HCP

  That is the same one that I found on the web... and NO! It is not he answer. I personally labeled it "ACE.dat" because it was the "ACE" up my sleeve. The post that you found is the same one I found. There is only ONE result with that SPECIFIC information on the ENTIRE WEB!!! So, HCP... you fail. But, thank you for taking any amount of time to try and help me. I know helping people try to recover from their own mistakes takes effort and I am grateful.


But, seriously... I KNOW my file is the right one. I know what, when, and where it was made, encrypted, and placed. I'm working more on this.

Thanks again HCP.

Oh, I'm not asking anyone to hack the file or help to hack it. I'm just trying to retrace my steps. I bought it, created a trouble ticket with the exchange (sadly don't remember which one.... really, I've slept since then.) that I bought it from, (to make sure there was more than just a purchase record. See what I did there....) made a backup, put some photos of my kids in the folder with it so that I wouldn't delete it, then made another backup... because hell, we all make mistakes and bloody forget crap. Then joined a mining group with my wife's computer. (this ended up being bad because it steadily got slower over the years and she hated the "fast computer" I bought her) Walked into the living room and announced, "I've taken care of college for our kids." Since then... life kicked me in the sweet spot and memories fade on some of the details. Because, the "devil is in the details." Right Craig Wright? Asshat. Oh, Bitcoin was around $.05 at the time (I put it on a credit card... another source of record) and it has crashed all the way to ~$64,800 since. I guess my kids are going to college.

I'm also pretty certain I know who wrote the bitcoin white paper... and it's not the Asshat CSW.

NOT a joke or anything. That's why I'm here... I'm purposefully NOT including the file name.

This is some of the contents of the file.


Created By Insun Kang, Young-Seok Kim, Kyoung-Gu Woo, Heegyu Jin, Kyung-Sub Min, Taewon Lee, Dongseop Kwon, KyungWha Hong, Shin HoChul, Ki Yong Lee, DongJin Choi, Ilhwan Choi, Dongjoon Hyun, Seokjin Hong, Ki Yong Lee, SangJung Woo, Hyoungmin Park, Chuho Chang


Maybe it will jog someone's mind

So... In 2010 I bought some Bitcoin. Did an offline encrypted cold storage wallet. It was a, "It's my daughters birthday I'm going to buy this in case "number go up" and I can send her to college." I'm pretty sure my wallet has been passed around on hacker forums. This whole business with Craig Steven Wright claiming practically ALL OLD ADDRESSES that haven't moved got me very upset. Anyway, I did some digging and found my wallet. I'm very nervous posting because it makes you a target. I'm just not sure if I am using the wrong software. I'm pretty computer savy but it's been so long since I've done anything with bitcoin. I know it will take a lot longer to do this solo. So here it goes...

Bitcoin Client Software and Version Number:           Electrum 4.1.2
Operating System:                                                Windows 10 Home 64-bit
System Hardware Specs:                                       i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, RAM 32.0 GB, 500 GB SSD
Description of Problem:                                         Attempted restore fails. Error: Cannot load wallet(1): UnicodeDecodeError('UTF-8', )............    then a bunch of what looks like header information. \x00\x10\x80\
Any Related Addresses:                                         1PeizMg76Cf96nUQrYg8xuoZWLQozU5zGW
Any Related Transaction IDs:
Screenshot of the problem:
Log Files from the Bitcoin Client: