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After hearing about the R-value and RNG incidences,
I wondering if the private key of the address can really be derived or the intruder must have got in another way.

I posted on reddit few days ago, http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/23ybk8/just_came_back_from_hospital_for_appendix_rupture/

but it's such a big amount that I couldn't let go,

TLDR:, the address is from my blockchain.info wallet, I made a big mistake importing it to my main wallet, forgot about it, and one day decided to randomly pick an address to receive 151 BTC, turned out that I picked that address, 2 months later, 150 BTC traveled on its own out of the address, it took me 5 days to realized the loss.

I wasn't sure how I signed up for my blockchain.info wallet. I cannot find prove that I used browser to sign up that day, there is a slight chance that it could be an android device.

You are unusually calm about losing $180k at $1200 per coin. That said, file a report with the police, doubt they will do anything but this amount of money is not small.

Considering 1 BTC = 500 USD, he has lost 75500 USD for 151 Coins. But, probably he considers it as 1 BTC = 1 USD.

It seems he did CPU mining and own thousands of coins. Back from hospital means ...he may be quite old and money does not signify much to him anymore.

ok the person who stole your BTC seems to be very clever. He has split the 150BTC into small amounts and is constantly moving the BTC around. There is no way in hell you are going to see your BTC again.

Next time consider doing cold storage. And if you are to lazy pay me and I will do it for you.

couldve been a girl ;)


Anyway:

https://blockchain.info/tree/54804358

People allways think its easy to "follow the money trail". Just open that tree for a few steps and you will notice that other coins come into the mix. Very fast you can no longer see where the original 150 coins are and where other coins came in.



Im sorry for your loss. Looks like you can take it as an expensive lesson though.

no, it's hard earned money, and I'm sick of it. I got hit by a string of bad luck since october, starting by popping shoulder in ocean while surfing, cracked another wrist a few months later wakeboarding, diagnosed with anal fistula, went through ass operation, upon recovery appendix suddenly bursted, went through another surgery, came back home, checked the wallet, and kaboom !

It seems there are lots of Blockchain.info phishing attacks these days. Could that be the cause? Did you have that address' private key stored in Blockchain.info?
If so, do you use Google to visit Blockchain.info? (search for the site and click the result - that makes phishing very easy, scammers buy Google Ads)

If you don't but still had the private key on Blockchain.info, maybe you used the same password on other websites.

Sounds like the coin is going through a tumbler? If that's the case, good luck getting it back.

Really sorry for your lossa and these health issues.
Though I have no idea how your bitcoin was lost, I think the chance for you to get them back is very close to 0.

Fell bad for u...I have been hacked aswell. Didn`t lost that many coins but still it was a big loss for me..they really need to be stoped...they are having a very bad influence on bitcoin

Sorry to hear this happen to you.

I feel like more are getting hacked these days.. this is like the 3rd post I heard for a large amount of bitcoins stolen.

Seems like theres more phishing going around, usually the whole going to the old wallet address is a back up issue..

But just incase, have you contacted blockchain support? what did they say?

Pleas follow the tree mentioned here. If u ever come accross funds are crossing 1LQQkqtWWruiofuD8jkMHxD5jMdKk7Vuh6, report us here.

Ref: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588644.0

i dont think there is anything you can really do. it would be nice if you could go to the police and have them track someone down but we all should know that its probally not likely

Your coins are long gone, tough luck!

Condolences.  :(

Since you said on reddit


You may as well announce...

"30 BTC no questions asked reward for return of my 150 coins"

Then if he has an associate willing to rat him out to local law enforcement you might be in luck, or you may interest a greyhat who likes doing ummm "helpful" things "for great justice".

That's huge amount, its very sad that you lost big amount of btc

They might report it to a cybercrime divison then it will get investigated.

That is huge amount of bitcoins to be lost. Did you bought this bitcoins or mined them at the early stage?

May all go well after this event sorry.

Sorry to hear your loss and it is definitely a painful lesson...

Such a waste of money , you will recover it

It was poor judgement on your part.  I'm sorry from your loss, and let's hope that you can learn from it and not keep 151 BTC lying around in a single, online wallet. ;)

Honest question (not trying to hit you when you are down) by why would you reuse an existing address to receive new funds?

Hate reading things like this as apart from anything else, any of us could be next. I know I have my BTC in a paper wallet but I worry about something like this happening when I eventually bring them out of cold storage to sell them. I had intended to sweep them into my blockchain wallet & from there send them to the company that I use to buy & sell through, but I am concerned that in the short time they'd be in my blockchain wallet, they could disappear.

However, hopefully 'security' will be tightened by then; I'm not intending selling any BTC in the near future unless there's a MASSIVE bubble :)

Sorry to hear your huge loss. :(

It is generally not a good idea to re-use your addresses, even if they are safe.

I didn't want to back up my wallet so often which involves retrieving some usbs under a few trees. Well, I should have used keypool=100000 and forget this bullshit. And I was on an impression that reusing address is not so bad in practice.

I'm not sure if any clarified you on this but I'd bet my last cent that it was as a result of a flaw in security on you're end rather than a collision with someone attaining the same private key as you. I'm sorry for your loss but if you still have a significant sum of coins I would suggest you look into cold storage for safekeeping and a smaller hot wallet for day to day spending. I'm doubtful anyone would need 60k worth of liquidity in Bitcoin for their day to day transactions.

Has there ever been even one case of anyone recovering coins lost in this manner? I'd think not.

AFAIK there have been a couple of incidents where people managed to get their coin back but it was only because they managed to get the thief's dox and threaten to post them publicly. However in general for people who lose coins to an anonymous thief it is hard to track them down and hassle them to return the stolen coins.

Now focus on keeping the remaining 1k safe.

That's one of the reasons why people convert their BTC to FIAT money, because they feel their money are more safe in FIAT and sometimes things happen like for this dude when you keep your wealth in BTC =/

Damn thats alot of coins to lose. Good luck I hope you get something back.

I believe only Android systems were affected due to RNG flaw, and you had reuse the same address. Today many peoples/services reuse the same address and I didnt heard of any losses because of this, so I consider it safe

Very sad. It's rather big amount of money but even police unlikely can do anything to hepl you.

Sorry to hear. I lost small amount from blockchain.info don't know how. You can't trust anybody in crypto-world.

blockchain.info is an online wallet?

Thats a real big amount, any luck on their support to recover your btc?

Sorry for your loss. I believe the chances of someone else generating ur keys are still very slim. This must be the work of malware

Though you have sole control of your private keys on blockchain.info wallet (unlike on exchanges), your bitcoin can be stolen with malware on your computer.

Sorry to hear your loss.
I don't think you can recover the loss, and I suggest you to create a new paper wallet or offline wallet and put majority of your bitcoin in it now.

Have you recovered your money?

Ouch, that sounds really harsh.
I hope you will manage somehow, life is great, money is not everything.

Well that is really alot of money, i have considerably less bitcoins than him, but i take 100x more precautions.

It must be one of the worst days in a persons life to wake up with empty wallet  :(

The most right thing to do. I'm astonished about his loss (sorry). Seems like him has ten times more and use them like cents.

150 BTC is really a huge huge amount of money. Must be careful every time when dealing.

It's a big loss. So sorry for this. I can't imagine even to have those bitcoins. But if, I will be sure to not will lose those in such way.

I'm really sorry for your loss, but never ever keep more than 1 BTC in one address! I have slightly lower amount than this and I have even 3x more addresses than BTC and if one of my private keys is hacked, I don't really care..

as said in this thread a few times already... thats a LOT of money. also OP has much more, but that doesnt make the loss any easier to bear.

OP, sorry, but there is little to no chance to get your funds returned... you are only a member rank, but you have so many btc... were you an early miner? its wierd because i would assume, from the amount of btc you hold that you must have been around for a while.

It just goes to show you, no matter how much you think you understand btc and your own safety, you can be victimized.

I lost ~6 btc last year to some hack. I bought a ledger wallet the next day.

OP needs to get a hardware wallet.

sorry bro.

How much BTC does he have and ho do you know it? Are you friends? I would probably kill yourself for a 150 BTC loss because of a "mistake".. that's terrible :(

wow it so much bitcoin amount
most important that you have to thinking about it is not about how much you're losed your money itsmore about how you're let them go and mae yourself free and relax

Holy crap.. man.

I dont know what to say, but my mouth kinda dropped when i saw the #. In the future though, you should test the amount youre sending not like all at once cause i noticed its the easy simple mistakes that happen way more.

Eg: mistyping amount to .1 when its supposed to be like 0.01

I know the mistake isnt the same as sending 150 btc, but its like how most forget to also back up a dat file and falls under the basics category with bitcoin. So sorry though this happen to you..

Ah crap guys this is a 1 year old post, i`m sure he already earned back his losses since then.

It's obvious to not use online wallets for so big sums of money.

Lose 150 BTC when the price was almost at the top, sad.

See the good side, if you have 150 BTCs to lose, even at current prices, you already are ahead of most people that maybe won't hold such large sums in his whole life, then you probably will recover with less effort than normal people would take to gather 150 BTC