Marcelo R. Bianchi

Performing crypto recovery work for almost 10 years in the most popular and pioneering Bitcoin community in Spanish:

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@psbhf Hace cuanto tiempo sos fit?

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

The reward has been increased to 0.5 BTC (~$40,000 USD).

In 2013, someone created an Electrum wallet and set a password on their computer:

https://t.co/aPQNfrHCmG

They used the password daily for approximately two months before moving on to other activities and abandoning the project.

Six months later, they tried to access the system again but could no longer remember the exact password.

What makes this case unusual is that the password had been used repeatedly for two months. During the first month, they copied it from a piece of paper. After discarding the paper, they continued using the password from memory for another month.

They believe they still remember several key characteristics of the password:

- It contained three "X"s.
- There were two words placed between the Xs.
- The prefix was either !x or !z.
- The suffix was either !@#$% or (12345, depending on whether Shift was being held.
- The two words they remember are "ngn" and "ycm".
- They strongly believe that both words had the same length.

Example: !zXngnXycmX@#$%

For anyone who wants to test password candidates manually, an offline page is available here:

https://t.co/mT8WByHUvj

For those who prefer brute-force or dictionary attacks using Hashcat, the wallet hash is available here:

https://t.co/BefEr7JrFw

I have been recovering cryptocurrency wallets for nearly 10 years within one of the most popular and pioneering Spanish-language Bitcoin communities.

The first open call in 2018 regarding a Litecoin wallet:
https://t.co/IzICdDQ9Gg (not telegram)
The second open call in this year:
https://t.co/yjJYmNE1ES

Feel free to explore the group to verify my track record or ask other members about me.

I also created a Telegram group to answer questions and exchange ideas or contributions regarding password attempts:
https://t.co/tgQAoc5xLg
More data provided by the original owner is there (images, pdfs, past candidates, etc) and he will be replying every question too.

DISCLAIMER: Unlike previous cases, I do not possess the encrypted drive, and the Bitcoin address is hypothetical—the result of an analysis.

In the event of a successful recovery, the exchange must take place in person, and the password must not be published or shared anywhere.

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

16.5 BTC RECOVERED !
Thanks everyone for trusting on me and participating in
https://t.co/OYrB8qMdyr

Years ago, I was working on a crypto recovery project on a PC. Among the files, I found Ariel's wallet, who had apparently tried to recover his funds. I searched high and low for him, but he blocked me everywhere! Finally, I called his work and managed to get in touch. After getting his consent, I started working. I tried on my own, but it was quite difficult, so I put out an open call for everyone to try, but I had only posted it on Facebook, where everyone knows me. A year passed, and I decided to repost it, but this time I also posted it on Reddit and X. I even invested money to boost the posts (which, by the way, got me blocked from using ads...). In less than 5 days, someone from the community (who wasn't even in the Telegram group we created) succeeded. I'm truly grateful to everyone. I hope to bring you more challenges soon, follow me!

Ah! the password was "pera5durasnopera5lus"

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@wagmixyz https://t.co/g0Wou2C0Jl

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@pablowasserman No sé si será verdad pero hace meses leí que en China explotó la industria del reciclaje gracias a la IA

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@pablowasserman Binance acepta lectura de QRs para pagar

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@ZAlejandrooJF Hola! Este caso ya fue resuelto.
Este está activo:
Detalles dentro del post y telegram

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

Recompensa de 0.5 BTC (~31k USD) para quien descubra la contraseña

En 2013 alguien creó una billetera de Bitcoin, la cifró y le cargó fondos. Luego quizo usar esos fondos pero había olvidado la contraseña (ni siquiera recordaba haberla cifrado)

En ese entonces, solicitó ayuda y puso algunas pistas en un excel (ver imagen)
En la actualidad, la persona cree que la contraseña podria contener la palabra "wallet" o "billetera", pero podría ser cualquier cosa

Más detalles abajo 👇

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@guardiamuyalta No me gusta la música del gym, cuando sos nuevo esta ok pero después pudre

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@monsemarinph Es porque hay algo mas alla de lo que se ve a simple vista

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@bourbonni Rappi Turbo creo que es mas rapido, el tema es que vas restando cosas a tu vida que te hacen estar en movimiento

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@memervalito a veces es al reves

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

.@pastebin , with his best service killed the link, check this one:
https://t.co/jz0Od68BtV

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@pianophase https://t.co/jz0Od68BtV

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

Binance banea a Huobi

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

Rappi Turbo los mató

[infobae @infobae]

CERRARON 41.000 KIOSCOS DESDE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 Y EN EL SECTOR VEN UNA CRISIS SIMILAR A LA DE 2001

En un escenario de consumo retraído, pérdida de participación de mercado y aumento de costos, cerraron 41.000 kioscos tradicionales desde diciembre de 2023. Los comerciantes advierten que atraviesan una crisis comparable con la de 2001, aunque aseguran que esta vez el deterioro fue “más de golpe”.

Así lo manifestó Ernesto Acuña, vicepresidente de la Unión de Kiosqueros de la República Argentina (UKRA), en diálogo con Infobae. Detalló que la cantidad de negocios pasó de 100.000 hace dos años y medio a 59.000 en la actualidad. En promedio, bajan la persiana unos 50 comercios por día.

Infobae 🔗https://t.co/zrPvvTnlVq

[Jonathan Goodman 🇨🇦 @itscoachgoodman]

$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack.

My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet.

This part's nerdy, but here's what happened:

Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases.

This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases.

I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today.

"No way this affects me." I thought.

I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online.

Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew.

From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied.

18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD.

Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right.

I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes.

None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability.

I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything.

A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen.

I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@Boooquitapasion @laderechadiario Confirmo

[Marcelo R. Bianchi @marcebit]

@maxifirtman Muy raro realmente, qué habrá pasado?