That sucks man, but you gotta do what you gotta do. The fact that you had been investing in bitcoin and it was able to help out on a rainy day is a credit to your forethought.

Ok I'm confused....

This is finished I think? I meant to bid again but was on never ending Zoom meeting so forgot

Yes. 258th Bitcoin funeral I will have been to. Very sad. Zombie just wont stay dead though.

You win some, you lose some, no hard feelings on my end. Hope you have some more good stuff to sell WTF! I need a gilt Casascius.....Although not going to lie, a bit terrified about posting something like that across the Pacific.

Lot 1 : 0.0145BTC

Inventive scam. I mean on some level you have to know when you're buying a wallet.dat file worth millions of dollars for $800, you're the sucker at the table. I guess hope springs eternal.

Lot 1 : 0.0130BTC

I always make sure of that, at least I think I do. And the fact that only the Vanity address is shared is weird.

I copied some public addresses from my everyday wallet, and checked in the new wallet if it owned those same addresses, it came back false.

Before opening Bitcoin Core, I backed up my everyday wallet. I then deleted the copy of wallet.dat in the Bitcoin folder.
I then opened Bitcoin Core, it behaved as expected, it had a brand new looking wallet, with no bitcoin and no transaction history.
I then used importprivkey ############### "MyVanityNickname" in console. It took like 30 min to rescan.
I could not see any address in the address book, which I thought was weird, but as it had no bitcoin and no transactions, I thought maybe it might just not show up
So I shut down Bitcoin Core. I backed up this new Wallet.dat file, then I copied over my existing wallet.dat file to the Bitcoin folder. Computer says " Do you want to replace the existing wallet.dat" and I say yes.
I fire up Bitcoin Core. It is my old existing wallet as expected, with my bitcoin, and my transactions. To test that the import happened correctly, i send a tiny amount of bitcoin to the Vanity public address.
Transaction history now shows I sent a transaction to myself, and "MyVanityNickname" is in my address book. This I found very weird.
I shut down, backed up again, moved the new wallet.dat back into bitcoin folder (ie the empty one I imported priv key into), fire it up.
New wallet.dat shows the tiny balance I just sent it, but nothing else.
I power it down, swap wallet.dat files again, fire up my old wallet. It shows the tiny amount being sent to myself. To test I then select input coin control, to see if I can send tiny amount to my mobile wallet. ( ie see if my old wallet does actually have the private key to that address)
Bitcoin are sent to my mobile successfully.


Nope neither of those things I don't think. Definitely had not imported it before. The new wallet was generated because their was no wallet.dat in the bitcoin folder

I generated a vanity address using reputable open source software on my home PC, taking precautions like not being connected to the internet etc. Everything went well, so instead of risking my actual wallet.dat file, I opened bitcoin core with no wallet.dat, so it generated a new, empty one, with no bitcoin or transactions. I used the importprivkey command to import the private key of my vanity wallet, everything went well.

Then i closed bitcoin core, backed that new walled.dat file up, and fired bitcoin core back up with my everyday wallet.dat that has my bitcoin. I sent a small amount to my vanity address as a test, but bitcoin core showed I sent the bitcoin to myself, and when i had a look, I had the vanity address in this wallet.dat, as well as the empty wallet. I am unsure why this happened? Shouldn't importing a private key only be linked to the wallet.dat file it was imported into? How does one wallet.dat know what happened it a separate wallet.dat.

Does bitcoin core store the private keys somewhere other than wallet.dat, or when a new wallet.dat is created on the same computer, is it deterministically linked to previous wallet.dat's created on that computer?

In short, how did my existing wallet.dat get the private key I imported when running a different, brand new, never before used wallet.dat?

4.2 XMR

Thanks mate, super excited

I can't PM you with this account unfortunately, and still waiting for my old one to be returned.

OK, I must be misunderstanding how escrow works in this situation sorry.
I was assuming the escrow received the bitcoin, told the seller bitcoin was in account, then the seller sent the coin to the escrow, and escrow forwarded it on to the buyer. Does seller send directly to buyer, and once the tracking says signed for then you release the bitcoin?

ahhh, OK that makes sense, sucks for me, but that's life. I'll keep an eye out for anything else you post, hopefully have my old account back so I can bid more than once every 5 minutes!

Thanks for explaining, I appreciate it

I bid 1.07

True, and hard to argue if he does. For what it's worth before I bid I posted signed proof I am the owner of a 2013 account. But yeah, we are talking 49 seconds here, so although I really want it, I'm trying not to be too much of an ass about it, and will have no hard feelings whatever the outcome.

I know minerjones and OGNasty do Escrow from the USA, wondering which trusted members do it from Europe?

No, and I can't message OP due to this account being a newbie. Crossing my fingers!