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So anyone able to help me figure this out its on an old legacy wallet from a wallet.dat file of mine and I did encrypt it but can most likely hash the password I put I have a good idea on what it may be but if you know how I can bypass this I will give whoever 10k reward its been so long since i messed with this stuff an I was way smater back then.

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1ApiCgLSysQFeF7V2MFTEHiRsep7AR8Pyx right here is the wallet I got from a dump on receiving addresses on the .dat file for proof

Bypass what exactly?  if you encrypted a plain password and used that to encrypt your wallet, then you cannot just bypass that. Or you mean you want to brute force it?

But if you do know the password or have an idea , and you just want to know how can you try to open the file...I'm going to guess that you were using bitcoin core? Not sure if the latest versions still read the previous wallet.dat's but either way, you can try it. If that doesn't work, get the version released in 2013 (around the time you received funds) and try with that.

You can't just bypass encryption. I assume you're talking about wallet created by Bitcoin Core, so i would suggest you to consider BTCRecover[1] to perform brute-force if your password is relative weak or you remember characteristics of your password to reduce total possible combination.

P.S. People who PM you to offer help usually is a scammer, i would recommend you to ignore/report such PM.

[1] https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

Do you remember anything about the password that was used? Length, special symbols, randomly generated or not, etc.
I successfully recovered an old wallet of mine using hashcat, but it does have a bit of a learning curve and needs a good GPU setup.

If you have the wallet.dat file, then use a script from the John The Ripper repo. Look for the file bitcoin2john.py.
https://github.com/openwall/john/blob/bleeding-jumbo/run/bitcoin2john.py

Generate the hash for hashcat by typing:
python bitcoin2john.py wallet.dat > myhash.txt

The output hash can be used to find the password using various techniques and the hash mode 11300.

More about Hashcat and different attacks check their webpage.
https://hashcat.net/wiki/

eg, brute force a 6 character password:
hashcat.exe --status -O -a3 -m11300 myhash.txt ?a?a?a?a?a?a

You need a GPU and a lot of luck and/or patience.

Did you have any luck recovering this?
 
If not, feel free to shoot me a PM - FYI I managed to recover a long-lost wallet password for another member just a few days ago (using my multi-GPU setup).
See:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228226.0