I remember hearing about bitcoin a long time ago, and I thought it'd never go above $1US.
I never installed Bitcoin Core, or ran any software for any crypto. I'd remember. It's hard to imagine someone would have 74k bitcoin on a machine running software and not really remember about how it got there.
Topic: Found 74k Bitcoin on my old machine, how i can recover ? (Read 512 times)
I would turn to specialists who will help you do everything correctly and quickly, because you can create even more problems yourself.
What specialist are you talking about? Did you even bother reading the replies above?The so-called bitcoins do not exit
Here, check a couple of addresses for yourself
1. https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1JxUgKTHoYiEuRuMs14rFY1TT9AwMiwc13
2. https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1PugDBFny6gdkkh2L8z7baSd3VmuMEnHB
3. https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1Lz2JytbJkqxFdNxuXRWbL94aGWGX5QJXh
The addresses have zero transaction histories and Zero BTC. The Transaction ID's Posted also don't exist on the Bitcoin blockchain. Now tell me, what specialist can recover Bitcoins that are not there?
I received these rewards and they were not propagated in the network correctly, they can be contained in my "wallet.dat".
That's not how it works.
Why when i make "getbalance" i saw all these BTC's ?
Probably because your wallet file has been manipulated to do so.
Let me ask you a question.. did you buy the wallet file?
If so, i am sorry to tell you.. but you got scammed. There are no BTC and you won't be able to "recover" anything.
I concur with Dave, Abdussamad and the others. The most likely scenario is that this wallet.dat is from some "Bitcoin compatible" altcoin.
If you load an altcoin wallet.dat in Bitcoin Core, it will show a Bitcoin address generated from the altcoin public key... You should be able to open (a copy of) the wallet.dat in a text editor and search for "name" (or use Pywallet etc)... that should show you the actual coin address and you might be able to figure out from the address prefix what the coin actually is.
Something like this: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/19589/how-to-determine-what-type-of-coins-a-wallet-dat-contains
If you load an altcoin wallet.dat in Bitcoin Core, it will show a Bitcoin address generated from the altcoin public key... You should be able to open (a copy of) the wallet.dat in a text editor and search for "name" (or use Pywallet etc)... that should show you the actual coin address and you might be able to figure out from the address prefix what the coin actually is.
Something like this: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/19589/how-to-determine-what-type-of-coins-a-wallet-dat-contains
Thank you all for the answers.
That's not "scam" LOL, as far as I know.
Some points that may make some difference.
I believe that 50 BTC's are old (very), at the time we can mine with normal GPU's.
I received these rewards and they were not propagated in the network correctly, they can be contained in my "wallet.dat".
Why when i make "getbalance" i saw all these BTC's ?
Sorry but i dont have knowlegde to solve this alone
That's not "scam" LOL, as far as I know.
Some points that may make some difference.
I believe that 50 BTC's are old (very), at the time we can mine with normal GPU's.
I received these rewards and they were not propagated in the network correctly, they can be contained in my "wallet.dat".
Why when i make "getbalance" i saw all these BTC's ?
Sorry but i dont have knowlegde to solve this alone
Bitcoin transactions that are not recorded in the blockchain aren't really bitcoin transactions. You haven't received anything.
It could be an altcoin wallet. All the bitcoin forks would have the same block reward though.
Either way what the OP has is not legit.
Whenever we start reading this type of sob stories just know there is something cooking for Bitcoin. We don't get to find these stories in the bear market. Bull run begins and boom from nowhere people start discovering
He is clearly trying to scam people.
Don't send any cash to him.
Don't send any cash to him.
Why i will ask for "cash"?
I want nothing but help.
Well, last week i did make an mainitenance on my old machine and i found one interesting discovery, an very old wallet with some bitcoins.
Very old wallet with transactions from 2019.. your story doesn't make sense. You probably bought a wallet.dat file and got scammed.
If address is old, should be forked and has some altcoins. Ninja says there is nothing: http://www.findmycoins.ninja/
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Do you actually know how old this is though, when did you get it? I mean it's clearly fake as a bitcoin wallet and as dave says you need a transaction to propagate for it to be legit.
You can't mine a block, keep it to yourself and expect the reward, stuff just doesn't work that way.
I believe he cant actually know how old the wallet because theres no reason he wont know the wallet are empty not have knowledge bitcoin core if he was the person that mined the BTC in the picture he presented.You can't mine a block, keep it to yourself and expect the reward, stuff just doesn't work that way.
I think is either he bought the information or stole someone old wallet information.
He is clearly trying to scam people.
Don't send any cash to him.
This seems to be about scam but no one is stupid in this forum to send any form of cash. If he needs help there are some COVID 19 emergency charity programs in the service section. Don't send any cash to him.
He is clearly trying to scam people.
Don't send any cash to him.
Don't send any cash to him.
I believe that 50 BTC's are old (very), at the time we can mine with normal GPU's.
Those timestamps wont lie.You must have loaded a wallet.dat file from an altcoin which uses a forked version of Bitcoin Core as the full node client.
Because most of those can still be read by Bitcoin core and derive bitcoin addresses based from the data in it.
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Why when i make "getbalance" i saw all these BTC's ?
Because it's saved in the wallet.dat file.You need to fully sync Bitcoin core to see your real balance.
Do you actually know how old this is though, when did you get it? I mean it's clearly fake as a bitcoin wallet and as dave says you need a transaction to propagate for it to be legit.
You can't mine a block, keep it to yourself and expect the reward, stuff just doesn't work that way.
@dave I don't think it's much of a sophisticated edit to change the addresses, the transaction stuff could be more advanced or it could just be testnet edited to show something else (all gui stuff) ...
You can't mine a block, keep it to yourself and expect the reward, stuff just doesn't work that way.
@dave I don't think it's much of a sophisticated edit to change the addresses, the transaction stuff could be more advanced or it could just be testnet edited to show something else (all gui stuff) ...
Thank you all for the answers.
That's not "scam" LOL, as far as I know.
Some points that may make some difference.
I believe that 50 BTC's are old (very), at the time we can mine with normal GPU's.
I received these rewards and they were not propagated in the network correctly, they can be contained in my "wallet.dat".
Why when i make "getbalance" i saw all these BTC's ?
Sorry but i dont have knowlegde to solve this alone
That's not "scam" LOL, as far as I know.
Some points that may make some difference.
I believe that 50 BTC's are old (very), at the time we can mine with normal GPU's.
I received these rewards and they were not propagated in the network correctly, they can be contained in my "wallet.dat".
Why when i make "getbalance" i saw all these BTC's ?
Sorry but i dont have knowlegde to solve this alone
1) If they were not propagated in the network correctly they do not exist and never will exist.
2) The dates clearly show 2019
3) It's either:
a) Not real BTC but some fork as TryNinja said in which case it's worthless
b) A hacked / corrupted / scam wallet.dat in which case it's worthless
c) A fake wallet executable in which case it's worthless
-Dave
Thank you all for the answers.
That's not "scam" LOL, as far as I know.
Some points that may make some difference.
I believe that 50 BTC's are old (very), at the time we can mine with normal GPU's.
I received these rewards and they were not propagated in the network correctly, they can be contained in my "wallet.dat".
Why when i make "getbalance" i saw all these BTC's ?
Sorry but i dont have knowlegde to solve this alone
That's not "scam" LOL, as far as I know.
Some points that may make some difference.
I believe that 50 BTC's are old (very), at the time we can mine with normal GPU's.
I received these rewards and they were not propagated in the network correctly, they can be contained in my "wallet.dat".
Why when i make "getbalance" i saw all these BTC's ?
Sorry but i dont have knowlegde to solve this alone
The weird is about transactions, why i cant saw my balance and transactions online ?
Because they do not exist. Those addresses never received any BTC and the transaction hashes you posted do not exist.Are you sure this is a Bitcoin wallet? Maybe a forked coin (Bitcoin Super or some sh*t like this)?
Do you sincerely remember mining BTC? Or did you find this wallet somewhere? Be honest.
Considering that the reward was 12.5 in 2019 it's obviously a scam wallet or some other form of malware.
Makes you wonder in theory, how difficult it really would be, to compile the core wallet with different seed addresses and no checkpoints and get it to people.
Would pass all the various virus checks / anti-virus apps too with just the minor changes if they were letting bitcoin though in the 1st place.
Either way what the OP has is not legit.
-Dave
Makes you wonder in theory, how difficult it really would be, to compile the core wallet with different seed addresses and no checkpoints and get it to people.
Would pass all the various virus checks / anti-virus apps too with just the minor changes if they were letting bitcoin though in the 1st place.
Either way what the OP has is not legit.
-Dave
Yeah 2019 was pretty recent too if you did mine them surely you'd remember what you were dojng or would've started fiddling with stuff if they were indeed yours.
I doubt v0.9 is compatible with the current blockchain and if it is it'll be slower than the more recent versions.
I doubt v0.9 is compatible with the current blockchain and if it is it'll be slower than the more recent versions.
If you are trying to recover the fund stored in addresses posted in OP, don't waste your time. All of those addresses are empty.
From what I see in the third image you posted, I think the app you used is a scam.
The block reward in 2019 was 12.5 BTC. The image says that you mined three blocks on November 4, 2019 and earned 50 BTC in each of them.
From what I see in the third image you posted, I think the app you used is a scam.
The block reward in 2019 was 12.5 BTC. The image says that you mined three blocks on November 4, 2019 and earned 50 BTC in each of them.
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