I had my initial doubts, but a wallet recovery service helped us recover a long lost wallet from 2013. The BTC in it was worth about $50~ back then, now worth almost $5000!

I've been active here since 2013, started one of the first Bitcoin startups in the Philippines in 2014, and Bitcoin has been my life since then. Naturally, I told all my friends about it, encouraged them to buy some, or gave some of them some free coins (it wasn't worth that much, 0.05 was $10 on the average in 2015 for example).One of my closest buddies of almost 30 years was one of those friends. We always bet on boxing and UFC fights for fun, and everytime I lost, I paid him him in BTC. He won a total of about $50-ish in BTC from me from 2014-2015 and kept it in a blockchain dot info wallet. At the time, it was really one of the only few decent choices for noobs.Long story short, he lost his password and only had this 17-word password recovery seed from the old version of the blockchain wallet. The seed didn't work. I thought he made a mistake because it's either 12 or 24 words for a proper seed phrase. He never heard the end of it from us and all our friends as we watched Bitcoin rise and watched his "lost" funds go higher and higher in value. It was like having an indestructible glass safe without a key. He already wrote it off and charged it to experience. I honestly thought it was gone forever.Then on December 18th, 2020, I was tweeting about this exact thing on a random thread when KeychainX responded with "We can try to help you! If your friend remember any hints." I was skeptical at first, but after a private message exchange and doing some verification, I figured it was worth a shot.Fast forward to today, after giving several clues and 80 hours of work on their end, I got the message that they finally cracked it! Unbelievable. Just got off the phone with my friend now and he is absolutley pumped, because the BTC is now worth about $5,000~!I was told by the KeychainX guys that they will be publishing a blog post about the whole thing soon, so I am looking forward to seeing the process of how they recovered the wallet.At these BTC prices, I do hope more people are able to recover their funds from lost wallets. Be careful with scammers though! There are many of them out there. Make sure you can verify the recovery service you are using before giving them any vital information.To the motherfuckin' moon! ┗(°0°)┛ via /r/Bitcoin https://bit.ly/2XNXcdA