Hey vamosrafa.  Had a TON of luck.  Recovered all of my Bitcoin plus BCH and BSV.  I was on bitcointalk and all over the internet looking for help last summer and finally got everything back.  Check out https://multibitwalletrecoveryservice.com .

Thoughts:

you can get help at https://multibitwalletrecoveryservice.com/ .  I received all of my coins that were stuck and also got a bunch of the forks like Bitcoin Cash and SV.

For anyone having trouble (you ok bigbbri and user7895?) with their Multibit BTC check out https://multibitwalletrecoveryservice.com/

I've been stuck on this problem for a long time and you can see my post back in 2018 here where I asked for help.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1782552.msg43620117#msg43620117

Got it all recovered.  And got some BCH, BSV and Bitcoin Gold with the sweep service.  Not going to sell any of them, but it's good to have the coins just in case  .

(Just tagging you in case you still have trouble BCNBULL)

Yes!

Fixed fixed fixed!

Coming back over a YEAR later to post!

Recovered my Bitcoin from the Multibit wallet.

https://multibitwalletrecoveryservice.com/

What people do not understand is for those who had the earliest versions of the wallet it never showed the 12 wallet words during setup.  No way to show the 12 words *after* either.  This is just 1 of the major problems with Multibit and maybe why the developers and then Keepkey abandoned it. Other problems for example were files getting corrupted, , the program not connecting, the AES backups not working and also the program having transactions stuck in "Unconfirmed" because it miscalculated the fees.  I had funds stuck in unconfirmed for about a year until everything was recovered.

Got my BTC back!

There is no assumption.

"Illicit uses" and "money laundering" are old reasons given by the fiat banking system to institute tight controls on users' funds.  The banks themselves are involved in such activities, this has been heavily documented in the public-- along with fines-- so such buzzwords are meaningless and are used to stoke fear and give an excuse for the need to freeze people's accounts.

If a company can close a wallet-- for WHATEVER reason that "They" deem necessary-- then they can close a wallet.  Period.

If my wallet is in my pocket and someone can stick their hand in at any time, for any reason, take it out, and decide what parameters I have to meet in order to get "my" money back?

Then it is not   my   wallet   at   all.

I have been in crypto since bitcoin was under $200.  I will never allow newbies to not understand what options are out there and

I will never allow newbies to be misled about services, wallets, coins, information and such things.  I had a lot of people help me in my beginnings and I am continuing that assistance to give information to those now joining the world of cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency Users! ===> DO NOT USE ***ANY*** WALLET that you do not hold the KEYS/PASSPHRASE to.

"Not your keys?  Not your wallet."

ALSO!

Do NOT keep your money on EXCHANGES.  They go down.  They get hacked.  They run with the funds like Cobinhood just did.

No one is going to sit day and night and try to hack into your little Ledger Nano, Trezor or Coinomi wallet.  It is not a big target.  Let's say you have $200,000 in there?  It's STILL not a big target.  Hundreds of people are constantly, though, trying to hack into Coinbase, Kucoin and whatever other top exchanges are out there.  Now, how do you work with exchanges?  Simple...

Send the funds there for your transactions.  Complete them.  Then, remove your funds to a personal software wallet like Coinomi or Exodus or a hardware wallet like Bitlox, Ledger or Trezor.  That's it.  You Do Not Trust Any Company, Entity, or Group to hold your coins for you.

You have been warned!

By a young old-timer

Stay safe out there!

I don't care if it is in

Espanol

Francias

Dutsche

Polski

Korean

or

Hindi...

DO NOT DONATE BTC or ETH to ANY addresses asking for funds.  These accounts and the messages they post are SCAMS.  They are NOT authorized NYC personnel.

---------

IGNORE ALL REQUESTS AND POSTS TO "DONATE"...

there is nothing to donate to.  These new accounts asking for donations to xxxxx Bitcoin address are spams, scams and fakes!

Bitcoin talk rules even talk about not posting crypto addresses and begging/fund raising in the forums.

Do NOT donate.  Do NOT send funds.  These accounts asking are NOT authorized NYC accounts.

I can make an account called YoBitSupport, YoBitWallet, YoBit Help Team, etc etc.  These are FAKE ACCOUNTS

IGNORE ALL REQUESTS AND POSTS TO "DONATE"...

there is nothing to donate to.  These new accounts asking for donations to xxxxx Bitcoin address are spams, scams and fakes!

Bitcoin talk rules even talk about not posting crypto addresses and begging/fund raising in the forums.

Do NOT donate.  Do NOT send funds.  These accounts asking are NOT authorized NYC accounts.

I can make an account called YoBitSupport, YoBitWallet, YoBit Help Team, etc etc.  These are FAKE ACCOUNTS

I use the Coinomi wallet

(best one out there-- available for Android and iOS, you control your keys and the wallet does not require KYC-- just like a hardware Ledger, Bitlox or Trezor does not-- and the wallet company, Coinomi, cannot freeze or lock out access to your coins like Freewallet and many other crypto "wallets" out there.  Remember, if someone can lock you out of your wallet then it is not your wallet. Enjin's cell phone wallet is a good candidate also.)

however to find your .dat file use Windows search function and make sure "hidden" and "system" files are included and search for

"wallet.dat"

and it should turn up.

EXCELLENT NEWS

EXCELLENT NEWS

EXCELLENT NEWS

E X C E L L E N T  N E W S! ! ! ! !

FINALLY FINALLY someone else who gets it.

(You are already enlightened!)

Exchanges do NOT mean coin growth.

How many thousands of products, knick-knacks and widgets are on Amazon.com?  That does not mean people are buying them.  They're just "available" to buy.  Same with a book in a bookstore.  One book sells 1 copy a year while another has people lining up out the door to get it.

It is not about WHERE something is sold.  It is about creating something that people will go crazy TO buy.

The thing with cryptocurrency is that people don't understand the business aspect.  Everyone who yells "we have to get on ______ exchange!" and "we just got ON _____ exchange, whopee!"  doesn't understand that when people really WANT the coin?

They will join ANY exchange that has it to get it.

(That's a newbie account just asking random questions to get his post numbers up. Sometimes bots also. Be sure to read the thread messages carefully, then you'll be able to notice, if they don't ask something specific about the coin then they are just wasting space .)

(Like the post that's just 3 back from this one, haha.)

>>> Rule #1 In Cryptocurrency <<<

is that you NEVER keep your funds on an exchange or  use it as a "wallet" or holding place.

It is a dis-service to spread such information.  New crypto users need to know and old crypto users ALREADY know.

This is NOT banking.  People are used to "banking."

(Because banks have marketed effectively saying "let us hold your money for you!  don't do it yourself, we can do it better!")

This is entirely different.  This is the world of cryptocurrency.

If you do not have the private keys (or recovery phrase) to your OWN personal wallet

THE FUNDS ARE NOT YOUR OWN.

If the exchange gets hacked, shut down, confiscated, infected with malware or a virus, theft from an inside job, theft from an outside job, theft from regulators or government shutdown, raided or any other kind of thing

your coins are GONE.

Example - with TradeSatoshi this past week they-- for their reasons-- arbitrarily exchanged ETH tokes for NewYorkCoin, effectively erasing EVERYONE's millions and millions of coins, while those who had their coins on other exchanges and in Coinomi and other wallets were SAFE.

NEVER.  EVER.  EVER. E V E R *leave* your coins on exchange.

NEVER.

Remember This Post.

I will never, ever, ever let someone lose thousands if not millions of dollars because they didn't know that you are never supposed to keep money on exchanges.  A few years ago 10,000 BTC was nothing and famously bought two cheese pizzas.  Today it's over

$63,000,000.00 USD

This is f____g serious people.

Remember remember remember remember this people!  Do NOT KEEP funds ON EXCHANGES!  They go down.  Get hacked.  Coins get delisted.  They can mark your account or transactions as "suspicious" and demand information from you-- and then STILL decide not to give you your funds back.  Just like a bank and the regular money system.  ANYTHING can happen.  Crypto is here to erase that kind of nonsense.

"The safest way to store any cryptocurrency is in a wallet you alone control and can define the security and backups of."

If you don't have the private keys to a wallet

the funds are NOT your own funds

they belong to the exchange.

A few things:

1) I have Triton GUI wallet version 2.9 that I downloaded months ago (it stopped working/mining and I came here to find out what's going on).  The form mentions wallet version 2.0 Helium and CLI 2.0 .  I'm confused. Do I use "Export tracking key" in the 2.9 wallet?  How do we proceed with this?

2) Google is not good to mix with crypto.  They spy on, log and track everything.

3) The Google form forces signing in to a Google account.  Many of us do not use or have Google accounts.

4) Survey Monkey let's you create forms for free, unlimited surveys 10 questions each, here is the website https://www.surveymonkey.com/pricing
"How much does SurveyMonkey cost?
The Basic plan is FREE."

5) Please put the Swap info on the ANN page and all channels ASAP.    It's really important to let everyone know everywhere they look.  I've been on the other side of missed swaps and it's not fun and is usually a community blow-up for the next few months after with everyone who's missed out and the fallout from the whole process.

Where are the differences and descriptions of these desktop wallets?

Simple wallet vs swing wallet vs arizen???

I have tons of currencies and have never heard of a "swing" wallet.  Need to explain what these are.  Put it in the ANN and on the site's main page.

Edit:

Ultimate??

Zelcore?

What the heck?

This week I searched all my computers and found a Franc QT wallet file in a frantic search to save these coins from evaporating.  (I created a few online wallets but FORTUNATELY did not send any funds there.  The online Franc wallet site has been dead for weeks/months.)  Installed it and it's up and running now.  Can send it to you if needed.  You can check my history and comments (to see that I'm not a scammer or newbie to mining-- have been in this for 5+ years) and of course scan the file.  I haven't altered or modified it.

Hi khandeskhans!  I just listed nodes to use.  Add them and hopefully you can get up and sync'd up again.

Here is the list from NovaExchange

https://novaexchange.com/addnodes/FRN/

addnode=157.161.128.59:12834
addnode=173.249.60.242:12834
addnode=178.128.204.141:12834
addnode=188.165.200.106:12834
addnode=193.248.44.34:12834
addnode=213.169.33.11:12834
addnode=37.59.47.131:12834
addnode=46.105.99.166:12834
addnode=81.84.61.95:12834
addnode=95.222.46.126:12834

Alright,

I currently have a QT wallet syncing.  Initially there was just 1 connection.  I added these nodes that I found on Cryptopia

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/CoinInfo

and now have a total of 8 connections to the network.

addnode=81.84.61.95:12834
addnode=213.169.33.11:12834
addnode=178.128.204.141:12834
addnode=193.248.44.34:12834
addnode=90.35.252.42:12834
addnode=65.255.190.80:12834
addnode=157.161.128.59:12834
addnode=173.249.60.242:12834

The command I used to add them was to go to the console and input


addnode 81.84.61.95:12834 add


for each one.

These sites are offline/unresponsive/not updated and there is no more online wallet access, or ability to download the desktop wallet, and as people mentioned above the network and wallets aren't working.  1) Can't move the coins because of the blockchain being down and 2) there's no where to move them TO.

What can we do guys.