Is there Any recourse for victims of this scam?

Xtn cognitive services name may also being used to collect on the victims

As a user who held crypto on bitfinex at the time I didn't see any value in their tokens being offered.  Also there were reports  of an inside job.  I would just like the % of my lost crypto back. 

Is there a reason why no class action lawsuit has not happened?

As the previous poster stated, the coins belonged to the users. 

hi there,
I'm wondering if there are any public tools to do an advanced search on the BTC blockchain, for example;

All transactions that match:
Date range e.g. October 20-30th, 2013.
where coin transfer amount = 4
From existing wallet with balance > 0
To new wallet with balance < 0

Reason is to help a friend who lost track of his wallet address, but still has his password. The senders address is unavailable.

Thankyou

As someone who's entered (and won) creative writing advertising competitions, this prize pool is pretty light on.
Unless your target market is developing countries, most influencers in western countries wouldn't put their time at less than $50/hr. It might take them 3hrs just to complete an entry, and then only one 1st prize pays $250?

Also Tezos is a legitimate coin, why not pay out in your own coin, that would help establish that you think it is of its own inherent value. Plus surely it's easier to pay in your own token.

Otherwise creative competitions are an excellent way to create organic growth.

Very interesting. I did some social review factors on this project. I dont have the skills to check their code or go tech indepth. 
Website register: private
Team: anonymous
Public influencer promoting: Youtuber - Dallas Rushing. Also working on their support team , so obviously incentivized.
Dallas' background: some few years of posting legit quality content about Crypto space. Also previously promoted Digipulse (defunct) and XYO network.
Twitter: looks legit, no sock puppeting going on/fake promo tweets.
Support team: come across as down to earth, not scammy, typical 4chan/meme sort of people really.
Reddit: 1 promo post. 1 high karma person endorsed.
Website: quality info to read about.

They have tech documents where it's claimed they pay close attention to vetting the projects in their pool.
And offering various levels of risk across their various planets.
Not sure how to validate their claims of vetting projects.

One thing I don't quite understand, I have a wallet but can't view my public key/receiving address at all, without downloading the entire history of the blockchain... If I had that info, I could just punch that into here? http://www.homebitcoin.com/easybalance/

I might just try that. If I do, should I do it this way?


Last time I did this, I had to restart it after the first day because it crashed.

Unfortunately the Recieve address is totally empty. If I can get the address I'll use the tool though Thanks Maxz.

If I had done it differently at the beginning, by replacing the wallet.dat default file with my old one, before launching the BitcoinCore and indexing, would it have worked properly? Maybe it's better I uninstall,reinstall, and do that step?

When the index updates the blockchain, once it gets to the time period that any coins came in, around 2013, will the wallet balance then show up in Bitcoincore? So if there's anything in there I would know at least in the early days?

I don't suppose there is any easier way? It takes days to download it all again.

If I can find some coins out of this, I'm going to change my username to Charlieandthechocolatefactory, I really need some chocolate about now

The help here is really great thanks.

The bitcoin.conf file doesn't exist. But I had a look in the apps settings;
There is a "prune block storage" setting?
http://prntscr.com/w0lz64

Otherwise I can go to advanced settings config and it will create that file by the looks (but it opens empty). 

Thanks a bunch for the info. So are you saying I have something? Is that because the debug.log mentions some coins at the end of it?

I've pointed the console to the original wallet.dat file (because it gets changed/enlarged in the default wallet location). So that is the original 80kb wallet file:

00:28:28

dumpwallet "C:\Users\PETER\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\wallets\pc dec 12 wallet\walletpc2.dat"


00:28:28

C:\Users\PETER\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\wallets\pc dec 12 wallet\walletpc2.dat already exists. If you are sure this is what you want, move it out of the way first (code -8)


00:29:34

dumpprivkey "C:\Users\PETER\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\wallets\pc dec 12 wallet\walletpc2.dat"


00:29:37

Invalid Bitcoin address (code -5)

Here is debug.log
https://drive.google.com/file/d/113BVQbFT3yZQE3EM4LEYAOjYDL5ZOdXB/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for that advice.

I don't know where the private key is at this stage. But I'm trying to avoid the process of hunting for it unless I can verify there is some coins in the wallet first. Is there a way I can extract the public key from the wallet?

It took nearly 4 days to download the blockchain, hoping to avoid that again.

Hi,

I started this thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5297530.msg55794505

And have managed to follow those instructions as per below.

I've got a 2013 wallet on an old PC. Around that time I joined BTC guild and did a little mining. I cannot remember how long I did it for. I'm also not sure if the satoshi went to the wallet.dat file or into the guild under my username.

The old PC is not working properly, so I copied the wallet.dat to a new PC. Downloaded BitcoinCore, updated the blockchain, and then copied the wallet.dat into the bitcoin wallet folders.

When I try to view the wallet after it says Loading blocks
I get this error, then it shuts down.
http://prntscr.com/vznvx8

What should I do?

Thanks

I did the steps you mentioned, thanks. And after it says Loading blocks
I get this error, then it shuts down. 
http://prntscr.com/vznvx8

I"m wondering if the wallet was setup properly, small chance its damaged but that would be unlikely or if it's just too old for the current software.

Is there any other way to extract the public key from it and then look up transactions on that?

The blockchain update has been running for about 60hrs now and it's 87% done.
I'm on a fast NBN connection and computer too. Wow - what a long wait.

Thanks ETF.

Update: ran the -reindex switch again and its started updating again back from the beginning. Will see how that goes.
thanks for all the suggestions and help.


Yep, downloaded bitcoin core, and left it running to update the core blocks, it had done up to around 2011. I came back home couple hours later, and looks like it has terminated itself. Program not visible, not hiding in tasktray either. Gone from windows processes.

I ran it again and get error that it needs reindexing.
http://prntscr.com/vxd4yv

So I ran from the command line;
C:\Program Files\Bitcoin>bitcoin-qt.exe -reindex
And that says cannot obtain a lock on data directory, Bitcoin core is probably already running.
https://prnt.sc/vxd87k

Not sure wether to believe the first error or the second one.

Please pardon my ignorance, I just haven't dealt much with PC wallets.

Trying the bitcoin.org wallet now (downloading the core - ETA 6 weeks, it was originally 11 years lol )
There's a couple obstacles with this recovery attempt;
BTC Guild may have grabbed whatever balance I had. (So I will try the wallet balance method and then secondly I have messaged the owner via reddit but no response yet).
The private key is not immediately known to me and it may require some hunting to track it down. But I'm thinking at this stage,it's only worth going down this road if there is some balance that is even recoverable?

The wallet.dat file did contain various folders similar to what you mentioned.
I've copied just the wallet.dat file to a modern computer.
Installed Electrum, and where it asks for the wallet at the loadup, I pointed it to the wallet files path, and it gave an error (which i'm just posting a snippet of it);

Cannot read file
UnicodeDecodeError('utf-8', b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00b1\x05\x00\t\x00\x00\x00\x00 \x00\x00\x00\t\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\t\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00 \x00\x00\x00\xd9\x8c\x04\x00\x00\x00=\x00N\x89&\x1b\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00 \x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x


Is the wallet format too old for electrum?

thankyou.