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January 05, 2018, 03:53:27 PM
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After years of not looking into bitcoin appart from coincap

My wallet is locked and i can not remember the password Oh well

But my wallet shows two transactions that seem to have been sent from my own wallet address I dont understand why i would have done this?

could someone explain
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January 05, 2018, 04:51:53 PM
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My wallet is locked and i can not remember the password Oh well

If you can remember some characters of your password (or exclude some chars for sure) and its not too long, you can try to bruteforce with btcrecover (https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover).
You'll find more information about the token file, which is used to generate possible passwords, here: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#quick-start.
To run this script you will need to install python (https://www.python.org/downloads/).


But my wallet shows two transactions that seem to have been sent from my own wallet address I dont understand why i would have done this?
could someone explain

Unfortunately no one knows why you sent coins to yourself.
This might be a child-pays-for-parent. But since you didn't touch your wallet for quite a long time i don't think thats the case because there weren't any fee problems in the early stage of BTC.

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January 05, 2018, 05:22:56 PM
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Thanks I have looked into this program And installed python But This is way over my head. I have found this

https://walletdatrecovery.com/

Do you think this is legitimate

I do now what my password should be. I only wanted acess so I could trade in a few other coins


Years ago I mined PPC , Freicoin And a coin that scammed me royally Benjamins . The only thing that is worth something is btc I have 0.049 So very little but Its all i have. And if wallet unlocked that should give me bitcoin gold and cash

Thanks for your help
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January 05, 2018, 06:00:41 PM
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Thanks I have looked into this program And installed python But This is way over my head. I have found this

https://wallet***reco****.com/

Do you think this is legitimate
It's hard to say if anything is legit, but I don't know this one. Which means I would for sure not trust it.

If you're looking for a trusted site, see https://walletrecoveryservices.com/ , but they're also overwhelmed with work at the moment.

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January 05, 2018, 06:16:25 PM
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Nice 1 Allready contacted them. They say too little in the wallet

Thanks for your help
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