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Re: Broken mp4, contains btc from 2009-2010
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MGAMGA
on 19/06/2025, 13:18:18 UTC
What did you save onto an MP4 player? The wallet.dat? The seed phrase? And why did you do that on an MP4 player? How about providing any kind of proof. Pictures of the MP4 player, proof of purchase, bank statements, etc.

To be fair, I believe this to be a scam. Nobody would be dumb enough to pay you $500k for a potential chance of recovering the BTC from the flash memory.

This is not a scam. I can show pictures if needed – I’m new to this platform, and everything I wrote is the truth. I have no intention of deceiving anyone.

This goes back 15–16 years, so it’s hard for me to prove everything, but that doesn’t make it any less real.

Please try to put yourself in my shoes:
You have an old MP4 player where you saved some Bitcoin many years ago, back when you first bought it.
Now, years later, you’ve found it again, but you don’t have the tools or knowledge to access what’s on it.
That’s my situation.



What did you save onto an MP4 player? The wallet.dat? The seed phrase? And why did you do that on an MP4 player? How about providing any kind of proof. Pictures of the MP4 player, proof of purchase, bank statements, etc.

To be fair, I believe this to be a scam. Nobody would be dumb enough to pay you $500k for a potential chance of recovering the BTC from the flash memory.

This is not a scam. I can show pictures if needed – I’m new to this platform, and everything I wrote is the truth. I have no intention of deceiving anyone.

This goes back 15–16 years, so it’s hard for me to prove everything, but that doesn’t make it any less real.

Please try to put yourself in my shoes:
You have an old MP4 player where you saved some Bitcoin many years ago, back when you first bought it.
Now, years later, you’ve found it again, but you don’t have the tools or knowledge to access what’s on it.
That’s my situation.

I understand what you’re saying — it would be easy to scam people without proof.
But I wouldn’t be stupid to sell it for nothing, since I know there is Bitcoin on it.
I’ve already received several smaller offers, all of which I rejected.



You can post photos here even if you don't have copper+ membership, basically by uploading the images to Ibb.co, and then sharing the URL, from what i can understand you're hungarian or you live in Hungary, you've spent 5k to 10k forints on Bitcoin in 2009-2010, that's around 30$ tops, if you check https://charts.bitbo.io/if-i-bought/ that would be about ~30K btc in 2009 Nov, anywhere between 2009 to 2010's end you would have at least above a 100 bitcoins, which is currently priced about 10M$, OP you may not be lying but the nature of the internet is Very Skeptical, nobody's going to buy an MP4 Player off of you for just the "chance" of it containing bitcoin, there are a multitude of things that can go wrong, even if the MP4 Player does have the Bitcoin Wallet/mnemonics, the Wallet could be drained, emptied, or even locked with a password that you might've forgotten, it's 15 years ago anyway.

Nobody would risk that sum of money, best case scenario is find someone who can fix/zombify the mp4, zombify basically means stripping the motherboard from the electronics that are bad and putting new ones, hoping for the best, or by reviving it at a low voltage just enough to extract data from, still your best bet is to have the memory removed from that motherboard and put on an identical one that works.