8,000 bitcoin Lost because of the blue death screen.

[serveria.com]

Looks pretty suspicious or a joke. Having a hard drive with 400 million dollars, instead of finding the best masters in reality, he goes to the forum to ask... Are you the author? gkelly 15Z5YJaaNSxeynvr6uW6jQZLwq3n1Hu6RX https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24346.0 Make a complete copy of the hard disk (image) and upload it here and we'll see what you can do 

Indeed, very suspicious. I've seen posts before by scammers trying to hack inactive wallets with huge amounts of BTC inside (probably owner died or missing). If you manage to persuade forum users to hack this wallet with huge balance which doesn't belong to you, you can afford a 100BTC bounty right? So anyone willing to help be aware. 

[digaran]

So anyone willing to help be aware. 

Help with what exactly? It's a bought fake wallet with no actual private keys, I just don't understand why people keep such large amounts on a single exposed public key.

When you want to be your own bank, you should also do what bankers do, doing some work to keep the money safe, in bitcoin is as simple as holding the coins on a fresh address with no exposed public key. But we don't really know what has happened to some of these wallets and their owners.

[serveria.com]

So anyone willing to help be aware. 

Help with what exactly? It's a bought fake wallet with no actual private keys, I just don't understand why people keep such large amounts on a single exposed public key.

When you want to be your own bank, you should also do what bankers do, doing some work to keep the money safe, in bitcoin is as simple as holding the coins on a fresh address with no exposed public key. But we don't really know what has happened to some of these wallets and their owners.

With recovering the funds. Read the thread, there are people actually volunteering to help. 

As to keeping huge amounts in a single wallet, if it was created back in 2010 it's possible because 8k BTC was peanuts back then and there was no reason to split or somehow protect it additionally. 

[nutildah]

With recovering the funds. Read the thread, there are people actually volunteering to help. 

As to keeping huge amounts in a single wallet, if it was created back in 2010 it's possible because 8k BTC was peanuts back then and there was no reason to split or somehow protect it additionally. 

There never was 8k BTC at stake here. The OP never had the corresponding wallet.dat. He bought it from somewhere. It came with the backstory he presented. If you'd have read the thread you'd have known it wasn't actually his wallet but belonged to an old miner who had a separate account on this forum. OP was oblivious to all this.

This story is such a bs attempt to grasp attention.

Nothing OP tells us here is summing up.
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Now OP waits until 2021 to tell the world that he lost access to his wallet in NOV 2010 and comes up 11 Years later to the most visited Bitcoin forum on the internet?

OP found out about bitcointalk.org just now, even though he knew Bitcoin in 2009?

You might want to ask this guy https://twitter.com/gkelly - who probably is the real owner of the wallet in question. I doubt he wants to talk about his wallet too much, but hey, its the interwebs, ask him.

[lang4d]

I always myself if I have to write this or not, But all solutions are exhausted, and I hope someone can help.

The first time I heard about bitcoin was in 2010  - ( exact DEC/2009), I thought it was just a token or something ridiculous to give as tips..etc ( tbh Worth nothing, something that could fail and be another fad),
I was managing some websites and playing games, After few months (July 2010)  I decided to create a flash gaming website for Adsense lol all I know that period was google Adsense, My idea was different I wanted to reward players with bitcoins and make money from Ads, I've created multiple addresses and made few transactions and bought more coins ... I found a freelancer for this task and paid him to start the job, and agreed that website will be ready by the end of November... things were going as I wanted and I was busy with other stuff.
My life changed that month (NOV), I was doing some work as usual ( routine: checking forums ... new niches..etc) I turned off my computer the screen shows update configuration something like that with an alert "don't turn off your computer", I was working on windows 7 Pro On IBM. Guess what happened after the shit update ?! Windows keeps restarting 4 or 5 times, a blue screen loaded saying that there is a problem with windows and I have to check hardware and some codes.
I've tried to restore the system to a specific date, They mention the update time and if I want to restore the system data and settings before the update, I did what I had to do but nothing is changed, F*CK!
I didn't care about bitcoin the problem was with text files (login and passwords ) and some serious data on C drive.
Luckily I had ubuntu portable on CD. I've copied all necessary files pictures to E drive missed some text files and install windows 7 again and turned off Windows update.
I've abandoned my previous idea and a lot of ideas just because of the shit happened.
Fast forward to 2013, This when I heard about bitcoin again since November 2010, wow with The Bitcoins that I have, my wealth will be around 80K$ I was the happiest man that day ( but just for few minutes) I've checked E drive and didn't find anything that has relation with bitcoin !! shit!) I spent all day searching for bitcoin files and nothing.
After doing some research about bitcoin and where coins are stored I figure out that there is a hidden file in App data, (shit !!)
I attempted to find a solution to restore deleted files I've tested several tools for recovery data, I got the wallet.dat after spending hours of search, you can't imagine my feeling when I saw the file lol...  I moved the file to the bitcoin core folder and run the program... it shows corrupt -salvage failed! (F*****CK).
I  created a copy for wallet.dat and tested all bitcoin core versions especially the old version also the same version used the first time. But the same result all the time. I spent weeks if not months looking for a solution starting from this forum with the same case and Reddit ... I used also the Pywallet script and still no success... I thought the issue from the recovery tool so tested all-new recovery software, there was hope with one program that was able to recover some old pictures, Was able to recover the wallet.dat file too ..and again the same result. "Corrupted shit file".

Maybe someone can help with a good solution, I remember that I created a password for that wallet, please leave me comments with a potential solution, If I was able to move the bitcoins then sure 100 BTC will be given to the first person, leave me good and positive comments and mention also your bitcoin address So I can make a drop with 1BTC for the next 100 comments.
I don't know if I have to laugh or cry while watching bitcoin these days.
I'm Broke, my hopes were all high and euphoric then right after low and dreadful ..there is no specific moral to this story.

For Bitcoin address: ( it makes me sick)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15Z5YJaaNSxeynvr6uW6jQZLwq3n1Hu6RX

Microsoft ruined my life that day! I don't know if I have to blame them or myself, November still the worst month for me ( I had abdominal surgery last Nov 2020)... anyway it is a promise, keep an eye on it. Backup your files that is all!


Screenshot for the issue : file recovery : https://prnt.sc/1032smd
Picture for HDD ( https://prnt.sc/10fmpij ) and IBM (https://prnt.sc/10fmqbl).

I got a copy of this wallet from the Internet earlier, but it is encrypted.

[nutildah]

I got a copy of this wallet from the Internet earlier, but it is encrypted.

How do you know its that wallet 

[LoyceV]

I got a copy of this wallet from the Internet earlier, but it is encrypted.

How do you know its that wallet 

The seller must have told him

[ABCbits]

I got a copy of this wallet from the Internet earlier, but it is encrypted.

How do you know its that wallet 

If you search Bitcoin address mentioned by OP on Google search, you can find some website trying to sell or share fake wallet.dat "containing" that address.

[seoincorporation]

Well, we are talking about $515 millions, for sure OP will do anything to recover them.

The problem is that OP created his account, made the post, and never came back again, that way is hard to help him, if i were in his shoes i would contact the best expert for this, and from my point of view the right guy to help him is Joe Grand, he have shown us in his youtube channel his awesome hacker skills to deal with hardware and lost coins, i will leave his YT channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@JoeGrand

[odolvlobo]

Well, we are talking about $515 millions, for sure OP will do anything to recover them.
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if i were in his shoes i would contact the best expert for this

That expert would tell you not to bother because you are wasting your time.

[Cricktor]

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Now what, does it surprise you that the (very very likely faked) wallet.dat file is encrypted? It's obviously encrypted because the scammer who likely sold you the file doesn't want his gullible victims to find out too quickly that they were scammed. Out of curiosity: how much did you pay for it?

And for what purpose did you full quote the OP exactly? 

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The whole story sounds quite a bit made up and you don't really believe the OP, do you? If I were a fake wallet.dat seller/scammer, I'd post such bullshit with one of my alts to draw attention for my "new" precious wallet file.