What's meant to happen?

I am curious about him. He showed an oddly friendly reaction to my rewards post, then didn't answer anymore after that.

I meant to update a previously synced wallet with maybe 6 months to a year of chain Tx's.

Sadly not Christmas this year. Maybe Christmas 2045?

The wallet takes all day to sync 3 weeks worth of Tx's. Yet, I bet there are not that many going on.

Is this project left for dead?

How's that "explode" doing?

Hi DJC, effectively I managed to catch them myself very easily. I simply put the IP address they used into various trackers you can use online and they returned 'Privax Ltd' which owns 'Hidemyass' VPN.

I had the date and time logs from my email account and asked Microsoft for approved official logs. The Police then approached 'Hidemyass' and the their login times and web address visits were matched to a customer account. So at that point we had their names and whatever details were on their VPN account.

Sadly the Police messed it up. After some research, I warned them that 'Hidemyass' could delete all customer details after 3 months. They assured me the VPN company would keep all the details so it wasn't an issue. Then of course they just deleted the details after 3 months were up along with all their other customers. The reason being, the Police failed to get something called a 'single point of contact'. So despite assurances that they would keep the customers details, without the single point of contact they were entitled to delete them. So they did. Less bad press for them I suppose.

So their VPN lived up to their name.

I managed to catch some IP addresses on my email account trying to break in which the Police have followed up on, so the investigations continue.

They don't seem to be particularly good hackers. I just made it insanely easy for them.

My main hope lies for now on anyone who knows them stepping forward and taking a legit half share of what was stolen.

If I do it on my wallet it says Signature verified

Electrum 4.1.2

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Date: 10/05/2021
This is the real owner of the bitcointalk account :Martin958
My bitcointalk profile is: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=314728
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
bc1q5x06na8urh3f9sx6j8d9js00zrltsn4uzp5r6r
H2c46zCwwE0ujWlCuA5k0TKZcOCdGpq8TAiEEpJVykXKWVmBD+g1F057ONiogY0KRTgW9JCqpULvwq11uOHdPQg=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

My bad, the message should simply be: This is the real owner of the bitcointalk account :Martin958

It says the request expires in about 24 hours. Does that have anything to do with it? I don't think the copy/paste was wrong.

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Date: 10/05/2021
This is the real owner of the bitcointalk account :Martin958
My bitcointalk profile is: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=314728
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
bc1q5x06na8urh3f9sx6j8d9js00zrltsn4uzp5r6r
Hy/9LCwYkEZ894Wr539+SftgMM7KmxVgFOrTP5Q3ypizI1yov4Hwbcgoiblpn089O1hGfNKUA2CLzGsG7j3Ght8=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Date: 03/06/2018
Hello this is Martin958
My bitcointalk profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=314728
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN
HIrpXEwzxSLC+5bZY6fTr6JNCg1eahi8OI6XklG0YWTpb727piAQjVgjs52ntch1aCkE/WiPWmupJYhlGigqQGI=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Hello,

I have had my account disabled since a hacker got access to it on 22nd January, 2018 and stole 1.1 LTC

I have sent my photo ID and have satisfied all the requests needed to reopen my account.

But suddenly Kraken is ignoring all emails for a month now.

Why are they not addressing the issue of my account being disabled?

                   BOUNTY ON THE HEAD OF WHOEVER STOLE MY CRYPTO


                                             90,000 XBY

                                               2050 XRP

                                                 10 LTC


Upon successful recovery of funds you will be awarded approximately 50% of my loss shown as the amount indicated above.

All sums must be recovered by myself first.


On the evening of 23rd January as I was at work, someone hacked my email address and requested new passwords to various exchanges. They then proceeded to remove 185,310 XBY....4109 XRP and 22 LTC

Yes I was stupid enough not to have 2FA on my email or even my exchanges. I have been in crypto since 2014 and never been hacked, so I got very complacent and thought it couldn't happen to me.

The Police have been notified and I will be visited by them on Saturday 3rd February to give full details of this fraud/theft.



What I think has happened:

1) Some pro's have got hold of my email address associated with bitcoin exchanges from the darkweb and hacked it, then tried their luck.

2) Someone in Slack and Discord has seen me chatting about my funds + email and targeted me.



I believe the latter has happened for the following reasons:

I have mentioned briefly to people what exchanges I use and what amount I had in them.
I put my email out in slack (as was requested) to receive XFUEL in return for BTC donations I made.
The hacker seemed XBY specific. He attempted twice to get into my CEX account. Once on the night on the attack and again the following morning.
A few other non-XBY exchanges were unaffected.


For any bounty hunters who know this person, I will be very discrete and we can arrange a payment settlement after their identity has been revealed and consequent arrest and retrieval of funds.

For anyone who think they can hunt him here are some details:

My email hacks:





My Bitstamp hack:



My Cryptopia hack:




BTC TXID 438e7b8012bb5270a038959e47d26e4de2f4becf80e7fcc0c29f6c05bd0b1612      WALLET 1JiurQJiUxTfv1A3Fc2xq8CQH5RYroW3g2

BTC TXID ed36388d1f6584ca1833c67093bb7fbdc9973f50728c5203b2c24c98111d3225      WALLET 1AcPpbq8uQsXfiGzqNNBZB5SSiyPCCaSnk

XBY TXID 00af370549e3ceb0be2279c20ec47a1c79580826b5d2bf636f409c215c858b04      WALLET BJM3s8aKQiFZPUW4RdEpeErCwVrcbhkhLi


I would be very grateful for anyone who feels like dobbing in their "friend". Some LTC was a Christmas gift to a relative and not intended for their lousy thieving hands.

If you are the individual in question and you now fear your "friends" perhaps you would like to return the stolen coins and possibly avoid a hefty prison sentence for fraud. I imagine 5 - 10 years or worse if this is not your only crime.


XBY WALLET for return: B6hX4X5DrWBwYp9ufxqihVKHxJtKnY7n4p

XRP WALLET for return: rLHzPsX6oXkzU2qL12kHCH8G8cnZv1rBJh   DESTINATION TAG: 4271410631

LTC WALLET for return: LLjdrFH59x7A9v8v97mUJrxzek4kybgJ3D


I don't hold out too much hope but the world is a strange place and sometime you just can't believe your luck. Thanks in advance for any efforts made.

Great to see all the positive comments on the new thread. For anyone new here, this has become a thriving strong and trustworthy community in general. The Devs and support are certainly on your side, and you can look forward to continuous tech improvements. I thoroughly reccommend.

Could you have downloaded a compromised wallet.exe with built in backdoors? What source did your wallet come from?

Or you could stop wimpering over small words and find a more proactive coin to invest in and come back when this one is less of a dump-fest. Or in your case probably not...