FAQs

What are lost bitcoins?

During the early days of Bitcoin, early adopters were able to mine and purchase thousands of Bitcoins for less than $0.50 per coin.

However, not everyone was equally lucky. Many people who bought the bitcoins early either lost or forgot their wallet password. It is estimated that nearly 4 Million bitcoins are lost. You can learn more about the lost bitcoins here.

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Can you crack a password?

The short answer is YES!

Most people use weak and common passwords from English dictionary words. For example, substituting $ for s like pa$$word instead of password.

You can simply try guessing the password or use more advanced password cracking techniques, such as dictionary attacks and brute force.

There are billions of leaked passwords that can easily be downloaded and used for Dictionary Attacks

You can learn more about password cracking in the video section.

What is wallet.dat file?

The first and original Bitcoin Core wallet stores private key information in a file named wallet.dat following the so-called "bitkeys" format.

The wallet.dat file contains your private keys, public keys, scripts (which correspond to addresses), key metadata (e.g. labels), and the transactions related to your wallet. If you have an HD wallet, it also includes the HD seed and the derivation paths for each private key. You can learn more about Bitcoin Core Wallet here.

In short, the wallet.dat file contains all of the bitcoins that were purchased by the owner and then stored in their Bitcoin Core wallet.

Once you make any purchase from us, you will receive a wallet.dat file with the associated balance inside. Each wallet.dat can consist of several Bitcoin addresses.

What are the next steps after your purchase?

In order to access the wallet.dat file, you will need to download the main Bitcoin Core Wallet for your system. Bitcoin Core initial synchronization will take time and download a lot of data (more than 350GB). You should make sure that you have enough bandwidth and storage for the blockchain size.

Video instructions here.

How are bitcoins mined?

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Chances are you hear the phrase “bitcoin mining” and your mind begins to wander to the Western fantasy of pickaxes, dirt and striking it rich. As it turns out, that analogy isn’t too far off.

Bitcoin mining is performed by high-powered computers that solve complex computational math problems; these problems are so complex that they cannot be solved by hand and are complicated enough to tax even incredibly powerful computers.

You can learn more about Bitcoin mining here