REWARD 1 BTC! Electrum wallet help me!

[m1kmrt]

thats weird indeed
something is wrong with your electrum wallet for sure.
can you share an address with a balance?
if you right click on your wallet (electrum one) and select open with "Notepad" do you see that address there

also from where do you have wallet.dat? i have read the full topic but didnt understood what that file has to do with your electrum wallet file which doesnt contain the extension .dat
did you name your wallet "wallet.dat" when you have created it in electrum?

Initially, since the creation of my electrum wallet, I used only the wallet.dat file when opening electrum, I never opened my wallet on an old laptop using a seed or a private key, after transferring my electrum folder with blockchain headers files. wallet.dat and others that I described earlier on a new computer, it began to give these errors, yes, I called my wallet like that, yesterday I tried to restore it again as they wrote here using btc core and it just can’t be read, I never used this file in other wallets, I only used it in electrum. I can rename it whatever I want.

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[LoyceV]

As far as you all know, I would not have these files if I just bought a normal corrupted one date wallet file

So you bought a scam-wallet with additional files. You're wasting everyone's time.

@LoyceV he said that he didn't buy the wallet

That's such a weird and oddly specific thing to say for a Newbie with a problem

[m1kmrt]

thats weird indeed
something is wrong with your electrum wallet for sure.
can you share an address with a balance?
if you right click on your wallet (electrum one) and select open with "Notepad" do you see that address there

also from where do you have wallet.dat? i have read the full topic but didnt understood what that file has to do with your electrum wallet file which doesnt contain the extension .dat
did you name your wallet "wallet.dat" when you have created it in electrum?

can I somehow manually delete those line lines that give errors? Are there other ways to recover? If opening a file with notepad helps me somehow, then let's do it together step by step

[Minase]

you said that the last time you used the wallet was maybe in 2019
but you have outgoing transactions in 2020 / 2021 and 2022
and indeed this wallet is empty.
are you sure this is the correct wallet and that you weren't hacked during this time?

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DO NOT EDIT THE WALLET NO MATTER WHAT!!!
do you still have the original one on the old laptop?

@LoyceV he said that he didn't buy the wallet

[m1kmrt]

you said that the last time you used the wallet was maybe in 2019
but you have outgoing transactions in 2020 / 2021 and 2022
and indeed this wallet is empty.
are you sure this is the correct wallet and that you weren't hacked during this time?

//EDIT
DO NOT EDIT THE WALLET NO MATTER WHAT!!!
do you still have the original one on the old laptop?

@LoyceV he said that he didn't buy the wallet

i meant that i used it in 2019 on an old laptop, after that i transferred it to another wallet along with other files (just transferred the folder) and it did not give these errors even in 2022, in 2023 i bought another laptop and transferred the folder from files on a new laptop, as I did in 2019, installed electrum and go to the wallet and it gave these errors. On an old laptop, I deleted everything and sold it a few months ago. Yes, I am sure that I was not hacked, because the last laptop was completely removed and no one knew about the existence of electrum, no one could steal my bitcoins. I'm telling you, when you open wallet dat, it gives these errors that are in the screenshots, connected to the Internet, addresses and bylans are also my old ones

As far as you all know, I would not have these files if I just bought a normal corrupted one date wallet file

So you bought a scam-wallet with additional files. You're wasting everyone's time.

@LoyceV he said that he didn't buy the wallet

That's such a weird and oddly specific thing to say for a Newbie with a problem

that I'm newbie does it matter? I turned to the forum because I did not find a solution to my problem on the Internet, what would you do in my place? Are we here to argue or try to solve the problem? I am even ready to reward the person who helps me because I am in a hopeless situation

[Minase]

@LoyceV i just thought that you misread his message, thats all  
@m1kmrt it doesnt really matter if you are a newbie or veteran here, but based on everyone experience lot's of new people come here to ask for help for fake wallets (which they bought) .

but whats really strange is that you posted a screenshot with this address in your wallet 1FpqQnKQCgDkJFMC94JL8FpRyHTZ3uRVZ1 but is not derived from that xpub (tried over 50 derivation paths with like 1000 addresses)
Also that address has a long long history (back in july 2011) and from what i saw electrum was released in november 2011

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also your second address ( 1JtpgqCf3SSeCeYWEDJjkfYFH7Ruhy4Vp1 ) dates back to december of 2010, really weird

Did you transfer your funds from bitcoin core to electrum?

[m1kmrt]

@LoyceV i just thought that you misread his message, thats all  
@m1kmrt it doesnt really matter if you are a newbie or veteran here, but based on everyone experience lot's of new people come here to ask for help for fake wallets (which they bought) .

but whats really strange is that you posted a screenshot with this address in your wallet 1FpqQnKQCgDkJFMC94JL8FpRyHTZ3uRVZ1 but is not derived from that xpub (tried over 50 derivation paths with like 1000 addresses)
Also that address has a long long history (back in july 2011) and from what i saw electrum was released in november 2011

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also your second address ( 1JtpgqCf3SSeCeYWEDJjkfYFH7Ruhy4Vp1 ) dates back to december of 2010, really weird

Did you transfer your funds from bitcoin core to electrum?

I don't remember what I did in 2011, maybe yes, I also mined in 2011-2013, but it doesn't matter. All that I have on hand now is wallet_1.dat, daemon, config, recent_servers, blockchain_headers, these files were in the folder that I extracted from electrum on an old laptop and transferred
this whole folder is called electrum_data

[Minase]

what i'm saying it's that it is impossible for this to be an authentic electrum wallet because in your screenshot you have addresses  "derived from the extended public key" from 2010.
In that year electrum with it's extended pubkeys was not released and bitcoin core didnt have this functionality.

somebody correct me if im wrong

[m1kmrt]

what i'm saying it's that it is impossible for this to be an authentic electrum wallet because in your screenshot you have addresses  "derived from the extended public key" from 2010.
In that year electrum with it's extended pubkeys was not released and bitcoin core didnt have this functionality.

somebody correct me if im wrong

I described all the errors that I have. I have more than one file on hand, I have also repeatedly said that xprv, xpub and seed give me something other than the wallet_1.dat file with errors. Perhaps an older version of electrum will help me?
I don't understand what you mean, am I able to restore the file from what I have or not?

[Minase]

i really dont think you have any funds in that wallet.
the errors you are having with wallet_1.dat is because the wallet itself was modified by somebody and included those old addresses with funds (only addresses not the private keys).
also from your screenshots you have a balance of ~ 0.1 BTC in that modified wallet and you are offering 1BTC for 0.1 ?? something is not adding up.

[m1kmrt]

i really dont think you have any funds in that wallet.
the errors you are having with wallet_1.dat is because the wallet itself was modified by somebody and included those old addresses with funds (only addresses not the private keys).
also from your screenshots you have a balance of ~ 0.1 BTC in that modified wallet and you are offering 1BTC for 0.1 ?? something is not adding up.

do you see all the addresses in the screenshot? I have 104 addresses, can you solve my problem? Then I'll wait for someone to help me, we have an empty conversation? I have more than 1 bitcoin, I left such a large reward due to the fact that I am in a hopeless situation

[nc50lc]

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So it's the latter: means that the master public key may be intact but the master private key doesn't match the addresses in the wallet file.
In cases like this restoring the seed phrase is the usual solution, but
since the xpub only restores the old transactions, I'm thinking that the newly generated addresses which are the funded ones are somewhat unrelated to your wallet.

However, upon checking the other screenshot, it appears that there are very old funded addresses sneaked into the wallet file which aren't related to the master key.
The interesting part is, if you enable "LabelSync" plug-in (Tools->Plugins->LabelSync (restart)) there'll be lots of notes on each transaction containing private keys and "I am satoshi" and "JeffreyLee" notes.

You're satoshi, right?
No seriously, I find it difficult for a regular user to add his addresses' private keys as transaction labels.

[m1kmrt]

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https://i.ibb.co/Hx2qKp0/2023-08-10-152342.png

So it's the latter: means that the master public key may be intact but the master private key doesn't match the addresses in the wallet file.
In cases like this restoring the seed phrase is the usual solution, but
since it only restores the old transactions, I'm thinking that the newly generated addresses which are the funded ones are somewhat unrelated to your wallet.

However, upon checking the master public key, it appears that there are very old funded addresses sneaked into the wallet file which aren't related to the master key.
The interesting part is, if you enable "LabelSync" plug-in (Tools->Plugins->LabelSync (restart)) there'll be lots of notes in each transactions containing private keys and "I am satoshi" and "JeffreyLee" notes.

You're satoshi, right?
No seriously, I find it difficult for a regular user to add his addresses' private keys as transaction labels.

What are our next steps to resolve these errors?

[Minase]

we dont need to see all addresses, you sorted them based on TX count and the highest TX count is up, but that's not relevant. it could contain even 100.000 BTC


what i'm trying to say here it's that this wallet you are trying to recover is forged 100%
no address with balance was found based on the public key (searched for more than 50.000, impossible for normal user to generate that)
the addresses displayed in electrum are in fact old addresses created with Bitcoin Core long before electrum was available (this fact alone is sufficient for me to mark it as FAKE).

But believe me.. no one can help you recover it because it's not a genuine wallet that's the big problem here.

[nc50lc]

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What are our next steps to resolve these errors?

If newly generated addresses aren't related?
That's unreproducible, means that whatever the corruption did to generate unrelated addresses, it can't be recreated.
Maybe scrambling a few brutefore~able bits here and there but since corruption is mostly random, it'll be hard.

But take note that in P2PKH, there's a 1 out of 2^160 chance for an existing address to be generated by whatever corrupted your wallet.
But I know Electrum is dealing with addresses string so it's lower, in any case,
it's impossible to happen.

[hosseinimr93]

So it's the latter: means that the master public key may be intact but the master private key doesn't match the addresses in the wallet file.

I compared the addresses displayed in images shared by OP and there are a few same addresses.

In very old versions of electrum, it was possible to import a private key into an existing HD wallet.
Maybe, the wallet file has been created using a very old version of electrum and contains imported private keys and the issue is because the imported private keys are not backed up by the seed phrase.
What do you think? Is that possible?

Of course, I still believe that OP has purchased the wallet file.

[Minase]

Not sure if electrum ever allowed this kind of mix (HD and privkey) in the same wallet but if that did happen it was a very long time ago.
if thats the case which i highly doubt, just open the wallet with errors (in notepad) and search for this "keystore"
you will find your private keys there, if you cant find that string you can mark it as 120% fake wallet

[nc50lc]

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What do you think? Is that possible?

I tried to reproduce it with that method: Create a wallet in v1.9.5, import some private keys with transactions, then load the wallet to the latest version.
The result is: it loaded without error but the imported private keys aren't included (to the GUI) but no errors.

Here's the thing,
When I created a new wallet in the latest version, edited the wallet file by adding a funded unrelated address (Puzzle number 79) under "receiving" and "addr_history",
It loaded with the same error as OP and resulted with the same error when tried to broadcast a signed transaction  

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Update regarding imported private keys to an HD wallet which is possible before v2.0:
When opening the wallet file as text, the addresses and keys should be under the line: "imported_keys": {

[m1kmrt]

Not sure if electrum ever allowed this kind of mix (HD and privkey) in the same wallet but if that did happen it was a very long time ago.
if thats the case which i highly doubt, just open the wallet with errors (in notepad) and search for this "keystore"
you will find your private keys there, if you cant find that string you can mark it as 120% fake wallet

explain step by step where I should click and where exactly to look for it, how does it look at all? Open wallet dat with notepad and which line to look for (send a screenshot of the example), my wallet dat file was really created a long time ago

[Minase]

Its not at a specific line just search in notepad (ctrl + f) the word "keystore" without quotes
Or look manually through the file to find if it contains any extra private key in the form

L2swqzRoGrinNgTt9nzf28UUgmTtZgtpfREDACTEDREDACTEDREDA or 5K6eoShWWsgptas3XYGL34xcj66Bn1tREDACTEDREDACTEDREDA