Hello
Recently I have recovered and old wallet of mine from a really old laptop. I used to have By checking the wallet on the blockchain it shows it has just over 1 BTC
Also I cannot cash out on the funds as the wallet is password protected. I followed a YouTube video on bruteforcing the wallet.dat file but no luck.
I contacted people online and they asked to send over the file but I'm quite hesitant. I need some advice here. Thanks
You can try to bruteforce the wallet password by yourself.
A more words, characters in the password you can remember, the higher chance you can bruteforce it.
If you have big enough fund in bitcoin, you can try to use Wallet Recovery Service like
Make sure you get different copies of your wallet files before doing anything like bruteforce the password or use that service.