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Can I ever recover my Bitcoin?
by
fanya
on 22/12/2024, 17:18:26 UTC
Many years ago I doomed my Bitcoin and lost access to them. I have nothing left besides the locked Electrum file, a locked Zip Archive containing my private keys in plain text and my public key. I am tearing my hair out for years now. I thought I was safe if I create multiple types of storage. The Zip Archive and the Electrum file have different passwords too if I remember it right. The seed is also in my Zip file since I thought I can just save it on many USBs instead of a paper. The risk of one USB failing wouldn‘t bother me. I also thought I can somehow prove ownership with my public key since you can not get it unless the wallet has a spending transaction. I didn‘t know what I was thinking. I was never really technical into Bitcoin. Like a guy who uses a smartphone but doesn‘t now how it looks inside.

No need to judge me, it was a stupid idea to save it that way but it was also more like a gimmick to me. I believed in Bitcoin and I never throwed anything away although its locked. I saved my stuff on so many USBs.

I know a guy who is a bit technical and he told me that there might be a small chance that a security flow will be discovered since I created my wallet with a early version of electrum and the locked Zip Archive was also created around this time.

What do you guys think? Do you think there will ever be a security flow within the implementation of the Zip encryption or early versions of Electrum?

Of course I am award of scammers and I will not hand out my files to anyone.