Still got plenty more.

Besides, remorse is the 5000btc wallet lost to a corrupted bitlocker partition, or close to that lost to pirate.

You don't need to sell it, just mortgage the crap out of it. Banks are lining up to give you 120% of the value.

Sent it off to 4 data recovery companies. Almost all datas intact, but the bitlocker metadata (including master key) are corrupt... 256 bit AES key

I wouldn't give up if I were you.

Obviously you can't brute force a 256 bit AES key. But you MIGHT be able to brute-force an algorithm to fix whatever corruption happened to the metadata... I'm not an expert but at the very least it seems plausible.

For 5000 bitcoins, I'd hire an expert and get a few Amazon GPU clusters going. If you're not into the idea of trying out of pocket, maybe you'd be willing to crowdfund to give it a shot? I'd be interested.

Did you save your recovery key/recovery password somewhere when you enabled Bitlock?

Recovery key doesn't help. The master key is encrypted with your recovery key and bootup usb. Thats the key used to decrypt the data, and its not stored anywhere except the drive itself.


The first few entire sectors of the drive are unreadable.

Heh, one more order of magnitude in price and it will be worth getting your drive under a magnetic force microscope. Maybe you should just donate it to an MIT (or Northwestern University) materials science lab and  tell them they can keep half of the profits.

(I did my PhD at Northwestern - they are a top materials science research university, let me know if you need a connection)

Ok, so what you're really saying is that you cannot recover your bitcoins.

This is playing out like a condensed version of that oft posted bubble pic.