About to kms

reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/wiki/hotlines

be grateful some people do not have enough water

There was a thread the other day about storing your wallet keys/ledger recovery phrase in a bank safety deposit box or similar . People thought it was a stupid idea

This is why it isn’t . Sorry user

Vlog about it get money from yuppies looking for crypto tips and bonus sob story and how you're inspired to recover

Your coins aren't lost. Look into forensic recovery services. They aren't cheap, but $10,000 to do a bit by bit recovery is a lot cheaper than losing 30BTC. Best of luck to you, OP and RIP Shadow.

Fucking hell OP

Sorry dude but that is such an epic story that you have to STAY ALIVE and tell your grandkids someday

Damn I'm sorry for you OP.
Don't kill yourself tho, remember we're all gonna make it. Suicide just leads to eternal damnation and that's shit.

houstonion here. city is still recovering from our flood.

sorry to hear about yours. good luck, buddy. someone in houston is rooting for you.

insurance only covers about 1/4 of the total damage in my house. currently talking to a lawyer but have no money to talk to him anymore.

where I live, this external drive is worth more than my house

I can't start with around 1 btc with literally nothing on me. I can live, or survive but I don't know where I go from here

life's gonna be hard

Jesus christ of this is not a larp.. thats absolutely insane... Go to reddit set up a wallet and ask for donations

HDD can be recovered bit by bit. Water doesn't change magnetic charge on the platter. You'll be able to recover it all, but it won't be cheap. Look up hard drive forensic recovery.

Do what ever research you can to recover it m8

You'll feel like a million bucks once you figure it out.

Go to a specialist. Your data can be restored despite the damage because the mechanisms involved don't change the magnetic orientation, which is how the data is encoded onto a physical disk. It's not cheap, but they can get your bits back.
>t. InfoSec

Remember separate hidden locations. Remember watertight fireproof storage. I feel awful for you user I would be SICK! But to everyone else please learn from this

Can you get a new interim wallet? Post your BTC wallet address, I'll send ya some sats.

Thats heartbreaking man, I lost my dog this past Fall and it was rough.

are you stupid. don't bring you harddisk to a repair shop, there are companies that fucking disasemble it and read the bits with laser.

considering you havent fuck the hard disk even more, there is still hope. It wont be cheap though.

This is why I store keystore files on multiple encrypted USB sticks, one being at my parent's place as a backup.

Is this a subtle begging thread?

this please get it looked at by experts.

sucks and i hope its not tru but why didnt you grab your hdd and puppy before you ran out? its not like your house flooded in 2 mins

Also why keep so much money on a single wallet without private keys engraved in metal?

>no waterproof safe with a laminated paper wallet in a ziploc bag
Better luck next time, OP.

Oh yeah you're right, if that's an HDD and not an SSD or another kind of flash drive the data should be easily recoverable by the right person.
One benefit of magnetic drives I suppose.

I think your techinicions are shit this Also you can recover from the paper if its not totally shredded and the ink just ran, im pretty sure your paper will have micro impressions

I don't think I'm doing it, but for some reason I'm already entertaining the thoughts. I guess this is where it all starts

I ACTUALLY saw it and was considering it but it was a busy week for me to have it done. and the banks here were closed for the holidays

thanks man. I only literally have about $10,000 in bittrex and binance and other exchangers. If I cash them out, + tax, I need some assurance that I'll be recovering those btc. I've talked with a lot of people here, they all seem to tell me that I should give up on trying to recover.

implying i will have grand kids if I stay broke throughout the rest of my life

I don't play that game.

thanks bud.

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You could possibly recover the data from the hardwallet. Just get professional help.

Nearly half a million in bitcoin and no backups and shit? Dude if i had half a million I’d make a ton of backups and hide them in relatives houses. I feel bad for you, but poor planning. You story sounds half fake anyway.

Damn, that's horrible. Lost my dog not too long ago so I know how it feels. I know it might feel like replacing him, but due to the state you're in I'd recommend getting another one as you'll likely benefit from the companionship. Don't give up. Try and get your BTC back but even if you can't, you made it once so you can do it again. I'm rooting for you, user!

10k can easily become 50k to 100k in a year. Invest smart.

10k in cryptos is more than over half even have here.

Seems like we need a better solution guys, this crypto business has a major flaw, coins arent safe online or in paper form. Can we somehow make a dna wallet so it litterlly yours and in you? Maybe a virus (harmless one) encrypted with the hash?

>only literally have about $10,000 in bittrex and binance and other exchangers

>only 10,000 to start again with?

wtf dude. i've got like $300

>they tell me I should give up trying to recover
These are basic techs with an A+ certificaton and probably don't know shit outside of using a paid program to do the work for them. There are professional services but they take time (weeks to months) and are not cheap, but unless you were flooded by magnets, there should be no issue with recovery. I've had to use them before when an employee decided he would smash his hard drive after stealing $127,000 from the business. He beat the shit out of it real good, but didn't physically destroy the platter, which we sent off and recovered the evidence from. This was 5 or so years ago and I think he is still in prison. So there's that.

How much for the drive? I'll buy it off you.

Same more than 10 whatvi have you be ok

just offer them 1 BTC if they are able to recover it. It's more than 10k and you dont need to withdraw your trading funds and pay taxes

>not keeping your money on the exchange

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I don't think OP understands the concept of bitcoin. There are no true cold storage. Anything can be recovered with the private key/

You got scamed this is what i would have done fix hdd get the keys permanently brake it and say it isn't recoverable get rekt kek

Seagate literally shilled me that their drive is water-repellent. Had it for 2 months and some rust is forming. Now I called customer service and they said they can replace the drive. cool! can you replace the btc too? "what's btc?"

I'm not techie but I'm researching what you guys are telling me. Then again, I only have $10k, my only and final money to spend on everything, so if I use it to attempt to recover wish me luck.

above

an external hard drive seemed the best idea at that time.

they shilled me to get the drive

nah man

sorry about your dog too man. really crushing my heart right now. not sure about begging on Veeky Forums. I never begged but I gave a couple of times.

then those people shouldn't have 20 kids each

It only gets better from here user. You can do it!! I believe in you, now please believe in yourself

Or just laminate your paper wallet and throw it in your own safe.

Nigga hard drives work by magnetizing a platter in a specific way that corresponds to the data you're saving on it. Water could've destroyed the electronic parts of the drive which prevents it from operating the platter head but the data on the platter itself is still fine because magnetic fields can only be affected by other magnetic fields or simply wear off with time.
Your wallet's fine you just need a real specialist to take that shit apart and read it.

Come on guys, take it easy. I've had those btc since 2014 so that's why I prefer to just put em in a single place. I'm also not a techie, most especially about hardware.

I'm really grateful for the suggestions about the recovery. I was hopeless but now I think I might just have something.

My problem now is that I'm seeing $10,000 to $30,000 service fee for that kind of recovery (googled) and even the most trusted ones don't offer even a good 50% chance of success, some don't even give out a percentage at all, they'll just try and if they can't do it, they'll take a quarter of the fee.

I'm in my neighbour's hosue eating hot ramen. $86 in cash, house not usable, no working computer, and talking to a lawyer that charges me $250 per consultation (5 minute talk) about my house and property.

tonight I'll be hungry

How strong is the encryption on a say a micro SD? Can I use the same passphrase for all of them?

>doesnt have 20 kids
get on my level user

>had those btc since 201

you amassed 1/2 a million dollars in 3 years and never learned how to keep it safe?

seagate.com/gb/en/services-software/recover/in-lab-recovery/

Damn OP, idk how you can hold 30 btc and not own a waterproof safe

I'm sorry for your loss

I just remembered, the last guy pried my drive open and wiped it off, then it turned on for 30 minutes and shut down permanently.

>trusting some random tech
Chances are by giving it to that guy, he fucked it up even more.
reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2n02lt/iama_data_recovery_engineer_i_get_files_from/

Please please please do your research user

pretty stupid of you not to secure your holdings
at least you have your life, which is more than some people can say after a devastating and sudden flood like that
consider it a life lesson

>I'm also not a techie, most especially about hardware.

You know what, nevermind. Fuck you, retard. You exploited technology to gain wealth, and then never actually learned how to protect or properly use said technology.

You deserve this, and more.

I asked him why he opened it, he said he needed to wipe off the water and rust inside.

"okay do your thing"

You can literally remember your 12 word key.

datarecovery.com/services/hard-drive-data-recovery/

>Most importantly, Datarecovery.com provides a no data, no charge policy. If our engineers aren’t able to recover your data successfully, we don’t assess a recovery fee (evaluation fees may still apply for expedited cases and for drives with fire or water damage).

Good luck user, these guys seem legit.

Storm Eleanor? Hope shit sorts itself out breh

Explain to me why you think your bitcoins are on your hard drive?

Where is your private key or seed?

>live in a shithole where a FLASH FLOOD can fuck your house up
you deserved it

this right here

I can fix your drive. If it's a HDD, it's as simple as cross-installing the platters into a new rig. If it's an SSD, it's gonna be harder because the controller and associated electronics will be fried, so I'll have to either replace the electronics (which will be ass if they're microscopic) or cross-solder the flash memory into a new rig. I've got some spare rigs and a micro solder so it shouldn't be too difficult, let me know if you're interested. Sorry about the dog, I can try to cross-transplant its brain into my retarded cat (fuck that little shit I've been trying to get rid of him for weeks), but I'm not a good surgeon.

Seriously, hit me up on either offer.

do you have fiat though? I need a place to eat and sleep tonight and rent a pc with internet. that would help me a lot.
I'm already hopeful with the suggestions provided.

And I'll do it for free. You don't need forensics goggly shit. In return, all I ask is you try out my new ether-based gambling service and give me a genuine review.

I just came here to say I wish you all the luck in the world man. Hang in there, you got this.

> I've had to use them before when an employee decided he would smash his hard drive after stealing $127,000 from the business.

Please user elaborate on this. I'm curious

>>FUCK!!!! MY COLD WALLET! (30 BTC in currently connected with my other laptop)

i think you misunderstand what a cold wallet is

I mean not hanging yourself lol
I mean get that sorted and live a nice life.

you had insurance right OP?

I've already contacted someone here to try and do it, I'm not in the US so.

I'll post again on Veeky Forums in a few days if I had no luck.

>Implying OP was retarded enough to tell them he had 500k in crypto in that hdd

Gl, let me know how it turns out (including if you recover your data): [email protected]

yeah I got it. thanks bud

like I said above, 1/4 of the house damage is covered. lawyer being greedy and insurance wont cough it up. more interested in recovering the btc

Genuinely sorry for your loss

That drive can be rescued 100%, did you try ontrack?

t b h if I had 30 BTC on the line I'd would spend the money to overnight the drive to one of those US based recovery services

Holy shit, I need that.

where you based at user? Aus?

no I haven't told them anything. I just told them there's a really important file inside I need to get.

saved. thanks bud.

I haven't. But I was just talking to someone I know here who will try to do it.

yep

>don’t keep ur crypto on the exchanges

Use that btc to start a bounty to kill the pajeets shilling this

reminder that XRP moves 4x the speed of the average flash flood

seriously tho don’t kys bro

I heard about the hectic storms up the coast, shits fucked bro.

Couple of good data recovery mobs in Aus though, just expensive af (from experience 6 years ago)

yeah it's pretty pretty pretty good for exactly the scenario that OP is finding himself in.

Where do you live OP?

This.
These drives are hermetically sealed. You should be able to take it to a recovery expert and they will most likely remove the platters and read them directly. I wouldn't fuck around with the amateurs anymore, they will do more damage to the platters.

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