Needing advice on recovering bitcoin

Just took the dive on making a reddit account for this sub thus the fresh account. I am a long time lurker thats been participating in the dark net markets since SR, but never participated in posting on this subreddit only watching. Maybe you guys can help me that have more knowledge on the subject.

A few years back around the time the evolution marketplace scammed, and when the price of bitcoin was something like 120-220 USD I made a transaction that I had sent to my electrum wallet inside tails. I copied and pasted my address, verified it was correct, and proceeded with the transaction. I then booted tails back up and opened electrum to find the address that I had sent the BTC to was no longer to be found. I then contacted the company I purchased the coin through to make sure it was sent, and it was.

So here is what I've found out since then:

I am able to literally watch my coin at the address that previously existed in my wallet, adding insult to injury. I have tried generating new addresses countless times to cycle through the 100 pre-generated addresses electrum posseses in each wallet to find the address that went missing. I have tried going through the backups of my wallet that I posses currently; however I am not so sure they are dated before the transactions took place, but the dates on my backups seem right. I also remember having to manually upgrade my electrum wallet some time back which was a long and leangthy process, but I can't remember if this took place before or after the transaction. To my knowledge I have never encrypted my wallet, so that should not have an affect on finding the data again. I have also tried numerous times to download pywallet to dump the data of my backups, but that is a little beyond my knowledge of how to do.

Thanks for any information I can get on the subject, I am sorry for the leangthy post but am trying to provide as much information as I possibly can. This has just previously been a thorn in my side, and I cut my losses when it happend, but now that my coin has multiplied ten fold I find it worth it to reach out to the more knowledgable minds here. Thanks again.


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