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November 27, 2013, 10:26:35 PM
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What about the guy that threw his HDD with 7600 coins and is now digging through dirt to find it?
I doubt that he will find it though. From what I've read he has no money to get people to find it for him either.

He could just offer a reward from the £4.2m in BTC on there. He doesn't need to pay upfront.
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November 27, 2013, 10:37:13 PM
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Wallets didn't have password protection 4 years ago.
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November 27, 2013, 11:09:57 PM
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He could just offer a reward from the £4.2m in BTC on there. He doesn't need to pay upfront.
You're right.
I'd make a generous offer of $100k or more if it's found and wallet works.

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November 27, 2013, 11:17:18 PM
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Wallets didn't have password protection 4 years ago.

Pure win.

Not so fast.  Fairly ancient wallets seem to load fine into the modern codebase.  Seems possible that an older wallet could be encrypted in anything past 0.4.  I've not tried it though since I think that encrypting wallets using bitcoin-qt is stupid in a lot of cases.  In fact, I've never even run anything but straight bitcoind.

OTOH, it seems equally or more likely that the whole $10M loss is a sham story.


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November 27, 2013, 11:22:33 PM
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any wallet could have been manually encrypted with PGP no?

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November 27, 2013, 11:59:48 PM
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idiot.
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November 28, 2013, 03:56:04 AM
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I have the password. How do I get the reward?

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November 28, 2013, 06:44:39 AM
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that would be depressing.

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November 28, 2013, 06:48:59 AM
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fake

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November 28, 2013, 08:50:56 AM
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The answer will be found in the future
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November 28, 2013, 01:02:29 PM
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fake

without blockchain.info link of the address it really looks like a fake

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November 28, 2013, 01:21:48 PM
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I also operate a password recovery service. Indeed you don't need to risk any money - to discover and validate a password only requires empty Bitcoin addresses from the wallet.

If this is not a scam the person should be able to go back to the exchange where they bought their coins and get a screenshot of the transaction history. Of course you can fake that but it'd help provide some substance to the claim.

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