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sorry but its just worthless here, just too risky a trade, lets push aside you could have the password and move funds when deal is done, your better off getting a small password bot and get a cpu to constantly cycle passwords in hopes to crack it.

Quoted for reference and for one question.
Who with his head in the right position will ever had 50BTC in a wallet and he can't remember the password?
Your story is more than shady. I believe that you have this file but it's not really your wallet file...

Btw, you remember that you have a 50BTC now and not when the price was at 18k$... :-\

You was a worm when you buy them? I guess not.
You didn't know that you needed a password when you open your wallet? Of course you did.
When you invest in something you forget where you invest and how? Not a chance in a million.
Stupid will be anyone who send you even one satoshi and yes, i expected BTC to go there as i expect to do the same in the upcoming months.

Post the BTC address at least so that people can confirm that you indeed have 50BTC sitting in the wallet...

Yeah. Sorry bud. I'm calling BS on this.

You remember you have 50 BTC on a wallet, and can't remember your password. You try a handful of passwords, and decide you'll just give up and take 1% of the total, instead?

Dude. That's as much as a lot of people make in a year. Even after bitcoin has been crashing like it has. I don't believe you'd just dump that fast because you "have a lot what to do without sitting at pc".

This just doesn't sound legit.

Id happily ATTEMPT to try to crack it for you but depending on how long the password is it may be pointless and uncrackable with current teck. not worth anyones time to pay you to waste power potentially indefinitely trying to crack the file. Also you could just as easily have stolen the file which is why you dont have the password, you have no way to prove original ownership so paying you could be perceived by law enforcment as funding crime. your better off just uploading the file and hoping someone can crack it

BS because OP Said he bought the coins in the thread but when you look at the address : The coins are mined and not bought at.

Quoted to just show you said bought not mined  Pretty crappy scam attempt. Can't even say A for effort

don't have to be a genius to see this is a scam.
a newbie account, too many grammer /spelling mistakes.
really, the pattern is always the same.
beware!

it looks like my wallet, I have been mining coins and forgot them on HDD I have formatted later. I am sure those ARE mine! Thanx, you found wallet.dat file. Put it on site where i can download it.

Sad to hear that you don't have the password of a wallet in which you have more that 50 bitcoins . But you have to try out all possible passwords like your family members name your birth date , etc. may be anyone of it might work . This is because when you yourself are not able to find out the password how do you expect others to guess it . More over 50 bitcoins is almost $350,000 and since you are a newbie no one will even buy the wallet for even 0.1 bitcoin.
I hope you understand .

Thanks

I understand all the critics.
Instead of selling you might want to contact Dave. If he can’t recover it, then I doubt anyone can.
He work with a very reasonable commission, you will get much much more than you are asking.
Best part is that he don’t even need the entire wallet, only the header, so he cannot steal your coins. When he is done working he will tell you if he can recover or not.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240779.0

Dave will ask if you can remember anything about the password, any info wi greatly increase the chance of success.

Good luck

Yes, I have heard a lot of good reviews about Davebitcoin . He seems to be genuine . Joebrower all the best for your 40 bitcoins   :) :) :)

There are services which offer to help to recover you password but be wary which ones you go with because they could steal the btc in your wallet once they do their techniques on the dat file.
Try the wallet recovery group the above poster directed you too.
It is possible but it will take awhile to run it through these password recovery services.
Some have become successful in their attempts to recover their wallets in this way.

I can offer 0.00001 BTC upon verification that the address holds 50 BTC

Aaaaaannnd done.
https://blockchain.info/address/18KYtY7vSnPxDdNtr4pt1Sivkgnzebtp2Z (https://blockchain.info/address/18KYtY7vSnPxDdNtr4pt1Sivkgnzebtp2Z)

Proof positive that the address has just over 50 coins. :D

(BTW, do you know how many satoshis you'd waste in TX fees, sending that 1000? Better to use dogecoin, or something else.  ;) )

The problem is that a public key is worthless. All that it can be used for is receiving money. It is no more help than any public key. There is no path to your balance other than entering the correct password. So sorry man.
 :'( 

that scam is since 2013 ... so old

First off...sorry to hear you are going thru this. It must be every Bitcoin users nightmare.

I did a google search and there are services out there that help people in your position.

https://www.coindesk.com/meet-man-will-hack-long-lost-bitcoin-wallet-money/

http://www.gobitgo.com/articles/1005/How-To-Recover-Your-Bitcoin-Wallet-Password/

I am not sure how legit these places are ..if they are still in business..etc.

Please do due diligence. That's a lot of Bitcoin to lose. Any kind of bitcoin lost is bad period let alone 50BTC.

I am sure there is someone out there than can help you. Again be careful as there are more thieves than friendly people out there. Goodluck

Really sucks for something like this to happen... especially when we talking about nice stockpile of 50btc.

This is probably the best offer you going to get here:

You send me the .DAT file, I will ATTEMPT to recover the wallet. If I am able to do so then we split the coins. I will send 25 to you and keep 25 for myself.

Assuming your story is legit then this is a way better deal than trying to get 0.5btc for it.

is the password your favourite thing to drink?

As previously offered,
I am willing to try and crack the wallet and send you 50% of the funds once (and if) the password was hacked.
I would although appreciate some btc in escrow (if possible) so that my expenses in cracking the password are covered.

Please let me know if you're interested in my offer, I'll shoot you some questions to help me out jumpstart the process.

Kind Regards,
~Zara

@damirb602, I'll sell you this address: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/3D2oetdNuZUqQHPJmcMDDHYoqkyNVsFk9r (https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/3D2oetdNuZUqQHPJmcMDDHYoqkyNVsFk9r) for only .01 BTC.  :D

The address has almost 200,000 coins on it! Great deal for you.  ;)

I would attempt to brute force the wallet, or if you had an idea of what the password might be, try iterations if it.  I would split 50/50 if successful. 

You have any other proof, evidence, emailed receipts of purchase, documentation, something to prove it's legit?

OP is probably just trying to get a quick buck. Seeing as how they have been online recently but has restrained from posting any more and that they are choosing Telegram as a medium for communication, I would suspect that there is no .dat file.

And even if there is, like Forts pointed out, there's a contradiction between OP's statement (bought coins) vs. the fact that they were mined.

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They probably just looked for some old and inactive rich wallets to try and pull a fast one. Don't waste your time. /thread

try moonroof or sunscreen, either that or it's my favourite thing to drink.

Try the programme 'John the Ripper'

25  xbt and bch if unlocked... you'll need to send wallet.dat first though


nope im not putting those funds in escrow first...you;ll need to trust me

tire gauge?
soft shell?

My offer no good?  ::)

There is no way anyone is going to pay anything for an encrypted .dat file.  Just use a service that offers to crack it for a fee of the recovered funds.  If not locked the thread as its not gonna get anywhere.

I don't believe your story is true like most of other people told. But if its true then I can try brute forcing the file , if your password didn't contain much special characters / numbers and was made up of dictionary words and common names etc. I can pay you half the file if the brute force is successful

If you want to have it back, just look for someone who can help you with it, just like forcing to crack the private code with a virus or something(as for example), (I am not saying you'll do it yourself) but if you can contact the developer for the wallet then they can help you with it with your proof of ownership like KYC, since everyone can't just find a hacker to do the job.

Their is no "developer" that can get into your own wallet.dat file this isnt an exchange its his personal wallet which probably isn't true to even begin with

i will provide $1 for the whole account
send me the details of the account ;D ;D

Tell you what, send the wallet.dat file for free and if I figure out the password, I'll give you 10 per cent.

If you're legit, it involves the same level of risk except you're wearing it instead of the other person, and expecting to be sent cash for nothing. If this is a scam (which it looks like) then you obviously won't do it and instead wait for someone to send you money for nothing.

As a side note - what was the name of your first pet?

Wondering if the file is yours? or just stole it from other bitcoiner user who work hard to have that.
Just simple to understand, I have this file and I forgot my password, "who the hell out of this world forgetting that 50 btc password?"
Just make sense folks, don't fool us around.

Back in 2012 that was only 300$, just saying. But this posts is obvious a scam, there are many services to brute force the password and recover the coins and they charge you 10% of the amount if I remember well.

If he IS the owner of the account... why would he be trying to scam for 0.5 BTC when he’s holding over 373k... So, it’s obvioisly not even his account... and if it was his account and he did have the password just waiting to send out the coins after he recieved the 0.5 wouldn’t make sense... no point to scam for that low amount holding over a quarter of a million dollars. Only two options, it’s not his account period, or he legitimately doesn’t have the password and is retarded enough to give up after a few try’s and sell it for less than 1%
Just like how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?.. The world may never know...

Total bullshit

i want proof it has that much in it at which point ill offer 0.0000001 just to get rid of him

You would think a legendary member would know how to use blockchain...
He gave the address : 18KYtY7vSnPxDdNtr4pt1Sivkgnzebtp2Z
It legit has over 50 BTC.. 372k just sitting here.

This is one of the oldest scams in crypto. Don't fall for it. It's his money and the passphrase is probably just another private key, or two private keys. You'll never get it. Move along.

Sorry pal but writing things like that in here will definitely give you the comments you're getting. Your story is fake like superman.. Lol

I'm interested