An old lady bought dozens of bitcoins with her friend in 2015. The friend withdrew the money from the exchange to the Bitcoin PC wallet on the friend's computer and gave her a mnemonic phrase and a WIF private key.
At the end of 2017, I went to my friend's house to check the Bitcoin PC wallet. The coins were still there, but not long after that, the friend disappeared.
A few days ago, the old lady's daughter-in-law found me and wanted to recover the bitcoins. After calculation, the Bitcoin address corresponding to the private key had coins in the past, and there were transactions from 2012 to 2023. The coins were immediately transferred away as soon as they entered, which was suspected to be a trap. The mnemonic phrase itself had a verification error, and the Bitcoin PC wallet did not have a mnemonic phrase. Using computing power to calculate the various errors or disorder of the mnemonic phrase did not produce any results.
At this point, it can be basically concluded that she was deceived by her friend and was given irrelevant mnemonics and private keys at random. It should have been in the friend's computer all the time, but the key was that she didn't know the coin address yet. . .
The same mistake as Xu Bo, so the private key must be in your own hands. In the hands of others, it is equivalent to having no coins, because human nature cannot stand the test. . . . . . Except me.
