I've received another wallet file examine email from Christopher Gurnee owner of btcrecover,
That really stinks, but you probably got scammed
Heres the way the Bitcoin software works.
In order to determine how much bitcoin you have, it scans the entire blockchain for all of your addresses to find all of your transactions, both send and receive. If it had to scan the entire blockchain every time you started the software, this would take too long. Instead, it saves transactions that it finds in your wallet.dat file, and each time you start the software, it starts scanning from where it last finished.
The wallet.dat file you sent me has been modified. Somebody removed a bunch of transactions (including a lot of transactions which emptied the wallet), specifically they removed all of the transactions between Feb-16-2014 and Apr-27-2014. They left in a few transactions after Apr-27-2014 (and some other data) in the wallet.dat which fooled the Bitcoin software into thinking that it didnt need to rescan the entire blockchain, and so it never tried to find those missing transactions.
You can force the Bitcoin software to rescan the entire blockchain for all of your transactions by running this on Windows (first exit Bitcoin):
C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\ bitcoin-qt.exe -zapwallettxes=1 -rescan
It will take about an hour before the Bitcoin window appears.
I included 4 screenshots, 2 before running the rescan (named fake), and 2 after running the rescan (named real). If you look at the transaction (tx) screenshots, youll see that the highlighted transaction is present in both real and fake, but above that a bunch of transactions are missing from fake.
Heres the first transaction missing from the fake screenshot (blockchain.info link) https://blockchain.info/tx/2649634a0cf6cd32d236c2e743024eb52647b153916a0fa628395a8a9f43c085 . Its a send transaction, and the two from addresses, 1HeysdyVWNcaV9oPhgaHFSfHT5yiKgah7a and 176jVRkAfDAaevQJXScjQ8rXSi6n6UvY5w, can be found in the wallet.dat (File menu -> receiving address ). However the transaction linked above cant be found in the wallet.dat until after you do the rescan.
The very unfortunate bottom line is that this wallet has practically nothing in it, just two satoshi.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but theres not much anyone can do about it
Best Regards,
Chris
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https://image.prntscr.com/image/Sgn04LxNRhOpy66MYwRdsQ.png
qa-real-overview
https://image.prntscr.com/image/RGw_0mt2T_2V-ofrfv7Smw.png
qa-real-tx
https://image.prntscr.com/image/IH0o3GacTBqbJfQQw1pBig.png
That really stinks, but you probably got scammed
Heres the way the Bitcoin software works.
In order to determine how much bitcoin you have, it scans the entire blockchain for all of your addresses to find all of your transactions, both send and receive. If it had to scan the entire blockchain every time you started the software, this would take too long. Instead, it saves transactions that it finds in your wallet.dat file, and each time you start the software, it starts scanning from where it last finished.
The wallet.dat file you sent me has been modified. Somebody removed a bunch of transactions (including a lot of transactions which emptied the wallet), specifically they removed all of the transactions between Feb-16-2014 and Apr-27-2014. They left in a few transactions after Apr-27-2014 (and some other data) in the wallet.dat which fooled the Bitcoin software into thinking that it didnt need to rescan the entire blockchain, and so it never tried to find those missing transactions.
You can force the Bitcoin software to rescan the entire blockchain for all of your transactions by running this on Windows (first exit Bitcoin):
C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\ bitcoin-qt.exe -zapwallettxes=1 -rescan
It will take about an hour before the Bitcoin window appears.
I included 4 screenshots, 2 before running the rescan (named fake), and 2 after running the rescan (named real). If you look at the transaction (tx) screenshots, youll see that the highlighted transaction is present in both real and fake, but above that a bunch of transactions are missing from fake.
Heres the first transaction missing from the fake screenshot (blockchain.info link) https://blockchain.info/tx/2649634a0cf6cd32d236c2e743024eb52647b153916a0fa628395a8a9f43c085 . Its a send transaction, and the two from addresses, 1HeysdyVWNcaV9oPhgaHFSfHT5yiKgah7a and 176jVRkAfDAaevQJXScjQ8rXSi6n6UvY5w, can be found in the wallet.dat (File menu -> receiving address ). However the transaction linked above cant be found in the wallet.dat until after you do the rescan.
The very unfortunate bottom line is that this wallet has practically nothing in it, just two satoshi.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but theres not much anyone can do about it
Best Regards,
Chris
qa-fake-overview
https://image.prntscr.com/image/uTYNGFmNTMqhoYFLgHtm-A.png
qa-fake-tx
https://image.prntscr.com/image/Sgn04LxNRhOpy66MYwRdsQ.png
qa-real-overview
https://image.prntscr.com/image/RGw_0mt2T_2V-ofrfv7Smw.png
qa-real-tx
https://image.prntscr.com/image/IH0o3GacTBqbJfQQw1pBig.png
