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by _maverick_ 3124 days ago
There is a free tool to do this on your own without trusting anyone else:

https://github.com/peterjkrey/bitcoin_recover

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Definitely helpfull as other tools. But this recovers the secret key only if you didn't add a password to your wallet. Also we provide a service, because not everybody knows the inner workings of Bitcoin. Luckily we have a lot of these tools for tech savvy people. We also pledge to send Bitcoins to the third party tools that we use while recovering!
I presume part of the advantage of a services they have a lot of compute power (or Asics?) to throw at the task.