Online rumor that "a wallet containing 4,000 BTC was cracked and recovered" is suspected to be fiction [Online rumor that "a wallet containing 4,000 BTC was cracked and recovered" is suspected is fictional] Financial reports, recently, community chat records show that a wallet containing 4,000 BTC was cracked and recovered. This news may be fictional.

After financial verification, the wallet address starting with 18eY9 in the chat record contained 4,000 Bitcoins, and 4,000 Bitcoins were transferred to the address 18eY9 on June 28, 2011. Since then, BTC at this address cannot be transferred. Currently ranked 410th on the Bitcoin rich list.

Financial investigation discovered that the wallet.dat file corresponding to the address 18eY9 was for sale on the allprivatekeys website. In April 2020, a user posted on the popular Bitcoin forum bitcointalk as a reminder not to purchase the "walllet.dat" file. with the lost password, including the address 18eY9 The corresponding walllet.dat file. Additionally, there are a total of 176 wallet files for sale on the site, with a total value of 44,791 Bitcoin.$BTC