can't restore wallet with over 40k btc in it. Please HELP!

[Tachikoma]

ok, doing the rescan now.  Thank you for the help!  I guess the reward will go to fcmatt if this works since he was the first to respond  I'll let you know the result as soon as the scan is done.

Makes me wonder whether this is a viable business model:
Technical support for large holders of bitcoins who have a lack of computational skills.

Most technical issues however often requires exposure to your wallet to solve things. Which in return requires a lot of trust. It's still an entertaining idea though if you can find the initial few customers who are willing to trust you with their computer and thus wallet

now this prob does not matter but how old is this wallet.dat file? are we talking ancient compared to the bitcoin client you
are running today? Just thinking outside the box... but if it was really old it would probably throw off an error like:
wallet corrupted

It was already fixed, go give him your address!

success!  where would you like your coins sent fcmatt?

[fcmatt]

Matt apparently just made 100 btc, seems like a good days work (~1k dollars).

I would be very amazed to find out I actually get 100 btc out of this.


In case I do here is my address: 18MjdXpTyek3ESTPc2HCQnATv1jY4acUeR

I am trying to think what to do next if this does not work for the OP.
Now you could delete everything (always have a backup of wallet.dat no matter what) and start over. Delete meaning the
blockchain and everything else except the client but basically that was already done.

So what else could be the problem? Hmm

[Lethos]

Matt apparently just made 100 btc, seems like a good days work (~1k dollars).

I would be very amazed to find out I actually get 100 btc out of this.


In case I do here is my address: 18MjdXpTyek3ESTPc2HCQnATv1jY4acUeR

I am trying to think what to do next if this does not work for the OP.
Now you could delete everything (always have a backup of wallet.dat no matter what) and start over. Delete meaning the
blockchain and everything else except the client but basically that was already done.

So what else could be the problem? Hmm

You do realise if what you suggest doesn't work, and what you just suggested now, is what my original suggestion was.
Guess where that btc should go I admit the rescan should work.

[fcmatt]

Matt apparently just made 100 btc, seems like a good days work (~1k dollars).

I would be very amazed to find out I actually get 100 btc out of this.


In case I do here is my address: 18MjdXpTyek3ESTPc2HCQnATv1jY4acUeR

I am trying to think what to do next if this does not work for the OP.
Now you could delete everything (always have a backup of wallet.dat no matter what) and start over. Delete meaning the
blockchain and everything else except the client but basically that was already done.

So what else could be the problem? Hmm

You do realise if what you suggest doesn't work, and what you just suggested now, is what my original suggestion was.
Guess where that btc should go I admit the rescan should work.

true. i got lucky and just happened on this thread at the right time. starting from scratch does not seem reasonable since
it was just done.

[fcmatt]

success!  where would you like your coins sent fcmatt?

18MjdXpTyek3ESTPc2HCQnATv1jY4acUeR

thank you very much.

[Jutarul]

Matt apparently just made 100 btc, seems like a good days work (~1k dollars).

I would be very amazed to find out I actually get 100 btc out of this.


In case I do here is my address: 18MjdXpTyek3ESTPc2HCQnATv1jY4acUeR

I am trying to think what to do next if this does not work for the OP.
Now you could delete everything (always have a backup of wallet.dat no matter what) and start over. Delete meaning the
blockchain and everything else except the client but basically that was already done.

So what else could be the problem? Hmm

You do realise if what you suggest doesn't work, and what you just suggested now, is what my original suggestion was.
Guess where that btc should go I admit the rescan should work.

true. i got lucky and just happened on this thread at the right time. starting from scratch does not seem reasonable since
it was just done.

Can't a man spend 100 BTC in peace? 

It's not as if the forum doesn't contain plenty of threads where this procedure was already outlined....

[Lethos]

Matt apparently just made 100 btc, seems like a good days work (~1k dollars).

I would be very amazed to find out I actually get 100 btc out of this.


In case I do here is my address: 18MjdXpTyek3ESTPc2HCQnATv1jY4acUeR

I am trying to think what to do next if this does not work for the OP.
Now you could delete everything (always have a backup of wallet.dat no matter what) and start over. Delete meaning the
blockchain and everything else except the client but basically that was already done.

So what else could be the problem? Hmm

You do realise if what you suggest doesn't work, and what you just suggested now, is what my original suggestion was.
Guess where that btc should go I admit the rescan should work.

true. i got lucky and just happened on this thread at the right time. starting from scratch does not seem reasonable since
it was just done.

Well done Matt, lucky indeed.

[Tachikoma]

OP Delivers.

[fcmatt]

got the coins. that was supremely generous of you.

good luck with your sizable fortune of BTC! I am jealous of that wallet.

[the joint]

Hell yeah, fcmatt    Congrats.

[bitcon]

nice. a lot faster than calling india also.

[2D]

Geez! I bet those were mined with a CPU too!

[JingleBalls]

Do you also own the other addresses that end in .031337 BTC?

what addresses are those?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92423.0

top 10, grats 

[arobincaron]

Can't a man spend 100 BTC in peace? 

It's not as if the forum doesn't contain plenty of threads where this procedure was already outlined....

An honest man. You earned a lot of respect today!

[16P7cPxX5aGzFijz7uDiQiB3p]

Pretty awesome story bro.   I too have some coins in cold storage and sometimes freak out that I'll never see them again.

[gwern]

Followup: the address in question represented Silk Road 1 profits/balances https://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/3r3s81/how_ulbricht_paid_100_to_learn_about_bitcoind/

[Coinonomous]

Followup: the address in question represented Silk Road 1 profits/balances https://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/3r3s81/how_ulbricht_paid_100_to_learn_about_bitcoind/

Good catch, very interesting!

[Mickeyb]

Followup: the address in question represented Silk Road 1 profits/balances https://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/3r3s81/how_ulbricht_paid_100_to_learn_about_bitcoind/

So how the heck did he manage to organize a whole silk road, Ross Ulbricht, and he didn't know about as basic function as bitcoind-rescan. I don't get it.

He was honest enough to send that reward of 100 bitcoins though. Much respect for that!

[Quickseller]

Followup: the address in question represented Silk Road 1 profits/balances https://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/3r3s81/how_ulbricht_paid_100_to_learn_about_bitcoind/

The address in the OP is almost certainly one that belong(ed) to SilkRoad1.

The OP sent 44k BTC via 7269a8ebe71559e6337cab93fe75340dca91deeeed2af11be86affc9a23b50ab to ba3d545781, which received ~6k BTC via 39f3c6fa684bfe3413cd35179687c6ba04df1649d7427e74118c8bd88c30d7d8 only ~30 minutes later, and the wallet that tx sent "from" belongs to SilkRoad1

[elyas772]

sorry im newbie
i want to ask
i tried ceck your address at blockchain and your balance is zero
https://blockchain.info/address/1MR6pXDZ6gpBVN8n61SqCNF61vU8ZzRu8Y