<p>This is a common scam.</p>

<p>If you don't have the private key to begin with, you have no bitcoin whatsoever, and never had any.</p>

<p>Stop talking to whomever is claiming this, and accept your loss.</p>

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Pieter Wuille
<p>I had bitcoin placed into my account and now am being told it is non spendable and in order to get the private key and make it spendable, we have to pay a fee.</p>

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Is there such thing as paying a "tax" or "task" on non-spendable bitcoin in a blockchain wallet in order to get the private key?
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# Is there such thing as paying a "tax" or "task" on non-spendable bitcoin in a blockchain wallet in order to get the private key?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-04-11)

I had bitcoin placed into my account and now am being told it is non spendable and in order to get the private key and make it spendable, we have to pay a fee.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2020-04-11. Score: 3

This is a common scam.

If you don't have the private key to begin with, you have no bitcoin whatsoever, and never had any.

Stop talking to whomever is claiming this, and accept your loss.


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