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

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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. 

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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. 

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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.