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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Lost seed recovered BTC stolen
by
retroverseworld
on 11/07/2022, 18:48:54 UTC
Thank you all once again. I liked nc50lc's response which explains what I suspected was happening with my original recovery seed phrase; returning zero BTC. Just to clarify a bit more. I have at least four or 5 very old electrum wallets pre-2011; all of which are displaying zero BTC on recovery and now thanks to one of you I know why. One of those wallets is the one with the 10.7mBTC as I've been corrected to say and for which I shared one of the transactions and one of addresses in my last post.
Am I 100% sure that the wallet belongs to me? Yes definitely; who else would it belong to unless, it's the first private key collision on the BTC blockchain ever. I read somewhere that it would take brute force until the end of the Universe to come up with the same seed or to  hack the private key from the public key. If I managed to do that; then I would be hailed a genius or best hacker on the planet. I'm neither; I can assure you that.
Now that's settled; I will try and follow the suggestions in the link posted by nc50lc (thank you) over the next few weeks.

Just to prove my point, if one of you has the time and inclination you could try and recover the coins in this old electrum wallet given by this old seed. (weave circle round thrice close your eyes holy dread honey hath jan) I reckon it could have anything between 8-12 BTC or have been recently recovered and emptied as I shared it already with a recovery agent in the states. I used the addresses to practice sending and receiving BTC to myself just to understand how the process worked. Remember I'm talking about something that was very novel and didn't make much sense back in 2009,2010 or even 2011. Do I have a tonne of BTC out there that I can't get hold off, because I was too negligent and stupid. Damn right I do.
I don't actually mind that the whole world will now know these particular seed phrases; as I want proof that they once held my BTC and that they must trace back to the original address with at least 800-1500 BTC. Does that make sense?