Could you please just provide more clarification on what the text is? I still have no idea how the text looks. Is it 70 character blocks? Or is it 70x50 blocks? Is there a new line after each 70 characters? Did you copy paste these files from somewhere or do you remember if you gnerated them yourself the first time?

What?

It's a reference by the way : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

The first items shipped and made it! Bought another 300$, went smooth as well.

10 BTC.

THAT's his loophole? Lol.

Purchased 200$ worth of amazon credits, items ordered and everything looking good so far, will update trust rating when they ship and arrive!

Thanks for the tip, now I'm gonna run a program that iterates through all prime numbers up to infinity and scoop up all your sats 

According to their CEO tweet :

https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda/status/1366614366435483651

1) you can now get *instant* fiat deposits on FTX

2) you can now deposit *any currency*, more or less.  Paypal converts for you.

3) Paypal charges are fees!  If you're doing a large transfer, wires are slower but cheaper.

4) credit card deposits work through it!

It's feasible today through their platform :



What do you guys think?

Binance most definitely will help him.



Open a ticket with binance or speak to live chat (it takes a while to queue for live chat). Best case scenario is this thief was KYC'd, worst case scenario he used binance to "mix" the money, and they only know his e-mail and IP (potentially behind a VPN). It doesn't harm to try though.

I'm the one that sent crypto and received PP. Most people here claiming "I've never been scammed" should be more careful. The concept of selective scamming is simple :

1. Have a "perfectly legitimate account" with valid KYC
2. Fake trades with other "legitimate accounts"
3. Build a profile such as the one above
4. Receive 1 trade from someone outside your fake trades network
5. Scam them with your "legitimate account"

Sometimes verification of kyc details will not really help you identify these, and the scammer could even be able to provide selfies. Just be more careful.


This is interesting, I've browsed listings and didn't see these until today. What does "verified" imply?

I got scammed using Binance P2P.

The seller's username was chalupa, they had over 500+ trades with a very high "completion" ratio, and a full ID-ed profile. I used Paypal, I know I should have asked for an ID and a selfie to verify the person had the correct details, but I considered the high profile rating something worthy of trust, it wasn't.

Here's the binance profile of this seller :



I think these scammers are running fake account networks, and wash trading between each other to pump up the numbers in the ratings, while in reality they don't really mean much. I made sure to report the profile to support, but I'm making this post to warn other users on here to not trust anyone on Binance P2P, this "selective scamming" problem is extremely hard to pinpoint, because the seller could scam select users and still continue operations that increase their profile ratings for every single scam they pull off. Please only trade in small amounts until you build your own list of trusted people.

Also, I'm trying to recover my funds and if there's any Australian willing to help me out it'd be appreciated, there is someone I need to contact there related to this situation. (I'll leave a tip!) Cheers!

dont understand, use an exchange?

This is what I meant, or share the code you used. Sorry if it sounds a bit rude but all we have is your word that "it doesnt work", have you really tested your code correctly and verified that even after iterating through all the options it didnt work? Are you sure you're generating the seed using the same method bitaddress.org uses? Are you sure you're checking the address using the right derivation? There's so many things you have to double check to see if your code is correct that I'm more inclined to believe it's something wrong on your end, not the dice roll or the cut.

This sounds reasonable, what's your problem? Have you successfully coded the "dice roll to private key" part?

I dont trade paypal with newbies

I did this trade elsewhere too. Closing.

no problem, wish you better luck on your future trades.

Can do any amount. I am looking to sell a maximum of 1,000$ to paypal.
Please keep minimum tx amount to 100$. I pay PP fees.
Comment here & PM me.

Could you try findwallet and see if it still works?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5071775.0

Please install it first, then disconnect & run it offline. It should extract and dump the private keys in a text file in the same folder.

I've looked into it, and while I couldn't really work around the Windows 10 permission issue, (It's out of my hands, you just simply can't get read access on some folders or files as they might be currently used by other core processes) I added a flag that ignores errors and will keep scanning even if it runs into inaccessible files.

I wish I could manually handle that error when that happens, but it would need me to rewrite my own scanning code and I currently don't have that much time to sink into this.

https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob/issues/284#issuecomment-297567660

The issue is currently still open, and I would like to not lose the dependency on "glob" because it is THE fastest reading package I've tested. I've also updated all versions while I was at it.

So while this won't run into permission errors anymore, you still should know that it will skip files it doesn't have permission to access, if you suspect your wallet was in one of those files, simply plug the drive externally, or run it on a unix-based system.