Topic: ever find an old wallet? - page 2. (Read 1982 times)
I have an old multibit wallet from 2012 which is on a laptop that i cant access cause i dont have a charger to charge it .... its not much but i cant throw it away knowing there is bitcoin on that thing.....
Congratulations dude I am very happy for your happy ending. I haven't had any old wallets of mine to recover but I have heard a lot of horror stories of people throwing away their obsolete HDD drives from desktop and laptop machines.
thanks.
I dont even know if I still have the laptop I ran that Ubuntu wallet on. might be in the shed somewhere but I recycled a few laptops and towers a couple years back. but I do pull drives from anything I recycle and toss them in the Stuff box. got a couple RLL and MFM 5.25s in that box.
Ive been smiling all day. my wife too.
Congratulations dude I am very happy for your happy ending. I haven't had any old wallets of mine to recover but I have heard a lot of horror stories of people throwing away their obsolete HDD drives from desktop and laptop machines. There was one guy in the UK who threw away his old HDD with a lot of mined Bitcoins on it to a landfill site and later on when the price went to the Moon he was trying to dig it out. The amount was huge I think more than 1 million at the time and his story was all over the news. I think it was just after the price hit $1200 in 2013.
so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu"
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
I wish i had something like that. though i do have few wallets of different alt coins. i need to sync and check how much it sums to. all collected in 2013. fingers crossed since i dont remember anything now.
and as for btcs i found 0.018 :p lol.
so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu"
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
That is one fun story
lucky you 
so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu"
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
That's pretty cool to be honest, I'm quite paranoid & overly protective of my bitcoin's so I know how many there are in every source of cold storage & local storage method.
I imagine that as a very early adopter somebody could forget about lots of coins though in an address or two when the price was low.
You should be pretty happy though
Enjoy the money you forgot you had. yeah thats why I looked back over my transaction list, to see what the 1st transaction was. it was from Slushs pool mined on an HD4850
Woow it's really cool, seems like cloud mining was profitable,you are so lucky,first you are the early adopter and just found 5 bitcoin on your old wallet, such a great story.
Anyway the only thing that i just wondering is how much bitcoin that faucet site give to the peoples? it must be high rewards, isn't it?
no, slush is a pool. it still exists.
when I 1st did bitcoin Slushs pool had clearer instructions on setting up GPUs and the bitcoin wallet than anywhere else. so Slush was the 1st place I mined.
the HD4850 I mined with was low powered at that point but since I had it I used it to prove bitcoin worked. once I sold the coin, converted it to USD and transferred it to my bank account, I then grabbed some modern cards (modern at that point was the HD6xxx series).
used mtgox and dwolla to convert to fiat. luckily I saw the red flags at mtgox and split.
And I am totally new to the world of bitcoin, my bitcoin wallet is about a few months older, I have created it on this year 2016 and the first transaction to it was from faucetbox.
yeah thats why I looked back over my transaction list, to see what the 1st transaction was. it was from Slushs pool mined on an HD4850
you are so lucky,first you are the early adopter and just found 5 bitcoin on your old wallet, such a great story.
Anyway the only thing that i just wondering is how much bitcoin that faucet site give to the peoples? it must be high rewards, isn't it?
And I am totally new to the world of bitcoin, my bitcoin wallet is about a few months older, I have created it on this year 2016 and the first transaction to it was from faucetbox.
yeah thats why I looked back over my transaction list, to see what the 1st transaction was. it was from Slushs pool mined on an HD4850
How I wish I heard about bitcoin in 2011! I only started in 2014 and was using Coinbase. Only recently installed the BitcoinCore but it is really resource consuming so I decided not to continue.
Hope more people can find their old wallets so that those coins will not be lost forever!
Well it is unfortunate that you can't run Bitcoin Core in your computer, but I recommend that you at least download Electrum because it is infinite times better than holding your coins in Coinbase or any exchange whatsoever. So everyone should learn how to use Electrum at least, but if you want the real deal you gotta have the blockchain in your hard drive, at least pruned mode if your hard drive is small. Hope more people can find their old wallets so that those coins will not be lost forever!
Personally I have never found a wallet lying around because I always make sure that I know where the current wallet is, and I always pack the wallets together when doing backups and put them in different places but I always remember where the wallets are, so no chance for me to find some forgotten wallets.
my backup plan is more organized now. FreeNAS rig in the basement with ZFS Z1 (like RAID 5). but back then it was "copy anything important everywhere you can" type of thing.
now after this as i find old wallets Im putting them in one place to check them out. most are copies of the main wallet but namecoin and litecoin wallets are there too.
Very cool that you found that old wallet. Some of the stories about wallets from 2011-2013 are crazy, thousands lost/thousands found. I have not been in long enough to have an "old wallet" 
How I wish I heard about bitcoin in 2011! I only started in 2014 and was using Coinbase. Only recently installed the BitcoinCore but it is really resource consuming so I decided not to continue.
Hope more people can find their old wallets so that those coins will not be lost forever!
Hope more people can find their old wallets so that those coins will not be lost forever!
And I am totally new to the world of bitcoin, my bitcoin wallet is about a few months older, I have created it on this year 2016 and the first transaction to it was from faucetbox.
so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu"
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
Well 5.0 is a lot of BTC and a lot of people are dreaming to even own 1.0 BTC so congratulations on this one.
Personally I have never found a wallet lying around because I always make sure that I know where the current wallet is, and I always pack the wallets together when doing backups and put them in different places but I always remember where the wallets are, so no chance for me to find some forgotten wallets.
[...]even if i have used them a long time ago the addresses are imported in blockchain.info as watch only to inform me about their balances
thats a good idea for sure.
Im still running the same wallet from 2011 on my daily driver PC. made some others on various offline machines just to move them out of the main wallet around when wallets were not encrypted.
now most btc are in paper wallets but slowly moving some to the trenzor.
so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu"
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah..
rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else.
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing
wow, you da real hodler man!
that has to be a nice feeling when you find some coins that you had no idea existed in the first place. especially if they are worth a lot when you find them.
i don't think i will ever experience this feeling because i keep all my wallets under close observation and even if i have used them a long time ago the addresses are imported in blockchain.info as watch only to inform me about their balances
I was able to find a wallet I used to use from late 2011 up to mid 2012 and have some funds in it but unfortunately I didn't made a back up or just simply copying everything saved in a notepad since everything used to be saved on my browser in the past and since I installed new windows over the one I used to had (I change windows twice yearly since I play around a lot and always mess something), so as result I don't have the chain words that would help me recover needed information, in order for me to log in (a bit of regret although not that much of a big deal since it's less than a BTCitcoin).
I did found a wallet which I thought I had used and was empty but it didn't had that much BTC as yours did, not even close to that but it was like finding money in your pocket and it felt great.
I wiped a disk partition once accidentally, which contained some altcoin wallets but never throw away any wallets, what if tomorrow a new coin like clams comes along with a blockchain based giveaway?
Most people would already delete/lost his/her wallet file, i heard a guys throw away harddisk with thousands bitcoin inside it 
I wiped a disk partition once accidentally, which contained some altcoin wallets but never throw away any wallets, what if tomorrow a new coin like clams comes along with a blockchain based giveaway?
its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion
price around aug 2011 was around $10.
hmm even if i bought some random currency online for fifty bucks. im definitely sure I'd remember it lol. Although i remember finding a really small amount amount of bitcoins in a wallet that i stored on my old USB drive. have no clue when i got those.price around aug 2011 was around $10.
I probably just figured Id transfer it out again to my main wallet, just never got around to it.
back then when it was new to me I was testing things to see how it worked. this wallet originally was on an old laptop I ran ubuntu on.
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