 PM
You can decrypt your private key @ https://strongcoin.com (https://strongcoin.com).
Just click on your Account ->Decode private key. Then enter your password and you get your decrypted private key.
Afterwards you can import it into another wallet to spend your funds (e.g. electrum: https://electrum.org/ (https://electrum.org/) ).
But make sure to only work with your decrypted private key in a safe environment. If your not sure about your pc, rather
use a linux live system to decrypt and import the private key.



Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: HCP on October 30, 2017, 10:14:59 PM

I have the Public Address, Private Key (Encrypted), Checksum stored off-line. And the password I know off by heart.
Ahhhh.... Right. I think I get it now... You have the paper backup from strong coin, correct? Something like this:
http://iforce.co.nz/i/twc2ar5g.4so.png (http://www.iforce.co.nz/View.aspx?i=twc2ar5g.4so.png)

If that's the case, then the ONLY way to decrypt this is by using Strongcoin's service... If it says the password is incorrect, then you have the password wrong... Perhaps you typed it incorrectly when you first created the wallet?


Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: mustangy on October 30, 2017, 11:12:01 PM
if that screenshot is straight from the wallet you talking about gone bye bye coins how come you put private keys here


Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: taserz on October 30, 2017, 11:25:46 PM
if that screenshot is straight from the wallet you talking about gone bye bye coins how come you put private keys here

You clearly do not know how encryption works...


Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: Altcoiner420 on November 01, 2017, 12:52:40 AM

I have the Public Address, Private Key (Encrypted), Checksum stored off-line. And the password I know off by heart.


well, than would be not difficult to recover it. even if you have missed one or two letters of your password, you can brute force your wallet


Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: Jake052478 on November 01, 2017, 01:15:03 AM

I have the Public Address, Private Key (Encrypted), Checksum stored off-line. And the password I know off by heart.
Ahhhh.... Right. I think I get it now... You have the paper backup from strong coin, correct? Something like this:
http://iforce.co.nz/i/twc2ar5g.4so.png (http://www.iforce.co.nz/View.aspx?i=twc2ar5g.4so.png)

If that's the case, then the ONLY way to decrypt this is by using Strongcoin's service... If it says the password is incorrect, then you have the password wrong... Perhaps you typed it incorrectly when you first created the wallet?

I think stroingcoin have technical support regarding this dilemma.  Just like emails, customers support or tech support in cases like this should answer or at least gives assistance.  Try to contact them and state your problem to them.  I believe they will attend to your needs with gladness..


Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: samysamy1 on November 01, 2017, 09:25:04 AM
You could get in touch with this guy https://mtlynch.io/stole-siacoins/    since he has experience with these kind of stuff


Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: Tazmaniac on November 01, 2017, 12:00:47 PM
Thanks for your help. I'll spend some time on this in a couple of weeks time, and will keep everybody updated


Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: miguelmorales85 on November 01, 2017, 05:15:32 PM
Thanks for your help. I'll spend some time on this in a couple of weeks time, and will keep everybody updated

so... who from this groups of kind gentlemen won the bounty for helping you?
You have a word to keep.

peace.


Title: Re: $350 for anybody who can help me get my bitcoins back
Post by: Spendulus on November 01, 2017, 09:35:30 PM
Thanks for your help. I'll spend some time on this in a couple of weeks time, and will keep everybody updated

I have had cases like this where I type back in the string, and think I have it right, but a character was mistyped or written down wrong originally.

However, suppose that you tested each position of the key with all valid characters. for base 58 that is only 58*number of characters in the key.

No big deal, right?