Online Wallet Recovery Services

[Effingham Hoofnagle]

I have a (thankfully) small wallet that I've been trying unsuccessfully to restore for awhile, mainly using btcrecover.

I see a few online services with impressive websites that offer to recover wallets and only charge a % if successful.

I'm curious if there is much experience with any online wallet recovery services within this group, and am looking for "reviews" of any experience with any of these services.

Please don't message/offer to try to recover  my wallet yourself. Im just interested in bona-fide experiences with any online services.

Thanks.

[Bitfort]

I see the problem in: Once you hand over the wallet file and your clues to pass/mnemonic you can't take it back.

Things may end up in situation they tell you the recovery was unsuccessful while they'll keep trying secretly (eventually succeed weeks later).
I guess with small amount you might be sort of "safe" as most likely they would not risk bad feedbacks due to some dust amounts and their target could be to cumulate positive feedback (from small amount users) while waiting for lager chunk to seize.

Maybe you can try making a bounty topic in Service section and wait for some reputable users to get in touch with you.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Wallet recovery services are very risky for you to use. You have to be very careful when you are choosing a service to recover your wallet.

[overview] Recover Bitcoin from any old storage format
https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover
https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/docs/Seedrecover_Quick_Start_Guide.md
https://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/. They have good reputation.
- https://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/testimonials/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8z926h/dave_bitcoin_from_walletrecoveryservices_did_it/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8pmlog/dave_from_wallet_recovery_services_does_it_again/
- https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/docs/Extract_Scripts.md
Ann thread: Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services - for forgotten wallet password

[keychainX]

I have a (thankfully) small wallet that I've been trying unsuccessfully to restore for awhile, mainly using btcrecover.

I see a few online services with impressive websites that offer to recover wallets and only charge a % if successful.

I'm curious if there is much experience with any online wallet recovery services within this group, and am looking for "reviews" of any experience with any of these services.

Please don't message/offer to try to recover  my wallet yourself. Im just interested in bona-fide experiences with any online services.

Thanks.

check their Trustpilot

[pakhitheboss]

Since the amount is very small you can give it a try. Personally I do not believe it is possible to recover wallet.

Paid service do ask for upfront fees sometime, avoid those as most of the time they will say they were unsuccessful in recovering the wallet and they will then never refund you the fee.

[Lucius]

The only service that has a good reputation is listed in the post from SquirrelJulietGarden, and I think that their fee of 20% (15% above $100k value of wallet) is quite acceptable considering the service they offer. The only unknowns in this case are the amount and complexity of the procedure - so although I haven't found if there is a minimum amount for which they will try to recover the wallet, it makes no sense to spend resources on complex cases for amounts less than the cost of the whole procedure.

Effingham Hoofnagle, peek into Development & Technical Discussion > Wallet software and Bitcoin Technical Support, maybe you get another idea of how to try to do something yourself.

[CrossroadBTC]

I don't believe in wallet recovery by a third party, if the rightful owner can't get his or her hands on the private keys it's gone for good, anyone telling you they can recover this are probably going to waste you more money because they won't do it for free

[ranochigo]

If it's a wallet.dat file or something similar, then Dave from walletrecoveryservices would probably be your best bet. You won't have to send over the entire file but just the relevant data of the password.

[NeuroticFish]

I see a few online services with impressive websites that offer to recover wallets and only charge a % if successful.

I would not trust just random websites over the internet. Keep in mind that you hand over sensitive data which they may use to steal the full content of the wallet.
But I've read nice words about Dave ( Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services - for forgotten wallet password ) also from people I trust (example).
So I'd start from there.

[Oshosondy]

I can not trust a recovery service, most will ask for seed phrase, assuming I give a recovery service my seed phrase and was able to recover back the wallet but tells me he was unable to, that means my bitcoin all lost, who will know if he did or he did not recover back the wallet? No one will be able to. It will be good to have all possible means to protect our seed phrase which is just the only task, if lost, it can lead to permanent loss of our bitcoin.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

I can not trust a recovery service, most will ask for seed phrase, assuming I give a recovery service my seed phrase and was able to recover back the wallet but tells me he was unable to, that means my bitcoin all lost, who will know if he did or he did not recover back the wallet? No one will be able to. It will be good to have all possible means to protect our seed phrase which is just the only task, if lost, it can lead to permanent loss of our bitcoin.

Do you know what you are talking about?

Do you need to use any wallet recovery service if you have seeds or private key of your bitcoin wallet?
What are private keys or mnemonic seeds used for?

[Oshosondy]

Do you know what you are talking about?

Do you need to use any wallet recovery service if you have seeds or private key of your bitcoin wallet?
What are private keys or mnemonic seeds used for?

Maybe you did not get what I meant, try to read and understand before quoting someone's post.

If seed phrase or private key to the bitcoin is well protected, will the OP need recovery service? No.

Only the seed phrase or the private key is enough to recover the bitcoin.

[Effingham Hoofnagle]

Thank you to all who have taken the time to offer their helpful thoughts.

I think I am going to give walletrecoveryservices.com a try (Dave Bitcoin).
He charges nothing if unsuccessful and 15% if sucessful.

I will know if he was successful because there is only one unspent UTXO in the wallet, and I can monitor it.

He comes with a personal-use recommendation from Stephanie Murphy of The Bitcoin Talk podcast,
and interestingly, out of all the similar services online he is the only one who provides a PGP pubkey on his site
and pushes people to use it. If he scams me, I will let Stephanie know, and let her broadcast it.

I will report back here later on this. I am aware of the risks, and willing to accept them.

Thanks again.

[Lordhermes]

I have never used any seed recovery service before but there is a service available for recovering your lost seed, his name is NotATether, although he charges 10% of what's in the wallet and have some terms and conditions to follow. You can contact him here on his service thread.

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[Lucius]

I think I am going to give walletrecoveryservices.com a try (Dave Bitcoin).
He charges nothing if unsuccessful and 15% if sucessful.

15% is only if the wallet is worth more than $100 000, and if the whole procedure can be completed in one week. Everything else is charged with 20% of what is recovered.

Our standard fee is 20% of the value of the wallet, only if we are successful. Zero otherwise
If your wallet is valued over $100K USD, then we offer a lower fee of 15% for an initial phase of tests.
(generally takes around a week).
If that fails, it indicates the password is more complex or uncommon. We will reach out to you to discuss reverting to our standard fee for further rounds of attempts.

If he scams me, I will let Stephanie know, and let her broadcast it.

I have no personal experience with him, but I have never read that anyone has complained about his services - the man has built a reputation that certainly brings him a very nice profit.

[Oshosondy]

I have never used any seed recovery service before but there is a service available for recovering your lost seed, his name is NotATether, although he charges 10% of what's in the wallet and have some terms and conditions to follow. You can contact him here on his service thread.

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This recovery service can be good but it is temporary, only for 30 days since when he created the thread or will not just last as he borrowed the GPU for other reasons, he just want to use it for recovery service simultaneous to the main purpose.

Members like Dave can be trustworthy too but people should know to try all possible means before using recovery service as remaining part seed phrase, password and such information might be demanded for, the person will not also know if the srecovery works or not until the recovery service says it has work, if it works and the recovery services says it did not work, the bitcoin owner will not know if it works.

[Effingham Hoofnagle]

I think I am going to give walletrecoveryservices.com a try (Dave Bitcoin).
He charges nothing if unsuccessful and 15% if sucessful.

15% is only if the wallet is worth more than $100 000, and if the whole procedure can be completed in one week. Everything else is charged with 20% of what is recovered.

Our standard fee is 20% of the value of the wallet, only if we are successful. Zero otherwise
If your wallet is valued over $100K USD, then we offer a lower fee of 15% for an initial phase of tests.
(generally takes around a week).
If that fails, it indicates the password is more complex or uncommon. We will reach out to you to discuss reverting to our standard fee for further rounds of attempts.

If he scams me, I will let Stephanie know, and let her broadcast it.

I have no personal experience with him, but I have never read that anyone has complained about his services - the man has built a reputation that certainly brings him a very nice profit.

Yes, my memory failed me when writing that he charged 15%, it is indeed 20%.

Having said that, he cracked my wallet in about 2 hours. I've been using btcrecover on it for 2 years with no luck.
I received an encrypted email saying that he was successful, and had already taken his 20%. He gave me the correct passphrase and urged me to move the coins to a different wallet and never
use the passphrase again.

I would not hesitate to use him again and have passed his URL along to friends and family.

Thanks for your thoughts.

[ElenaApatanova]

I think I am going to give walletrecoveryservices.com a try (Dave Bitcoin).
He charges nothing if unsuccessful and 15% if sucessful.

15% is only if the wallet is worth more than $100 000, and if the whole procedure can be completed in one week. Everything else is charged with 20% of what is recovered.

Our standard fee is 20% of the value of the wallet, only if we are successful. Zero otherwise
If your wallet is valued over $100K USD, then we offer a lower fee of 15% for an initial phase of tests.
(generally takes around a week).
If that fails, it indicates the password is more complex or uncommon. We will reach out to you to discuss reverting to our standard fee for further rounds of attempts.

If he scams me, I will let Stephanie know, and let her broadcast it.

I have no personal experience with him, but I have never read that anyone has complained about his services - the man has built a reputation that certainly brings him a very nice profit.

Yes, my memory failed me when writing that he charged 15%, it is indeed 20%.

Having said that, he cracked my wallet in about 2 hours. I've been using btcrecover on it for 2 years with no luck.
I received an encrypted email saying that he was successful, and had already taken his 20%. He gave me the correct passphrase and urged me to move the coins to a different wallet and never
use the passphrase again.

I would not hesitate to use him again and have passed his URL along to friends and family.

Thanks for your thoughts.

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