Now I always feel like I have to write something every day, otherwise I would waste the once-a-day push opportunity.

Since posting (I restored a 1350 Trezor wallet) a month ago, it’s been a very busy month.

Many customers contacted me through various social channels to inquire about various asset recovery matters. At the same time, I also received many recovery orders and was busy recovering various wallets every day.

Many people have asked about Bitcoin Core wallet recovery, and they all ask about public wallets. Although I wrote an article about public wallets before, I have encountered too many questions about public wallets, so this article is still about public wallets.

No matter who you are, you must understand that no one is the protagonist of this society. Without the halo of the protagonist, the pie in the sky will not fall on you, and no one will give you a Bitcoin wallet for free.

"My friend gave me this wallet to pay back the money I lent him"

"My boyfriend had a lot of Bitcoin. I broke up with him after 3 years, and he gave me this wallet as compensation."

“My brother passed away and left this wallet. Can I get these bitcoins back?”

"I have this address and a clue to the password. Can you help me recover the password?"

I still encountered many of the above statements, but all of them gave the addresses of public wallets.

Here I give you a method to determine whether it is a public wallet. You can visit the search and purchase website:

I bought 264 wallet.dat wallets with 59,000 BTC for less than $5,000. How about it? Are you happy?

But these wallets are not necessarily real, they may be real or fake, because it is impossible to distinguish the real from the fake. I can tell that some are fake, but I can't tell the real from the fake for most. And the website has listed all the addresses, you can know whether it is a public wallet address by checking the address.

I have all these wallets. If I want to crack them, I will crack them myself. I don’t crack them because they are really unreliable. No one will spend a lot of computing power to recover the wallet password that they don’t know whether it is real or fake; even if they recover it, it is very likely that they will not be able to transfer the coins.

Therefore, there is no need for me to accept other people’s public wallets, and please don’t come to me for these wallets anymore.

The most surprising thing is:

One of the most popular wallets with 150 BTC came from a website. And the website clearly stated in the wallet that the wallet was fake. But many people still came to me with the same wallet, no less than 50 times from last year to this year. . .

Below are the addresses of 150 BTC wallets. If you find any of these addresses, you should know they are fake.

wallet_150,366.dat

12aVP18cd5XsbcGQy8u6eywQ6UuA6Q319s : 0.00013863

1HLoD9E4SDFFPDiYfNYnkBLQ85Y51J3Zb1 : 50.01516912

1J2wEFH8jJELsfXsEeE15fkuP9ikzPMDMQ : 0.00001000

1FvzCLoTPGANNjWoUo6jUGuAG3wg1w4YjR : 50.00531755

12c6DSiU4Rq3P4ZxziKxzrL5LmMBrzjrJX : 50.34645826

total amount : 150.36709356

There is also this wallet with 131 BTC, which is also widely circulated and listed together.

wallet_131,63.dat

1EZeYuLR2ugK8sk4XeDVcyNGBT7sGPDrNb : 31.63000580

1EdrQwSXQYFKZKim3fX7jKTiR5gmjsjT64 : 50.00011127

1DFo9TYjyKT7Rwa1Nx7G3STMRHBFUC2hUB : 50.00001127

total amount : 131.63012834

They all said it was given by a friend, but if it was a real wallet, who would give it to you? I remembered something I encountered before:

In November 2024, a friend asked me to crack the password of the Bitcoin Core wallet. When asked for the address, it was a public wallet. The key point is that this friend spent 3.6 million to buy 20 high-end 4090 machines with 8 cards to crack this wallet. It took more than half a year, the electricity bill was about 250,000, and it took a lot of effort.

The machine can be sold or used for other purposes, so there will be no loss. However, the electricity bill will be lost and the energy will be wasted. Therefore, before cracking the wallet, first check whether it is a public wallet. Most public wallets are fake, and even if the password is cracked, it may not be possible to transfer the coins.

This friend told me that it was given to him by a friend he trusted very much, and when he heard the truth, he found it hard to believe that it was like this. . .

So don’t believe that such a good thing will happen to you. Who is the fool?