I was following this topic for a while and decided now to jump in.
I don't know if I am allowed to post link here so I will provide it through private messaging.

I am sitting here on an old wallet.dat with 50 BTC.
After reading all the comments in this thread I decided to set up a solution to share wallet hashes (not the wallet file).
This solution also splits the brute force tasks among a hashcat connected network of computers.

The only knowledge required is to be able to install python (as well as 2 extensions) to run the client.
It downloads by itself the necessary files (hashcat, the hash files and, if necessary the dictionary files) and share online the resources with the others.

For me the wallet is lost, so if peoples are interest to jump in, they only need to contact me and I'll configure them an account to share the resources.

If we are able to find the password, I will share the 50BTC to all involved participants.