Need Help Cracking Old Bitcoin Wallet — Hash Inside

[user_h4shc4t]

Hey everyone! I really need some help here. I found a wallet.dat from 2013–2014 with some balance, but I have zero memory of the password—it’s been ages.

I’m not a tech expert, but I managed to extract the hash using bitcoin2john and I’m running Hashcat to crack it. I’ve tried multiple wordlists from Weakpass, but nothing has worked so far.

I’m willing to pay anyone who can help me recover the password. Seriously, any help would mean a lot. Thanks!

$bitcoin$64$7d7aa6c495c3a225c2b01d1e67a2c26d6b3b82e4faa50a7f4082e63f27f4eb01$16$b815969dc507bfa9$64247$2$00$2$00

[bullbandit9]

If this is real and there is significant money involved, you should contact this reputable company. I hope I got the right link.

http://walletrecoveryservices.com
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240779.0

Hey everyone! I really need some help here. I found a wallet.dat from 2013–2014 with some balance, but I have zero memory of the password—it’s been ages.

If you don't know anything, but the password is very long and secure then you will have no real chance of breaking it. In this case one should hope that your password was crap. 

[ABCbits]

but I have zero memory of the password—it’s been ages.

I’ve tried multiple wordlists from Weakpass, but nothing has worked so far.

Have you tried using all password characteristic that you use for other usage?

I’m willing to pay anyone who can help me recover the password. Seriously, any help would mean a lot. Thanks!

People and recovery services is unlikely to try when you have no idea of the password characteristic.

[BattleDog]

2013–2014 Core wallet.dat is crackable only if you remember real password traits. Pure brute force is a lottery.

Confirm type: Core wallet.dat, not Electrum or BIP38. Make sure the hash you extracted is recognized by your tool. Keep multiple read-only backups of the original file.

Write down characteristics you actually used back then: length range, words you leaned on, capital pattern, separators, years, 2–4 trailing digits, symbols you liked, l33t habits, keyboard layout you used then, and whether you ever used spaces.

Mine old data for hints: email subjects, forum usernames, Wi-Fi names, gamer tags, band names, pets, phone numbers, license plates, addresses, birthdays. Old notebooks and screenshots help more than wordlists. Narrow the search space: without constraints like length and character set, nobody will crack a Core wallet from that era. Never share the wallet.dat publicly, only the hash. Run any cracking tools in a VM, verify downloads, and keep the machine offline.

About services: legitimate recoveries will ask for those password characteristics and will not ask you to send coins first. Get terms in writing, only pay on success, and verify their long-standing reputation here on the forum.

If you can list 5–10 concrete traits you used back then, folks here can suggest a targeted approach. Without that, it is almost certainly a dead end.

[theunionjack]

Dont waste your time on here mate. I've have a similar experience re.encyrption. My advice is download & pay the $51 per month for Grok4. Tell it what you know. Ask it to evaluate the hash & give you a breakdown. Hopefully you get a value in bytes or bits you can work with.

Then get it to list all the encrytion methods unrelated to BTC with wordlists cause anything is possible. Ask it to create a script using all the encrytion methods you find, input the hash. It will weave some magic & hopefully spit out what you need.

Personally I have no idea what the hash represents. If AI can't figure it out straight away ask it more questions, search for terms you find familiar & do some more thinking.

I believe in you bro. If it is possible you will get there if you persist. I'd give it a shot for you but ive actually got no idea what the fuck im talking about or whether or not its even possible. I think its best you try it yourself. It will be so much more rewarding plus you might actually learn something.

The replies you get here are to slow & can be inaccurate. AI is instant & can give answers to your questions in great detail.

Goodluck

[NotFuzzyWarm]

The replies you get here are to slow & can be inaccurate.

Slow is true, inaccurate - bull. When a post has invalid info it is soon corrected by folks with better knowledge on the subject.

AI is instant & can give answers to your questions in great detail.

And regarding even what should be very basic questions, AI answers are also VERY often embarrassingly WRONG.
eg, Q: "What is bitcoin mining?"  Usual answer is "mining involves using specialized computers to solve complex mathematical equations" which is 100% wrong - BTC miners are brute-forcing a solution using gazillions of sequential random guesses, there is no equation solving involved.

Without someone to step in to say, 'ehem... that ain't right' you can be pursuing incorrect solutions.

[Mushai]

You  should probably ask on the hash cat forums. Using wordlists isn't going to work unless you used a password on that list.

You need to get creative with masks : https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mask_attack

[flatfly]

Bruteforcing the password (using a strong GPU setup) is feasible if the password is short, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

Over the years I managed to help other users recover their wallet passwords, using my GPU rig - of course, this is only feasible if the password isn't too strong.  My most recent successfully recovery was this one (Electrum password):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228226.20

My fee is more reasonable and backlog shorter than some of the larger recovery companies. Happy to provide more detail by PM.
 
Note that the more context information you can provide, the better the odds of success. Also, I don't work on stolen wallets.