How my bitcoins were nailed down in my grandfather's garage. - page 4.

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Quote from: JasonClauch on July 25, 2020, 12:17:57 AM

Over time my computer became outdated and I disassembled it and sold the video card and other parts and left the hard drive in my closet. (more to the point)
I heard again about bitcoin in 2017 and immediately remembered my hard drive, which my grandfather had hammered into the wall of his garage as a tool holder.

Unfortunately for you and many other people who at first could not even imagine what value they actually have on their hard drives, fate has given you a really strong slap and left for sure a great feeling of regret for a lifetime. It's a real shame the hard drive from your closet ended up in the garage, but it is also a question of whether you would be able to save the data at all after so many years.

There is another very famous case of a person whose hard drive ended up in a dump and it contained thousands of BTC, or a case of a person who hid his private keys in fishing rods that ended up in a dump again. At least you know where your BTCs are, on the garage wall as tool holder which is currently valid between $300 000 and $400 000 Roll Eyes

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Very touching story and I feel an analogy here, so there's a lesson here for all of us: your HD shouldn't have been in your granddad's garage, just as this thread shouldn't have been in the Meta boards.

edit: there's a lesson for me here, too: always read the whole thread

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But "Meta" is unfortunately inappropriate and therefore please move (bottom left) this Thread to another subboard.

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You're not alone in this. There are many users with interesting stories about lost wallets

But "Meta" is unfortunately inappropriate and therefore please move (bottom left) this Thread to another subboard.

JasonClauch

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It's an idiotic story, but it's completely true...

I am a nasty cyber-punk who learned about bitcoin back in 2011 and got my first bitcoins at that time, I just mined them on my work computer, while doing my own business, which did not bother me much, by those standards, my computer was quite powerful.
I didn't have many bitcoins, only around 30-40, I don't remember exactly, at that time it was only a few dollars (February)
After that, my personal life spun around, I started doing offline work and forgot about all this. Over time my computer became outdated and I disassembled it and sold the video card and other parts and left the hard drive in my closet. (more to the point)

I heard again about bitcoin in 2017 and immediately remembered my hard drive, which my grandfather had hammered into the wall of his garage as a tool holder.

So my story has come to an end, and it hurts and makes me laugh to write it. So no comment.

Thanks,
Jason

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