My friend gave me a wallet.dat file that was on his old computer. His computer was burnt, but the disk is still alive with the wallet.dat file on it. The file was transferred to my personal computer, but there is a problem.
Some people have told me that the wallet.dat file is corrupted.
Are these people telling the truth?
The people who say how much is in the wallet claim there is 689 BTC.
How do they know how much there is? The transactions that my friend made appear with the date 1970.1.1.
I really don't know what that is; I'm not into BTC or trading.
The important thing is, my friend said whoever can solve this problem will be given 12 BTC as a reward.
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Bitcoin Core - Warning
Warning: Error reading C: \Users\C
\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin wallets\**\wallet.dat! Transaction data may be missing or incorrect. Rescanning wallet.
I'm sorry, but I've got to ask these questions even though I may not get answers to them.
What exactly is the topic of your post " Hello everyone"? And secondly, who gets 12 BTC, the person who solves what's causing the problem on the forum or the person who can recover the 689 BTC?
If this isn't some kind of riddle, and it happens to be a real-life situation, then I'll first say that a burnt computer with a hard disk that is still functioning is really remarkable. I can assume that's how you were able to find the wallet.dat, and now that you've found something that valuable, there's a high probability that it's corrupted and inaccessible. That's sad.
Now, how old exactly is your friend to have his last transaction in 1970? I really got confused with this one and I went on to research it. Turns out, that particular day 1970.1.1 is known as the Unix epoch. When wallet software encounters corrupted and uninitialized timestamps, they automatically lead to the Unix epoch.
You failed to mention who the people giving you information about your friend's computers are. But in case you don't want to trust them, there may actually be no need to trust them. Let me remind you that wallet.dat has private keys and you can easily access the Bitcoin in connection to your friend's BTC address. This seems like a fair solution, doesn't it? Try gaining the private keys and transfer the BTC into another newly opened wallet.