Answering frequently asked questions for those who are not in the know.
How to import a wallet?
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You must be logged in to see this link. and import the wallet, wait for synchronization. This is a native Bitcoin wallet client, released in 2009. The very first desktop Bitcoin wallet, it downloads (uploads) all blockchain transactions since 2009 and synchronizes them in the wallet. As soon as the transactions are loaded into the block of the wallet you imported, the balance will be displayed. If the wallets are very old (2009-2011), synchronization will be performed sequentially, if new, then sometimes full synchronization can take a week, since all transactions (blocks) are downloaded since 2009, and this is about 600 gigabytes.
All wallets are password protected. The balance will be visible, but to transfer money to another wallet, you will need an unknown user password. Wallets are intended exclusively for brute-force password selection.
The very first crypto wallet appeared in 2009 - it was Bitcoin. The database of this physical wallet was located in the folder of the full client program Bitcoin Core (available only on the computer). At that time, there were no seed phrases or phone wallets.
To transfer funds between addresses in the Bitcoin network for BTC, you had to open your computer, run Bitcoin Core and enter a password to complete the transaction.
Back then, people did not believe in cryptocurrency, Bitcoin was worth cents (less than a dollar), no one took cryptocurrency seriously, and no one remembered passwords. When Bitcoin first appeared in 2009, it was not taken seriously, and people simply forgot and lost their passwords, not taking it seriously.
As of today, I have over 3,000 wallets ( for a total of 398,124 BTC ) with unknown passwords, collected over 9 years (these are wallets lost by people, the passwords to which they do not remember). To view the balance and transaction history of the wallet, you can download Bitcoin Core, import the wallet into the program and check the balance. You will not be able to use the money, withdraw it or transfer it to another wallet until you enter the user password.
You can create your own password database and try to open them by brute-force. If your password database contains a suitable password for the wallet, then you are lucky - the brute force will give you the right one. This is a roulette, and the password is very difficult to guess, all the most famous passwords have already been hacked. To do this, you will need a very large database of unique passwords. Many wallets have already been hacked using simple passwords.
You can rent a server and brute-force wallets there, passwords can be collected from various crypto databases, for example.
We are all trying to hack them, it all depends on luck and the password database. It is unknown what password the user could have set, maybe he wrote a poem or a tongue twister. It's a matter of luck.
By the way, the most expensive pizza in the world was bought by programmer Laszlo Hantz on May 22, 2010 for 10,000 bitcoins (BTC). At that time, this amount was worth only about $41.
