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I got scammed out of my bitcoin. I have located the Bitcoin address where the ass hat is holding all of his/her/their coins. Its in excess of ~700btc. I would like to find a way to crack his the public key for the private key and then donate the coinage to ~700 random peeps in this community. I did not loose a lot but I'm way more talented that rich. And I have access to a server farm (in which I have permission to use unused resources - greater than 100 machines).

IF anyone has attempted this before, it would be greatly appreciated. There is a TON of into out there but I cannot decipher what is the correct method to use.

Unless the attacker used brainwallet with a weak passphrase, a weak online wallet that is willing to cooperate or a bugged wallet with a flawed RNG, this cannot be done...
Sorry.

Quite simple: if anybody with a botnet of a couple hundred/thousand PC's was able to brute force any private key that results in a certain public key whose hash (the address) has been funded with a couple BTC, bitcoin would have been worthless by now, since in this case the security concept would have been flawed. The address space is 2^160, the private keyspace 2^256. It's basically impossible to bruteforce these keyspaces... It might sound like this is possible because the human mind just isn't capable of imagining the mere concept of numbers this big, in reality it is impossible.

I realise this isn't what you wanted to hear, but this is the reality. Sorry for you loss.

If this was possible do you think btc would be worth what it's worth now? ;)
Sorry for your loss mate.

I am sorry for your loss. But I think its impossible to breach into his wallet. But you can investigate who is this person and help the community by posting his identity as a scam. 

Next time secure everything and be careful in every actions takens because even you put all securities in your wallet but your too careless its too useless.Some mistakes leads to trouble.

In the history of Bitcoin, nobody has ever been able to do that. You can add all the hashing power of all the Bitcoin farms in

the world together to try and Bruteforce a private key for a Bitcoin address and you would never solve that. The electricity

cost to do that would quickly absorb all the benefits of doing this, so it is a futile attempt. Sorry bud, write off the loss and

move on, because you not going to get your money back.  :(  The claims that people are doing this is false.  >:(

Breaking a symmetric 256-bit key by brute force requires 2128 times more computational power than a 128-bit key. Fifty

supercomputers that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second (if such a device could ever be made) would, in

theory, require about 3×1051 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack

Too bad you also lack knowledge about bitcoin.
A server farm is useless, two server farms are useless, you will need computing power that doesn't exist on this planet to do that.
And even if it would, nobody would lend it to you for 700 BTC let alone for nothing.



Rather than thinking about that, unless of course your not trolling since you're a newbie with a single post, you could always tell us how you got scammed and maybe prevent others from falling to the same scam.

A new account claiming to have had 700 btc, but probably doesn't know enough hence getting scammed (assuming what you're saying is actually true). Also, thinking you could do bad things with only 100+ miners. You're going to need a lot more than that. Yeah sure 700 btc.

Um, so you are telling everyone on an open, public forum about your plans to commit a crime?

And a bunch of asshats are giving you advice on how to do it, becoming implicit in that crime?

You claim to be very talented and have a lot of resources at your disposal, but you don't know what to do and ask a bunch of strangers on bitcointalk for help?

Yeah, this screams of a fake post for attention or if it genuine, an incredibly immature, impulsive, reckless and flat out stupid individual.

Stuff gets stolen.  It sucks but it happens.
Wanting to go steal from teh person who stole from you is a natural instinct, but to follow through on that and make plans is petty and won't bring about any kind of satifsfaction, just more stress and frustration.

Next time, why don't you try securing your btc better?
If you do it right, than the chances of having your btc stolen become quite literally 0%.

Im sorry for your loss. But i really hope it is impossible to break into this persons wallet.

This would be very bad for bitcoin in general if that would be possible.

I hope the btc will flow back your way in another way.

i think its impossible for you or for everybody to do that, everybody has their respinsibility for their own wallet security, you are not the only one who got a problem like this,  i had also has a bad experience just like you, i couldnt do anything except to let it go, start it again from zero and more carefully in the future in the best choice that you can do

Tough luck for you dude. No way anyone could tap into an anonymous wallet and I don't think if there'd be such, that they'd post the information in a public forum. Of course nasty people can use that same information to hack into innocent people's wallets right? And i'm sure there's no way for that now. It's a lesson learned the hard way, if that's what actually happened at all in the first place.

Yes, I was being stupid in all accounts above...

Arbitragecoins.com is the scam site.

Why the hell did I send coin to that site? It was because of all the hype on the Arbitrage Bot: https://www.arbitraging.co
FOMO got the best of me and I was dumb.

He claims his coins went to a deposit address containing 700 BTC not that all were his funds. And not that it matters that much.... :)


Seems like Arbitrage is the new Ponzi...
Just yesterday I saw another Ico Scam (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4486941.0) with this kind of activity

Did you see this?
Risk Free Trade (https://arbitragecoins.com/site/riskfree)

When something advertises risk-free money, it's an obvious scam, why the hell would somebody need money when they know the bulletproof way to make money?

This should be a lesson for everybody that still falls for those scams.

Ps, you should open a topic in Scam Acusations  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0) with all the datails, maybe it will prevent further incidents.

Human mind is definitely capable of comprehending very big / very small numbers with proper training, it's just that most people never really thought about those numbers. For average joe "big number" is a billion or a trillion, so when they hear that you can technically bruteforce a crypto key, they think that there's a chance like in winning a lottery, and some even try to bruteforce something or mine Bitcoin with their CPU. We should just explain to them that those chances are actually like winning a lottery billions of billions of times in a row, this number is so close to zero that for any practical purposes is should be treated as zero.

You cannot crack the private key of the scammer! I am very sorry for your loss, if its possible then no one in the world would be talking about Bitcoin as a store of value ( because it can be stolen ). However some think that quantum computers may one day be advanced enough to crack such keys. Any ways at this time they are at their formative stages. The most sensible thing that you can do is move on with your life and investing strategies also paying more attention to securing your crypto wealth!

I am sad for your misfortune. Be that as it may, I think it’s difficult to rupture into his wallet. However, you can examine who is this individual and help the network by posting his way of life as a trick. Moreover you should be very careful in the next time.

I am sorry to say that it is not possible and I am also sorry for your loss.But I think your thinking is great. I hope that in future you will be able to identify the hackers acount.

If you find a way please Dont fail to share.. Those scammers are becoming too smart not one just have to be extra careful because for now you can't go after this "asshat" maybe the future will be different

I don't know how this can be possible. Maybe you should let bygones be bygones and learnt to protect your wallet the next time

It's almost impossible to do. Only if you are very lucky - you will be able to return your bitcoins. Sorry, but it's true

Agreed , this story does seem a bit out there.  Someone that actually had that much money stored in bitcoin would surely be much more careful with their security.

Unless I see more proof I'm not convinced that this even happened.  On the slight chance that this is legit, I'm truly sorry for your loss OP.

just out of curiosity, What's the address with 700 btc ?

From the very start you got hyped by that bot? sorry for your loss mate. ~if it's real.

Would you allow us to show that address? everyone's been interested on where that 700 btc~ you lost. But if you are not going to come back and this is just a story that you've created, I knew it that you are only to advertise that bot with your style.

Going after him??? Do you really think it is possible?? Well, I don't know I'd there is any way around it though but I think once it is lost, it is lost

You can keep trying man. Maybe you will get it one day. Irreversibility is the word in crypto transactions. And wallet hacking is only possible of the owner looseguard or give out his mail, private keys or phrase. Otherwise any hacking attempt is only a joke. Lets learn and move on.

scammers are real ass problem in the crypto world,please you have  all the right to go for em go get em.

Sorry to say but this is nearly impossible. If you can crack the private key of one public address, then you can crack other peoples address as well.
And that will mean bitcoin is not secure. Cryptocurrency is created with complicated algorithm, making it impossible to crack.

RawDog has done it before.  He's done it here in this forum with this website: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1

You can find the private key for your address on that site.  RawDog made a script that uses some secret hints - to speed up the process.  Ask him.

Very sorry for the great loss. To talk about you cracking somebody private key, i can say It may be "theoretically" possible, but in reality it's unlikely to be achieved. This is just like saying you can count the number of atoms in an office building, which is  unlikely. In any event, if you can do so to somebodys private key then you can also scam people. and this could mean that bitcoin is not save.

You have just said it the way it is despite being blunt about it, its the simple truth that there is no other out there. For Op, I understand his grouse and passion to wanting to get back at that person. Anyone who has been scammed before would understand the feeling especially if the amount involved is one huge that could make a significant impact in ones financial status. I could remember when I was scammed of some too sometimes in the past as small as it was, it was hard to lose and if I had my way, I would have hacked the wallet and all of those. I felt helpless and stupid at the same time. For Op, the earlier you started forgetting about it, the better it is to move on.

This is one of the ills of crypto currency that I always clamour for. If it were to be in the bank, you don't get to give up easily but here, one confirmation in a matter of minutes have sealed the fate that the fund is gone forever and the people involved in this unwholly attitude  should just desist for the sake of posterity.

Sorry to hear about your loss. This is a huge problem with the crypto world at the moment. People constanstly getting scammed and scammers can get away with it easily. I do not have any knowledge of what you are tying to achieve but I wish you luck.

I am absolutely sure you knew this before asking and then threw this at the community. If there be any machine anywhere remotely possible to carry out what you are thinking, then there would be no bitcoin anywhere. What you are proposing could only happen in a Sci-Fi movie, and that would mean shutting out the electricity requirement of half of Chicago for that job.
Sorry mate! may be in the future, but right now, this is no way possible.

Oh, it is too bad. I think you need to be more careful with your bitcoins as it is easy to lose money today due to a number of different schemes and people who want to get your coins in the dishonest way. You should hold it using a reliable purse

I think you need to look into the method of the scam and try to get a communication between you and him. There is no way you can hack it, so look at negotiating instead, perhaps using law enforcement as well.

losing 700 bitcoins is really bad. sorry for your loss. i would store this amount of bitcoins only offline. but already amazing how easy the op sees it. i would cry for just one bitcoin if i lose it.

A fully new account claiming to have had 500 btc, but possibility doesn't know enough space getting scammed. Also,I thinking you could do bad things with only 50 or more miners. You're going to need a lot more than that. That is sure 500 btc.

I do accept completely that the things offered for free almost ended up being a scam or at least milking something from you, either your identification details or something else.
One thing i would like to hear from the OP is that, since he knows where the coin is, he must post the wallet address so that everyone can monitor, as everyone said, no one has hacked it, so what ever your plan is, that is not going to work and since you have that much amount of coins your should have known better.  ::)

Give that dude the thing he deserve it's not a good work to scam someone. Doing things like that for me is just for weak so give hime the reward he deserves. Make him pay for what he do and at the same time your focus is to get your own back. Get back what is yours and teach that scammer a lesson he will never forget.

New account..
Claiming he/she has loss 700 bitcoins.
Saying he wanted to help crack that wallet.
Tells he/she is willing to distribute it to random people in the community.
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I guess we have all the spices needed.
Keep away from this person.
Because for me this doesnt seem to be legit at all.
Imagine accumulating 700 bitcoins which he claims just as a small amount for him but doesnt know how to safeguard a wallet.
My hands are up.

No, if you can get his private key or you can access the hackers wallet, its mean you can hack all of peoples bitcoin wallet.
and 700 btc, are you sure about that ? if i have many btc in my wallet, i will place them in many wallets, not only a single wallet.

a fraudulent program you are the victim of if you are deceived you wish you could not be the leader and you want you will not repeat the calendar so that is me and you hopefully

If this is true, i really feel sorry for you. what i can do is to encourage you not to stop involving in cryptocurrency world.
This case may can be an experience for us, so we can search and find how to protect our wallet with best security.

You should know how to protect your wallet, it can not possibly happen to you

Is the OP talking about losing 700 in btc, Mbtc or bits? I don't get the ~700 stuff or is he just bush talking here? Oh, he is even a noob here so he may not know that the forums doesn't tolerate fairy tales.

So sorry about that, but hey! Your story doesn't correlate? Every one be careful here.

Unfortunately the things you want to do can not be possible. It is merely impossible to hack into other's wallet even if you have thousands computers. I am sorry for your loss. But you can investigate on who did this. 

If you can hack the private key of an address, the same power is enough to dig for hundreds of millions of years of mine...!
The Bitcoin distribution system ensures that it cannot be monitored, isolated, or destroyed by governments, organizations, or hackers, thus ensuring the reliability and anonymity of the system.

Sorry for your loss!

I'm sorry if you actually you lost your bitcoin to a scammer. The truthis that , I think you are just trying to get information on how how can successful commit crime . You claimed to be talented, so you could have outsmarted the scammer.

There is a hacker called 4chan that is rumored to be able to do this... you would have to ask on that forum though...

It's funny reading all these posts to this thread.

He never claimed to have lost 700BTC.  He said the scammer has his BTC in an address that has 700BTC.

Funnier is the number of people that believe 'hacking' a private key from the public address is even possible.  If it were, even for a single address, then everyone would be doing it to become instant billionaires.  Of course, bitcoin would be worthless instantly.

..if you really got scammed..then it is your fault..you should not give to any one your private key..many warnings are spread anywhdre that you should not tell anybody your private key..maybe you are just trying to get information on how to betrayed others by their innocence iin engaging into crypto..

I'm sorry for your lost, but I think it impossible to get back your address with breached that address, because we can see that the private key is the main key to open and access wallet, and the code of private key is encrypted, need many many years to find the right key with latest computer specifications right now

I know that FOMO is really a strong instinct, as a human we sometimes do become impractical when we feel a strong force that compels us to act before we think. the Fear Of Missing Out is something that we should consider when  we see a very lucrative offer online, as people here have mentioned, the saying "if its too good to be true then it probably is." is really old but is still very valid in todays situation of all these scams on the internet.

No you are not dumb if you only followed your emotions its more of that you were not prepared and that you were GREEDY. Yes that is the term that you should understand that pushed you into being scammed. Greed is good only in games. In real life it can make you go bankrupt.

Another point that I could advise on in the future if anyone asks for your private key, is to NEVER, EVER give out. Its called private for a reason. Treat it like its your password, if you give it out, people can access your accounts, in this situation its your wallet with your money in it. Ask yourself this do you give out your password online? The answer should be no and that is how you should treat your private key.

You and we cannot do anything about how to find out the hacker's private key. Cryptocurrency is created with crypto system so anyone cannot hacked or figure out the wallet key. And in the first place, how can you get hacked ? I am curious to know your 700btc story

Sorry for the lose man. But you can't crack Bitcoin Private Key so many tried it already but no one still did with the amount of that guy stolen I think he won't also use a weak software to do that. Theres no hope mate sorry.

It's hard to recover, And in fact it's too late to regain it because there are so many series of no # and letters you need to match before you can get a private key. So do not expect that you can get it back. And it may be the reason for it to be especially careful and it will not be repeated again.

this just cannot be done man. im sorry for the loss

In this market everything can happen, you are fooled, sadly for that, you should be more careful about what you do later, about your transactions.

no one can cheat you in the Blockchain! If you don't believe that, you can search on Google

yeah, find a better way to use your talent.
You just paid for a learning experience.

Did you find the asshat?

Sorry for your lose mate i think its very hard to crack that wallet anymore and if you could probably he or she already sell that btc in the market because it take a long time to crack that wallet private key.

If this was able to happen, then bitcoin will surely die. And I'm sure if server farms are able to crack bitcoin before bitcoin will not even hit a penny today. I'm also sorry for your loss but like others here I think we were not able to do it.

I'm sorry that you lost your bitcoins, but I think that there is no way to crack the secret code. If the way to hack would be all would do so. Nobody would benefit from it, so that it could be hacked.

I am sorry you got scammed and I really hope you can get your coins back. I would also like to recommend AML BitCoin because is the only coin that cannot be hacked or stolen. Check it out here: https://amlbitcoin.com

Yeah that's something that can be used on anyone if ever there's a way to do so. I mean, it'll be easy to say that your btc was stolen to this wallet address and have that wallet address cracked right? It's a security protocol that crypto is known for.

It's likely not scammed, you are likely got phished. S/he seems to get so many bitcoins by putting some ransomwares or viruses on your laptop so it can crawl all your data from 0 to 100.

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To hack his/her wallet, you need to own all the full node from the miners around the world so you can get your btc back and also the others.

This is a very interesting job to do. Yet as of now it is very hard to really crack the keys as it was made this way otherwise if it will be easy then security will be a problem and nobody else will be using cryptocurrency out of fear.

I felt bad about your experience and that hacker deserves to be punished. I want you to recover what has been stolen from you and get back what is yours. At the same time I want you to be more careful and take care of your account properly. We don't want this kind of inconvenience and it's very unfortunate tht you have to experience that.

Don't waste your time, even if you have access to 1 million super powerful computers, it will be impossible to crack the private key.
This is the good thing about Bitcoin, it is practically impossible to crack a wallet otherwise, no one will trust this technology.

Tough luck for you dude. No way anyone could tap into an anonymous wallet and I don't think if there'd be such, that they'd post the information in a public forum. Be patient and have luck.

Im sorry but i think this woould be impossible. Sorry for the loss man.

not true at all.  Here are all the private keys:  All Private Keys (https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/2934)

Just change the page number until you find your key.  It is in there - 100% sure.

This will not be possible. Even if this happens and you succeed, many people will not trust bitcoin. And if you really lose it, it's good for you to give up than you have to pray in the discussion forum and still ask for help from those who judge that it will not return.

Internet Mafias are so cleaver these days, they can use Bitcoin mixing services to cut the blockchain history. So they can use the money anytime they want. Authorities should also communicate with the Bitcoin mixing like services to catch frauds.

No one can enter an anonymous wallet and I don't think if there is, they will post information in public forums. Of course bad people can use the same information to hack innocent people's wallets.

I feel sorry for you, bro. I do not think that the key can be hacked back.

On these machines, you can install mining programs, run them, and in six months you will be a millionaire.

are you serious do you know what bitcoin is all about ?????

This one, bitcoin is more secure than most people think. Your weakest spot in Bitcoin is actually human using it.

This is just simply not possible and it does not matter how many TONS of computers you have access to.
Also, to me this sounds like more of a scam.
Imagine I know a way, how can I be sure that you are just not going to get all that money for yourself?

It's not gonna work man. I am just wondering how then you'd been so careless securing your big treasure.

With such an unreasonable idea it will only mean that you are a fraudster or you harbour the idea of being one. The best is for you not to be greedy you thought show a whole lots of greed in it. Go back make corrections to your errors check where you let your guard down

Is it me or does the original post seem a little suspect? Forget the back story as this may or may not have happened, we will never know.
On the face of it, a new member asks advice on how to scam / commit fraud?

Yea, the ~700 BTC sounds weird, is this 700 BTC or 0.700 BTC? Someone with 700 BTC <$4 458 000> can hire a army of hackers with bot farms to attempt this. <They will be wasting their time and his money, but it will be interesting to see what comes out of this>  ;D

Obviously he said he does not have the 700 BTC anymore, but he said it was not a lot, so I am guessing he has a lot more, if 700 BTC is not a lot to him.  ::)

Why does he not reply or give details about the scam, if this really happened?

It is quite likely that the OP had a smaller amount of bitcoin that they got scammed out of and that they tracked it to a wallet address with around 700BTC.


The OP never said that they had 700BTC - they said that the scammer address had 700BTC.

It is probably a large exchange wallet that the scammer sent it to and has already long ago been converted to another Crypto and withdrawn from the exchange.

I think you really need a professional for this hack)but navryatli that it will be able to do this and to return your bitcoins...I wish you only to try to return your bitcoins and not fall into the hands of scammers)

Whatever had happened to you it is really pathetic mate. Whatever you wanna do now it doesn't make sounds good. You should take good care of your wallets now if possible try to take better steps for not being scammed furthermore.

I'm sure the scammer is storing their btc in a secure wallet. I will be impossible the get in. Next time just be smarter and don't get scammed mate.