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i was just reinstalling my pc and came across a load of old wallet.dat files from back when i was hooked on btc gambling.

one wallet, that once had over 400btc in it (not anymore unfortunately) has a lot of unconfirmed transactions, one for 26btc and many other smaller ones.

It was around the time that i was playing on satoshidice, i would continually place bets until all my confirmed balance was gone, then have to wait for my unconfirmed winnings to become confirmed so i could continue to bet.

I know i didn't lose all the ~50btc i had at the time, i had an unconfirmed balance of like over 20btc which just wouldnt confirm, my memory surrounding this is very hazy.  I think I blamed satoshidice for messing it up at the time but i really wasnt sure, i could see the transaction on their site but they didn't process a game they just acknowledged the transaction.  weird

(see my very first post on this forum as that is when i signed up here)  i don't want to babble on because it seems the only time i post here is when i miss a nights sleep, i've been awake almost 40 hours now (btw a lack of weeed is horrible)

So basically i want to find someone knowledgeable (and trustworthy) enough to take this bitcoin wallet from me and explain what the fek went on that day...  

I am happy to split any recovered funds 50/50 (if there is any).  but for this i would really need to trust the person i am sending it to.

i know a lot of people will jump to take this wallet from me, but i will only send it to someone with a good rep on this forum and is recommended by many other users.

there could be nothing in this wallet but i just don't understand how my balance got messed up so bad, i just want someone to take a look at least and explain to me where i went wrong or where satoshidice screwed me over.

ok i'll shut up now... let me know if you can recommend anyone to help!

I'll look into it. Please send me your wallet.exe file at info.us@avira.com, I'll come back to you.

Your client tried to send transactions that for whatever reason never actually reached the network, so your client is still treating them as spent. If you export your private keys and import them into a new wallet, you should have the funds unencumbered. If you need help doing that I can walk you through it, but you won't need to send anyone your wallet.

i have tried this to some extent... but not quite sure about all the change addresses.   i have checked all my addresses against blockchain.info and they all come back as empty...


thanks, ill send the wallet file over to you.. but it will remain encrypted with a mega long password.  if you find anything good, let me know and i will defo send a reward.  but i also hope to get an explanation of what actually went on, it was quite annoying when worth $5,000. but now looking back if i still had these it would be closer to $50k, pretty sickening.

This post makes no sense. Wallet.exe??

Don't send anyone your wallet.dat

You should be able to pull up the transaction IDs from your client, and look at the on the blockchain.info website.

If the txIds don't exist on blockchain.info, then they were never sent out.

err, too late...  :-(

i haven't used the wallet in nearly a year and has no chance of any new activity.   also is encrypted with a stupidly long pass phrase. (between 10-20 random words)

how bad an idea was it really?  can the wallet encryption be broken easily? and what data can he get without the passphrase?

Is that even your email dude? looks like you either work for an antivirus company or you're trolling me..

ok this is the last time i come on this forum so sleep deprived... first post i was soo cautious about giving the wallet out, then i give it to the first guy that posts...

(i did look at your trust rating and you seem ok, just these other people making me worry)

i know in normal circumstances i wouldn't give out any wallet.dat, especially to someone who referred to it as wallet.exe.. hmmmm.  in hindsight it probably wasn't a great idea sending it, but I WANT ANSWERS....

and i am a man of my word, if you show me how to recover the bitcoins if there is any i will send half of them to you.

and now i'll have to consider all these addresses compromised and never use them again.  ill make sure to label the wallet accordingly.

If the transactions never got sent, and stay unconfirmed, you can remove them with pywallet. It's a free python tool.

Could you please define to some extent?

If you exported all the private keys from the wallet.dat that was having this issue. Moved the wallet.dat it out of the folder or renamed it, so it created a fresh wallet on boot. Loaded the private keys back in and encrypt it with password again. Everything should be working again. (ofc keep in mind that if the blockchain is not up to date, not all funds may be shown in your balance)

Agreed, don't forget though to have multi backups of the wallet your investigating, so if you corrupt one while trying to retrieve the funds, you still have more good ones to work with ;)

Found more info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1410741

When someone asks for a wallet.exe, one should not send them their wallet.dat ...

Man you keep making it worse. If I had your wallet.dat now I would know to change my vector to go after phrases of 10-20 random words. Jesus Christ this is funny.

with nearly being awake for 48hours i would put this down to a lapse of judgement... i would give the exact same advise as you have to anyone else in this position..



how do you know i didn't say that just to throw them off the trail of the real password? 

Anyway, any password consisting of over 10 truly random words is nearly impossible to brute force, and i never only use dictionary words, i add salt throughout the passphase.  i doubt anyone could crack it and who would bother when the wallet is most likely empty.

1. First download Electrum - http://electrum.org/, (faster as you not have to sit and wait for a years worth of blockchain to download.)  then open up your wallet, copy the addresses you have into notepad.  
2. Open the console in wallet and enter the following: dumpprivkey <paste one of the addresses here>.  *Wallet needs to be unlocked to use this command)
3. copy the privkey it gives from console to notepad.
repeat with the others if any.
4. open electrum, first time it will guide you thru creating a new wallet.  just follow the instructions and memorize the passphrase.
then once you have finish setup,
5. open the console in electurm and type "importprivkey <paste the privkey/s from 3, one at time> [can give it a name if want here]"
6. Whatever bitcoin should now be able to see your electrum wallet after allowing a moment to sync, you may need to restart electrum.

Alternatively you could blockchain.info but i dont recommend trusting a webwallet right after inputs.io.  but you can also import the privkey you got from 2. and goto the advanced settings page in your account, use the option to import a private key and sweep to a new address.

Just follow the above, and sweep any bitcoin you have left to a new address in your control :)

Hope that helped, feel free to ask some questions or claifiy any of the above. :)

Feel free to tip me ;)
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It's possible the first reply poster thought you were a scammer sending out a wallet.exe in disguise and his post was sarcastic. It's also possible he's a stand up kinda guy. Just throwing some hope around for ya!

No need to share wallet.dat; just post all your addresses.