Will pay 10 BTC to someone that can help

[BTCLeviathan]

Hi everyone—has anyone here ever dealt with an OP_EQUALVERIFY error on a P2PKH wallet? I’ve been trying nonstop to fix it myself but no luck, and there’s a sizeable BTC balance trapped inside.

If you’ve got deep experience with Bitcoin Script and raw transaction crafting, I’d love your help. I’m ready to pay a generous fee once the funds are successfully broadcast.

— What I need:
• Analyze the script failure
• Correct the OP_EQUALVERIFY condition
• Construct, sign & broadcast a valid P2PKH raw TX

Shoot me a DM if you can get this sorted discreetly. Serious experts only, please.

[Charles-Tim]

What wallet are you referring to?

If you have the wallet seed phrase or private key, why not just import it on another wallet and see if you can be able to spend the coins on the other wallet.

You can make use of Bluewallet or Electrum wallet for it.

[Medusah]

Why don't you post the script in here for everyone to see?

[pooya87]

What exactly is the problem here because P2PKH is a very straight forward script and you don't need to do anything special in order to spend your coins if you actually have the private key. Just import that key into any popular wallet like Electrum and spend your coins!

If you don't have the private key...

• Correct the OP_EQUALVERIFY condition

You'd need to find a random 256-bit private key that produces a public key that can produce the same 160-bit hash. This kind of collision is impossible to find.
Don't waste your time and others'.

[BTCLeviathan]

Ya well I loaded it into electrum it's a wallet.dat I came across recovering old hardrives and I found it about a year ago I gave up on it cuz I figured it was fake but then I look at it again and someone broadcasted some transactions on july4 so Im thinking it is a real wallet 

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Ya well I loaded it into electrum it's a wallet.dat I came across recovering old hardrives and I found it about a year ago I gave up on it cuz I figured it was fake but then I look at it again and someone broadcasted some transactions on july4 so Im thinking it is a real wallet  

So then obviously the wallet does not belong to you. You will find no help here for your attempted theft of someone else's coins.

[BTCLeviathan]

Actually there abandoned not theft

[NotFuzzyWarm]

someone broadcasted some transactions on july4 so Im thinking it is a real wallet  

If as you said the wallet is active then it is NOT abandoned and yes it IS theft.

[HeRetiK]

someone broadcasted some transactions on july4 so Im thinking it is a real wallet  

If as you said the wallet is active then it is NOT abandoned and yes it IS theft.

In addition to what NotFuzzyWarm already said, my guess is that you got scammed by being sold a watch-only wallet rather than "finding it on an old hard drive"; IIRC this type of scam was rather common a few years back.

[ABCbits]

Ya well I loaded it into electrum it's a wallet.dat

Based on the filename (wallet.dat), it's generated by Bitcoin Core (it used to be called "Bitcoin-Qt" and "Bitcoin") and Electrum does not support that wallet file format. Electrum usually generate wallet file without extension.

[Lucius]

For all those who want to "play" with such files, keep in mind that it may be possible to insert something malicious into such a file. Instead of 10 BTC, you get an infected computer and all crypto from hot wallets (if you have any) wiped.

I posted the standard recovery procedure for the kind of corruption described here.  It seems to be being ignored.

I would take a substantial bet that the OP here is either scamming or is going to get scammed.

As an aside, it is not safe to use potentially malicious wallet.dat files.  Anyone who gets sent a wallet.dat from a third party should take great care in using it. I would not be shocked if it were possible to get arbitrary code execution from a wallet.dat file.  If a bad guy found a way to do that the best way to exploit that discovery would be to pose as someone who corrupted their wallet and encourages people to try to 'scam' them by getting a copy of their wallet or help them with a promise of an outsized reward.

[mcdouglasx]

This type of proposal raises many red flags, making the post suspicious.

1- You're a new user.
2- You're offering an exorbitant reward.
3- You're requesting private messages.
4- You're admitting that the bitcoins aren't yours.
5- You're asking for help fixing a script, which, in a timely manner, is an easy task for many.

[BTCLeviathan]

Ya well if u think it is a scam then think it Im willing to travel to whoeva thinks they can do it and have them do it on my laptop so...

[Btcspot]

 Let me know man, maybe i can help. What wallet or how you got the error.

[nc50lc]

Ya well if u think it is a scam then think it Im willing to travel to whoeva thinks they can do it and have them do it on my laptop so...

The problem is, those technically inclined members who could do it can already tell that it's not doable just from the OP_EQUALVERIFY error alone.

Basically, it's telling you that the public key in the scriptSig that your wallet has provided doesn't satisfy the condition of the locking script which is should be "equal" to its RIPEMD160[SHA256(pubKey)] hash.

Since it's Electrum, inserting another extended public key to an existing wallet is as easy as editing a text file. (unencrypt the wallet->swap the xpub->encrypt the wallet)
That will result with the high-value transaction(s) associated with that xpub matched with the wallet's original xprv (which obviously wont work during spend)

[BitBastard]

If it has the 1FeeX address in it, it's fake.