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Quote from: LucidLynx on September 13, 2021, 04:31:07 PM

Today I woke up to this: 2.49 BTC sitting in the balance field. Man, I knew Bitcoin wasn't worth 20$ anymore! Let me tell you, this made my day, probably, my week or even this entire year!

Is there anything I need to do now that I'm holding a pretty big amount of Bitcoin? I've read that hardware wallets are the safest, should I buy one? Is there anything I need to know?

You are extremely lucky. You should have purchased few lottery tickets as well on the same day when you had discovered this balance in your bitcoin wallet. The amount you have found in your bitcoin wallet, is more than my mortgage amount. I want to write a similar true story about my dogecoin locker, but I am not able to find where I have kept around 40k dogecoins.

Hardware wallets wouldn't be required as you are using a bitcoin core wallet. But ensure that you always keep enough space in your hard drive for the blockchain to sync.

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Wow, it's the opposite of "bitcoin pizza" story. Good for you! Get yourself a cold wallet and buy some more if you can.

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Quote from: DeathAngel on September 14, 2021, 03:50:04 PM

Congrats OP & good for you, I’m happy you were able to recover some bitcoin. You should look to HODL at least 50% of that for future halving cycles. Don’t sell all of it this year.

He has got lucky that he wakes up to having that much bitcoin in his Wallet that have suddenly changed his financial status so he could wait for another 1-2 years to gain evermore because those were eventually lost coins but now he has them back so why not hold them for some more time instead of selling at these dips.Just a friendly advice.

I agree, the wise action to do after encountering such is to plan on how to multiply that amount of BTC. Although it won’t hurt to splurge and enjoy it for a little, it is important not to let thyself get carried away and be reckless in spending.

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What a nice story to read and I can only imagine how I would react if i woke up to fine 2.49 BTC on my computer.

For things to know make sure you have a Hard wallet to store the computers offline.

if i woke up one day with more than 2 bitcoin ? i will hurt myself to check if i am still dreaming lol.

OP is now become more interested again in bitcoin from the long time of inactivity , now that

Quote from: btcinmylife on September 15, 2021, 04:34:39 AM

You are very lucky, you have realized the things in my dreams.

all of our dreams lol, hope i will have the same dream as how OP got His Grin

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lucky that the first result showed was bitcoin because the word wallet.dat are too common and it can also mean for another wallet not just a bitcoin wallet but by the way is all the btc came from the faucet and on what year did you stop
? many people do claim in the faucets but they are not lucky as you , they forget their passwords and emails that they use back then .

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I often hear stories like this, when people look at the current bitcoin price of course anything he has ever done with bitcoin will be remembered, you are lucky to find more than $120k with a little work, this is a valuable lesson that assets that are currently worthless we have to take care.

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You are very lucky, you have realized the things in my dreams.

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Quote from: DeathAngel on September 14, 2021, 03:50:04 PM

Congrats OP & good for you, I’m happy you were able to recover some bitcoin. You should look to HODL at least 50% of that for future halving cycles. Don’t sell all of it this year.

He has got lucky that he wakes up to having that much bitcoin in his Wallet that have suddenly changed his financial status so he could wait for another 1-2 years to gain evermore because those were eventually lost coins but now he has them back so why not hold them for some more time instead of selling at these dips.Just a friendly advice.

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Congratulations, lucky! it is like waking up to be rich Grin

. Better save BTCBTC to my hard drive too. Tongue

If you are still interested in cryptocurrencies I would suggest to invest in some promising ICO's and you should also become a trader, but need to learn and study trading world first, that is if you are still interested. Well good luck! Wink

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Quote from: LucidLynx on September 13, 2021, 04:31:07 PM

Hello everyone, I recently did a cleanup on my external hard drive and I found a wallet.dat file.

At first I didn't have any idea of what this was, so I went ahead and deleted the file and continued my cleanup. I was still pretty intrigued by the filename, "wallet" so I looked up the exact name of the file: 'wallet.dat'. The first search result was this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet. I read that it's basically a file containing all of the important information related to a Bitcoin wallet. I also read that this file is normally located in the Bitcoin Core wallet directory, so I went ahead and installed the latest version of Bitcoin Core and looked in my trash bin folder, and sure enough, the wallet.dat file was in there. I had to wait 2 days or so for it to sync to the blockchain. Unfortuantely, I knew did not mine any BTC back then, I could only remember visiting a faucet a few times.

Today I woke up to this: 2.49 BTC sitting in the balance field. Man, I knew Bitcoin wasn't worth 20$ anymore! Let me tell you, this made my day, probably, my week or even this entire year!

Is there anything I need to do now that I'm holding a pretty big amount of Bitcoin? I've read that hardware wallets are the safest, should I buy one? Is there anything I need to know?

congratulation mate for your bitcoin recovery that is a really good digging as you have already forgot about that funds for long?
and accidentally finding the amount for good is indeed a lucky day for you.

Quote from: zanezane on September 14, 2021, 09:38:01 PM

You're lucky that you're still able to open the wallet and recover the bitcoin's that you have, I wish I had that kind of amount but no I don't and I hope that you're able to make a good use of those bitcoins because 2 bitcoins can easily turn your life around.

actually he had no idea at all not until ge go through the files , and he has no idea at first about that wallet if you will check his whole post.

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Quote from: LucidLynx on September 13, 2021, 04:31:07 PM

Hello everyone, I recently did a cleanup on my external hard drive and I found a wallet.dat file.

At first I didn't have any idea of what this was, so I went ahead and deleted the file and continued my cleanup. I was still pretty intrigued by the filename, "wallet" so I looked up the exact name of the file: 'wallet.dat'. The first search result was this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet. I read that it's basically a file containing all of the important information related to a Bitcoin wallet. I also read that this file is normally located in the Bitcoin Core wallet directory, so I went ahead and installed the latest version of Bitcoin Core and looked in my trash bin folder, and sure enough, the wallet.dat file was in there. I had to wait 2 days or so for it to sync to the blockchain. Unfortuantely, I knew did not mine any BTC back then, I could only remember visiting a faucet a few times.

Today I woke up to this: 2.49 BTC sitting in the balance field. Man, I knew Bitcoin wasn't worth 20$ anymore! Let me tell you, this made my day, probably, my week or even this entire year!

Is there anything I need to do now that I'm holding a pretty big amount of Bitcoin? I've read that hardware wallets are the safest, should I buy one? Is there anything I need to know?

I would suggest if are a trader and can predict wait for it to go 50 and withdraw it later but for me, as an amateur trader it's risky, from my point of view it already hit 50$ USD it might be just playing on 45k to 49k USD but who knows there might be a rich guy out there playing with bitcoin again.

The other suggestion is to withdraw it now because you already got the return of investment and you can later invest it in bitcoin again if it goes down like 30k USD.

After reading my suggestion go study trading and bitcoin learn, so you can fully decide what to do which is the best thing to do for your situation

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You're lucky that you're still able to open the wallet and recover the bitcoin's that you have, I wish I had that kind of amount but no I don't and I hope that you're able to make a good use of those bitcoins because 2 bitcoins can easily turn your life around.

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Quote from: LucidLynx on September 13, 2021, 04:31:07 PM

Hello everyone, I recently did a cleanup on my external hard drive and I found a wallet.dat file.

At first I didn't have any idea of what this was, so I went ahead and deleted the file and continued my cleanup. I was still pretty intrigued by the filename, "wallet" so I looked up the exact name of the file: 'wallet.dat'. The first search result was this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet. I read that it's basically a file containing all of the important information related to a Bitcoin wallet. I also read that this file is normally located in the Bitcoin Core wallet directory, so I went ahead and installed the latest version of Bitcoin Core and looked in my trash bin folder, and sure enough, the wallet.dat file was in there. I had to wait 2 days or so for it to sync to the blockchain. Unfortuantely, I knew did not mine any BTC back then, I could only remember visiting a faucet a few times.

Today I woke up to this: 2.49 BTC sitting in the balance field. Man, I knew Bitcoin wasn't worth 20$ anymore! Let me tell you, this made my day, probably, my week or even this entire year!

Is there anything I need to do now that I'm holding a pretty big amount of Bitcoin? I've read that hardware wallets are the safest, should I buy one? Is there anything I need to know?

That's nice to know that you are back into bitcoin. Lucky you didn't permanently delete those files, or else it would have been such a trouble to recover those deleted files (or worse, you would have never know what was in that wallet!). Now the first thing to do is to move the coins to a more secure wallet. Like you said, hardware wallets are the best. If you are planning on holding it for long term, then cold wallets are the best. So go ahead, buy on those hardware wallets. Its not very expensive. And maybe you would like to convert a little portion of your bitcoin into some other altcoins for better gains (risks are involved).

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Congrats OP & good for you, I’m happy you were able to recover some bitcoin. You should look to HODL at least 50% of that for future halving cycles. Don’t sell all of it this year.

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Is this really a real story?
please provide some screenshots so we can know about your recovering wallet.dat.
It will be very lucky if you open a past wallet and find 2.49 Bitcoins. you will have a lot of money if you sell it now or wait for ATH to form again.

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Quote from: LucidLynx on September 13, 2021, 04:31:07 PM

Today I woke up to this: 2.49 BTC sitting in the balance field. Man, I knew Bitcoin wasn't worth 20$ anymore! Let me tell you, this made my day, probably, my week or even this entire year!

Is there anything I need to do now that I'm holding a pretty big amount of Bitcoin? I've read that hardware wallets are the safest, should I buy one? Is there anything I need to know?

What a lucky find this was for you!!!! Now that you have BTC, yes you do need to think about securing it and you've got 2 options either use your BTC to earn interest on it which comes at the risk of you leaving your coins on an exchange or get a hardware wallet and keep them there (much safer) but you don't earn anything. The call is yours but for sure do your research before deciding..

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Damn, that's amazing. I wish I could wake up with 2.49 BTC as well Grin

Unfortunately I didn't know about bitcoin back then.
It's good that you did not permanently deleted the wallet.dat file and were able to recover the bitcoins successfully.
As others have already mentioned the best thing to do would be to transfer those bitcoins to a hardware wallet but make sure you buy it from the official platforms only.
Check the website multiple times before placing an order for the hardware wallet and do reset the keys upon using your new hardware wallet.
Also, keep a backup of the keys by noting it down on a paper or something and store in a secure place.
Good luck with those precious bitcoins and use them wisely.

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Damn, you must be a computer nerd and mined back in the day or something huh? Lucky mofo! That would certainly make more than my day lol. That would certainly make my year and then some. If you do move it to a hardware wallet I would not suggest Ledger like others have here. Trezor and ColdCards are considered by most to be the two best hardware wallets out there. I have a Trezor T and love it.

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Quote from: LucidLynx on September 13, 2021, 04:31:07 PM

Today I woke up to this: 2.49 BTC sitting in the balance field. Man, I knew Bitcoin wasn't worth 20$ anymore! Let me tell you, this made my day, probably, my week or even this entire year!

Welcome back after 10 years, it is really rare to see such old profiles activated after such a long time. Congratulations also on finding the hidden treasure, and that unlike some people you did look at what is on the HDD before you format it or throw it in the trash - it pays to be precise and thorough in life.

In your place, I would consider buying a hardware wallet or in case you have an old computer to make an airgapped wallet, which is a bit more complicated, but even safer than a hardware wallet.

Quote from: Kakmakr on September 14, 2021, 01:15:04 AM

If you are saying that you received those bitcoins through faucet activity, then you must have been in Bitcoin back in 2010 to 2014 or somewhere around then, with the Gavin Andressen faucet. Roll Eyes

Probably, but not exclusively in that period - because between 2015 and 2017 I managed to collect a significant amount through faucets and thus earned my first BTC - and during 2015 in just one hour with a good faucet rotator it could be collected in a very easy way and more than 100 000 satoshis. The GA faucet gave 5 BTC per claim, I just don’t know how long it lasted - so OP was certainly not one of those lucky ones to get BTC that way.

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So basically you were an early Bitcoin user,but you don't know what a wallet.dat file is?This is weird.
It must have been crazy to earn 2.5 BTC just by using Bitcoin faucets back in 2010-2011.
You didn't tell the story about how did you get interested in Bitcoin 10 years ago.
Congratulations on your discovery.This is like winning the lottery,but be careful with how are you spending those BTC.
If I remember this correctly,the saying was "Easy come,easy go."
Money that are earned very easy usually get spent pretty easily.

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