How am I supposed to get over the anxiety and depression involved in all this?

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Quote from: BullCreek on August 06, 2017, 11:56:45 AM

I was an early adopter. I never used the Silkroad or anything like that. I just liked collecting odd things. I bought 50 btc from a friend back in 2011 and just kept them in a private wallet since.
Well that Hard drive is now dead. I've been sporadically trying for years to get it to work. I'm at a total loss here. The market is at an all time high, and Im not sure another bear market is coming back.
I never had money to invest in this in the first place. But what little I did have I would throw into MTGOX (lol) and lost that shit too. After the GOX incident I took a couple years off of cryptos. I still had my private wallet I thought, until I went to retrieve it in 2015 and my hard drive was compromised somehow. I have 5 mill RDD/ 5 mill DOGE and 50 btc on that drive.
Now it's at an all time high again and I am still broke. What am I doing wrong?

I feel sorry for you. That such amount was nothing back then, but now it’s worth more than you can ever imagine. I will say the best thing for you to do now is to try and recover the drive. Maybe you should some BTC if you want to (any amount you can afford). But don’t ever forget to find a way of retrieving the drive.

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Quote from: IIOII on August 06, 2017, 12:06:11 PM

1) I'm not sure if I believe your story

2) Hire a data recovery professional to try to retrieve your wallet data

3) Try to get a job (if you're currently jobless)

4) It's never too late to buy BTC

There is a big risk involved in sending your harddrive to someone else to (hopefully) get the data recovered, specially when you are dealing with bitcoins.

I know a case of some guy that lost BTC, and then he sent his HD to some service that claimed they would be able to unlock it, and they stole their BTC.

So I hope OP had an encrypted wallet, and make sure you are dealing with serious professionals.

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Quote from: BullCreek on August 06, 2017, 11:56:45 AM

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What am I doing wrong?

your problem is that you think the only way to make profit from bitcoin is to buy it when it was $1 or so and sell it when it is $3000+
and because of that mindset you have missed a lot of rise so far.
take a look at the charts for the past couple of months or past year. the price is always on the rise and it will continue to be on the rise.

on the start of 2017 price was barely $1000 and now it is more than 3x higher! that means if you, instead of sulking, invested in it then you could have made 3x profit.

and it is not late now either! next year you will look at $3300 and say i wish i bought back then, i can't afford paying $7860 to buy 1 whole bitcoin now.

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Quote from: IIOII on August 06, 2017, 12:06:11 PM

1) I'm not sure if I believe your story

2) Hire a data recovery professional to try to retrieve your wallet data

3) Try to get a job (if you're currently jobless)

4) It's never too late to buy BTC

Yes, it is never too late to purchase bitcoins but the value he had in the past was much bigger.
50 BTC for now is a big amount and you can even purchase a good car with it. OP, you can try to hire professionals to retrieve your lost data.

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Important lesson is to always keep multiple copies or backup of your wallet. It is also best to have a hardware wallet such as ledger or similar to it.

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Quote from: BullCreek on August 06, 2017, 11:56:45 AM

I was an early adopter. I never used the Silkroad or anything like that. I just liked collecting odd things. I bought 50 btc from a friend back in 2011 and just kept them in a private wallet since.
Well that Hard drive is now dead. I've been sporadically trying for years to get it to work. I'm at a total loss here. The market is at an all time high, and Im not sure another bear market is coming back.
I never had money to invest in this in the first place. But what little I did have I would throw into MTGOX (lol) and lost that shit too. After the GOX incident I took a couple years off of cryptos. I still had my private wallet I thought, until I went to retrieve it in 2015 and my hard drive was compromised somehow. I have 5 mill RDD/ 5 mill DOGE and 50 btc on that drive.
Now it's at an all time high again and I am still broke. What am I doing wrong?

That is life brother, That is the reason why i always do have a backup files for a certain system especially bitcoin but more important is that i do make sure that i always get a profit for every single investment that i have

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I agree with what others have posted here. The hard drive failure is likely mechanical and the data stored on the platter is probably still readable. Good luck.

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It's really sad to read what happened to your coins, It's already 2017, i think there are lot of new ways to recover your coins.
Try recovering it not by yourself buy by professionals, that's really worth recovering, but you need to put a lot of effort here and learn your lesson to keep your things backup-ed always, best of luck to you mate, hoping for the best.

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If the contents of the drive are worth $160,000 you should probably be investing in trying to recover it with professionals before investing in more crypto

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Oh damn, yet another stark reminder for backing up

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Quote from: IIOII on August 06, 2017, 12:06:11 PM

1) I'm not sure if I believe your story

2) Hire a data recovery professional to try to retrieve your wallet data

3) Try to get a job (if you're currently jobless)

4) It's never too late to buy BTC

I'm not sure if I believe it either. Half the stuff on this forum is total crap--but man, would that suck if it were true.

But yeah, I would have no doubt some smart computer people could restore his drive. All is not lost.

Failing that, there are many good antidepressants on the market, and anxiolytics that you could choose from, as well as therapists. And it is true: It's not too late to buy bitcoin!

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Quote from: BullCreek on August 06, 2017, 11:56:45 AM

I was an early adopter. I never used the Silkroad or anything like that. I just liked collecting odd things. I bought 50 btc from a friend back in 2011 and just kept them in a private wallet since.
Well that Hard drive is now dead. I've been sporadically trying for years to get it to work. I'm at a total loss here. The market is at an all time high, and Im not sure another bear market is coming back.
I never had money to invest in this in the first place. But what little I did have I would throw into MTGOX (lol) and lost that shit too. After the GOX incident I took a couple years off of cryptos. I still had my private wallet I thought, until I went to retrieve it in 2015 and my hard drive was compromised somehow. I have 5 mill RDD/ 5 mill DOGE and 50 btc on that drive.
Now it's at an all time high again and I am still broke. What am I doing wrong?

Just find an it expert that can help you regarding your problem. It is good to have another options dont lose hope. Dont overthink it doesnt help you but rather it only makes you feel that way so be careful next time and dont depressed too much.

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It reminds me of a story from the guy who threw it out his hardware wallet containing 7500 bitcoins. Well if i were you i would find a professional technician to recover the hard wallet yeah i might spend much for this but it doesn't matter, it's all about to get my 50 bitcoins or 140k dollars back. In 2011 Bitcoin's price was really cheap, that's why people were not too worried about their bitcoins and what would happen in the future, let this be a lesson to the rest of us, it's very important to write down a backup of your wallet, especially the hardware wallet.

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the only problem is professional data recovery from a dead drive might cost more than a few dollars. it's a serious and delicate business. that's still by far the best option. get some quotes from trusted companies and go from there.

if there's any chance of getting it back then you have to take it. very few people can buy that amount any more.

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Quote from: BullCreek on August 06, 2017, 11:56:45 AM

I was an early adopter. I never used the Silkroad or anything like that. I just liked collecting odd things. I bought 50 btc from a friend back in 2011 and just kept them in a private wallet since.
Well that Hard drive is now dead. I've been sporadically trying for years to get it to work. I'm at a total loss here. The market is at an all time high, and Im not sure another bear market is coming back.
I never had money to invest in this in the first place. But what little I did have I would throw into MTGOX (lol) and lost that shit too. After the GOX incident I took a couple years off of cryptos. I still had my private wallet I thought, until I went to retrieve it in 2015 and my hard drive was compromised somehow. I have 5 mill RDD/ 5 mill DOGE and 50 btc on that drive.
Now it's at an all time high again and I am still broke. What am I doing wrong?

You're not paranoid enough.

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Quote from: BullCreek on August 06, 2017, 11:56:45 AM

I was an early adopter. I never used the Silkroad or anything like that. I just liked collecting odd things. I bought 50 btc from a friend back in 2011 and just kept them in a private wallet since.
Well that Hard drive is now dead. I've been sporadically trying for years to get it to work. I'm at a total loss here. The market is at an all time high, and Im not sure another bear market is coming back.
I never had money to invest in this in the first place. But what little I did have I would throw into MTGOX (lol) and lost that shit too. After the GOX incident I took a couple years off of cryptos. I still had my private wallet I thought, until I went to retrieve it in 2015 and my hard drive was compromised somehow. I have 5 mill RDD/ 5 mill DOGE and 50 btc on that drive.
Now it's at an all time high again and I am still broke. What am I doing wrong?

If you are practical with your hands then do what i did when my hard drive stopped working 10 ish years ago.

In a clean room with no dust.

1. Buy a cheap second-hand working hard drive and must be the same model as your dead hard drive.
2. Remove both hard drive casing.
3. Remove the disc platters from your second-hand hard drive.
4. Very carefully remove the disc platters from your dead hard drive.
5. Very carefully put the disc platters into the second-hand hard drive.
6. Make sure it is done properly.
7. Put the casing back together.
8. Connect the hard drive to your computer and pray to god that there is no damage to your disc platters. (most hard drive failures are mechanical)
9. Retrieve all data (wallet.dat first) you want to keep and copy them to another brand new hard drive. (I am assuming you have one already)
10. Start Bitcoin and check the wallet is ok.
11. Make multiples copies on at least 2 different storage device. Keep 1 and store the other with someone you can trust i.e your parent. This is just in case your house has the misfortune of being burnt down.

Let me know if that works. Wink

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If this account/story is true there are places totally beyond normal recovery services. Try reading around Steve Gibson's website about some commercial tools. Failing that, there are consummate pros that can disassemble and examine the drive platter with amazing results. No PM's please. I am just trying to help give you a starting point.

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Oh god that's a small fortune right there, what price did you buy the bitcoin for? I don't think you ever will get over that decision, but you can try recovering the hard drive. There are companies out there that can probably recover all of that data, but I am not sure of the prices.

It's no point blaming him for keeping all that bitcoin in an unsafe place and not getting backups of it. At the time bitcoin would probably just be a couple of dollars and no one would be bothered to do that much for 100$.

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Quote from: BullCreek on August 06, 2017, 11:56:45 AM

I was an early adopter. I never used the Silkroad or anything like that. I just liked collecting odd things. I bought 50 btc from a friend back in 2011 and just kept them in a private wallet since.
Well that Hard drive is now dead. I've been sporadically trying for years to get it to work. I'm at a total loss here. The market is at an all time high, and Im not sure another bear market is coming back.
I never had money to invest in this in the first place. But what little I did have I would throw into MTGOX (lol) and lost that shit too. After the GOX incident I took a couple years off of cryptos. I still had my private wallet I thought, until I went to retrieve it in 2015 and my hard drive was compromised somehow. I have 5 mill RDD/ 5 mill DOGE and 50 btc on that drive.
Now it's at an all time high again and I am still broke. What am I doing wrong?

What you did wrong is not take care of the hard drive in 2015 when the Bitcoin price was still quite high.
Even 50 Bitcoin in 2015 was worth like $25,000.
You should have taken better care of that hard drive.
Now, there are MANY services out there to help recover your data.
I recommend https://walletrecoveryservices.com/ they are extremely professional and will help you as this is a large amount.
All the best.

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Quote from: BullCreek on August 06, 2017, 11:56:45 AM

I was an early adopter. I never used the Silkroad or anything like that. I just liked collecting odd things. I bought 50 btc from a friend back in 2011 and just kept them in a private wallet since.
Well that Hard drive is now dead. I've been sporadically trying for years to get it to work. I'm at a total loss here. The market is at an all time high, and Im not sure another bear market is coming back.
I never had money to invest in this in the first place. But what little I did have I would throw into MTGOX (lol) and lost that shit too. After the GOX incident I took a couple years off of cryptos. I still had my private wallet I thought, until I went to retrieve it in 2015 and my hard drive was compromised somehow. I have 5 mill RDD/ 5 mill DOGE and 50 btc on that drive.
Now it's at an all time high again and I am still broke. What am I doing wrong?

This incident have already happened with many users here including me, bitcoin has sometimes given me big losses but also some good profits. There are many such ups and downs in bitcoin, but we need to overcome them and try to move ahead. If you have some loss, leave it and try to cover it with double profit. Thinking this will surely give you more profit.

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