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Board MultiBit
Re: Multibit problems?
by
HCP
on 30/06/2018, 08:17:43 UTC
Ive just went through all wallets that are there and imported them into electrum. They key that was on my slush pool is saying coinsd have went in and out by the looks of it. how would i go about tracing my coins or is there someone who could look at it and try get my coins back?
Tracing the coins? Next to impossible for an "average person" if the person who moved the coins has taken some fairly simple steps (mixers and so forth)... But you can also do some basic research and follow the chain of transactions and use google and/or services like walletexplorer.com. You might get lucky and find a public reference to that ties an online identity to a given bitcoin address. If the sums are large enough, you might be able to get law enforcement agencies involved.

Additionally, there are also blockchain analysis and forensics companies in existence that specialise in the tracking of coins... but from what I understand, they charge significant fees... and generally work for law enforcement agencies etc. They don't really have any ability to recover funds.

At the end of the day... getting the coins back is pretty much impossible. Once they are moved to some place where you don't have the private key(s), then you have no way of moving those coins, unless the person who does control the private keys agrees to move them. Undecided


NOTE: Be wary of anyone asking for an upfront fee to assist with any of this... the chances of you a. finding the person who has your coins and/or b. retrieving those coins is slim to none.