I work in a computer repair shop. One of our interns just told me something interesting about a HDD he has in his possession...

Apparently he has 3 hard drives at home that once belonged to a vendor that was busted on Silk Road. I guess his Grandfather is good friends with the vendors father or something. Vendor is (or was) locked up so his father donated his computers. Not sure why LE didn't have them, but whatever...

This kid barely knows what Silk Road is, and has no clue what to do with the HDDs. He was going to format them and reuse them on his computer. I told him to bring them in and let me look first...

So, if there are abandoned BTC on the drives, what would I be looking for? A wallet file?

EDIT: I am not getting my hopes up yet. The story is from a guy who heard it from his grandfather who heard it from his friend. None of these people have any reason to lie and insert "Silk Road" into a story so I am confident that it they are connected in some way. But I find it much more likely that it was a buyer than a seller. I am just not that lucky to stumble onto one of the relatively few busted vendors...


Comments


[51 Points] samwhiskey:

Wallet.dat


[18 Points] ShulginsCat:

The wallet.dat file will have everything you need to transfer the btc to your own address. It might be in a hidden folder (or dotfile folder for linux). Electrum wallets have a different format but the same filename. Enjoy your ill-gotten gains!

I doubt we would be able to find any useful information about how he was caught or whatever, but if you find out the vendor's username / real-name please share here.


[17 Points] DrQuarters_:

I want to see how this turns out, and who the vendor was


[11 Points] Satoshi-:

Read this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0

For a tool to search and recover wallets from a hard drive.


[8 Points] concernedad420:

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[4 Points] TheTallRussian:

So you're asking us how you'd steal from a vendor who got busted.

Nice guy


[2 Points] bernardo44:

Probably so. Definitely share whatever interesting stuff you find though!


[2 Points] gwern:

Which vendor?


[2 Points] don_crackavelli:

This is a dope find, please update us OP.


[2 Points] MilitantCannabis:

take it if you can find it, put half in his jail/prison account.


[2 Points] Mattk50:

anyone sane encrypts their wallet file. So, probably not worth anything. But whatever.


[1 Points] pinkpanther227:

Have your friend try and identify and locate local wallet software (electrum, armory, bitcoin-qt) or a file named wallet.DAT (I think that's the name). If you can't find a wallet try searching for text files that contain credentials.


[1 Points] iHeartmxe:

If you find anything interesting please share. Keep us updated.


[1 Points] baddogg1231:

RemindMe! 1 day


[1 Points] medpreddit:

This is just like a picture of a safe. OP better deliver......


[1 Points] friendofstranger:

Dat wallet file... Any updates


[1 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

you're looking for a wallet.dat file. it'll be located in the User%Appdata%Roaming directory.


[0 Points] omnisentinel:

like finding a wallet with cash inside.. sure, it has their ID, but hey, MONEY!


[0 Points] None:

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[0 Points] R4ID:

ur searching for wallet.dat file


[0 Points] Dragon109255:

Did you find anything?