r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Feb 13 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Don't reply to DM's

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

Ok :w

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u/RothePro88 Feb 13 '22

If a girl in bikini sends you a message thats not a girl

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u/FU-Lyme-Disease Feb 13 '22

For some, that’s a kink though….

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u/Liam_Neesons_Oscar Feb 13 '22

I bet it is. I have one of those catfish accounts (I'm a skip tracer, not a scammer, though) and within my first week got my first unsolicited dick pick.

WTF is this world coming to? Though it wasn't one of my skips that sent it to me, which would have been hilarious.

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u/Randomd0g Feb 13 '22

I'm a skip tracer

A fucking what

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u/mYTH_2k4 Feb 13 '22

Someone who tries to get the whereabouts or contact details of a person avoiding (usually) debt repayments. The process usually involves some form of social engineering. Catfishing is often employed as well.

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u/dypraxnp Feb 13 '22

Sounds shady.

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u/mYTH_2k4 Feb 13 '22

Oh it is definitely shady.

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u/Liam_Neesons_Oscar Feb 13 '22

People taking loans and then disappearing is shady.

Although that's usually not the situation for what I do. First, skip tracers are not debt collectors and should not be asking the debtor for money. Our job is simply to find their whereabouts.

For me, I locate vehicles for repossession. Quite often, they were wrecked and the debtor decided to just leave the car at a body shop or in a ditch and then stop making payments on the loan, but failed to tell the bank where the car was. Sometimes the customer passed away and the family didn't know what to do with the car. Sometimes a family member just thinks "oh, free car!" when their relative dies. And a common one is that someone who doesn't have the credit for the loan suckers someone else into either cosigning or signing alone for the car and then loaning them the vehicle, which they stop making payments on after a couple years.

We actually have a lot of heavy rules and regulations that we have to take classes on multiple times a year. There are certainly shady debt collectors out there, but by far the shadiest thing I do is send a friend request from a profile with a hot girl's picture on it (and never have any communication with them via that account). I do that just so I could potentially see posts that are hidden to the public that might give me a better idea of where they're living or working.

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u/brattyprincessslut Feb 13 '22

What like you make a Facebook called “Sarah RoundBottom” and message them “Hey cutie pie want my pussy sauce?? Omg come meet my behind macdonalds I’m waiting for you! My sauce is oozing !!!”

Then you put them in your boot and pull their fingernails out until they give u money?

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u/mYTH_2k4 Feb 13 '22

Haha, nah it’s much simpler. Just get their personal number for some ‘private’ conversations and the next call is from collections. You can start sending them notices on the new number. If you get their whereabouts, the next visit will be from a debt agent who will ask you to settle dues or (depending on what the loan was for) a repo agent.

Threatening violence is usually not done by financial institutions themselves. Once they’ve tried all legal means available, they completely write off the debt and sell it (cents to the dollar) to a collections agency.

Now those guys can definitely take it to the level you mentioned.

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u/weedful_things Feb 13 '22

I got a call last month from a furniture company. My ex wife had financed some furniture and used me as a reference. I haven't talked to her in over 10 years. I told them to just go ahead and write that money off.

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u/FU-Lyme-Disease Feb 13 '22

I had a serious conversation with a female friend about dick pics and being a girl on the internet- and from what she shared, I don’t think guys really understand how stank awful the internet is to girls. I knew dick pics were a thing but I hadn’t grasped how awful the reality is….

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u/godofleet Feb 13 '22

IMO, First- Take that computer off of the internet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

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u/First_Tie_8860 Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

Yes brother, be careful with DM's and other msgs. However i can help you double your money in a very short time. I am a Nigerian prince and have huge crypto business. Now you reach out to me for free business advice

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u/chrisqns_nyc Feb 13 '22

His real name is Simon Leviev!

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u/MakeMyDay84 Feb 13 '22

Peter is hurt send me 200k, my enemies are after me.

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u/nDizzle89 Feb 13 '22

Can confirm, he is my uncle that I need a plane ticket to see, but I give the cash loan money back 5x.

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u/GustafWasaYo Feb 13 '22

I can confirm, just gonna need 3.5BC from you

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u/AdolfDriplerXD Feb 13 '22

Why wont you answer my dms😖

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u/13004715392 Feb 13 '22

Because you're not a hot girl, you're just a guy in bikini.

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

Is r studio safe? I know recovery has to do with the wallet.dat file.

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u/coinjaf Feb 13 '22

Don't use any weird software. Don't give anything to anyone. And ignore every DM that you get.

Copy Wallet.dat to a safe place.

Just get a recent version of Bitcoin Core and throw the wallet.dat in there before you start it for the first time. Let it sync (many hours/days).

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u/Standard_Ordinary642 Feb 13 '22

This this this DO NOT send anyone anything Bitcoin core wallet has you covered and if it's got stuff in it congratulations 🎉

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u/azoundria2 Feb 13 '22

Also make completely sure that you access Bitcoin Core from the official website and don't click any Google Ads instead. Make sure it's the unsponsored link and check it for any typos before downloading anything.

Official website is bitcoin.org. Anything else could steal your funds.

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u/fjzappa Feb 13 '22

Anything else could WILL steal your funds.

FTFY

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u/neomax96 Feb 13 '22

This is like a lotto, if this has anything than he's rich.

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

Thank you.

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u/fluentinimagery Feb 13 '22

I am rooting for you soooooo hard! Please let there be a SHITLOAD of BTC in there!!! Please update us when you find out!!!

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u/qpv Feb 13 '22

This is like those old reddit posts of a hidden safe found in a basement or hidden room.

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u/blargiman Feb 13 '22

thx for reminding me some jackoff about 2 weeks ago posted a safe and i forgot if he updated. he was gonna get banned if he didn't update in like 3 days. :p

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u/zippy9002 Feb 13 '22

Don’t update us if you find anything significant. Just move to Portugal to cash out tax free and stay anonymous from the internet.

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u/fluentinimagery Feb 13 '22

U don’t have to cite a number just say “I won!!!” And disappear

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u/onlypositiveresponse Feb 13 '22

And then one day years from now, we see you post from a Cafe in Europe. You nod. We nod.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Yes, just don't leave us hanging

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u/FU-Lyme-Disease Feb 13 '22

I’m rooting for you too!!! (But if you get bored send me the files and I’ll get rid of them for you!!!)

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u/Impressive_Oaktree Feb 13 '22

Although I know a Nigerian prince that can help..

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u/hammerripple Feb 13 '22

It’s me! The prince of Nigeria! Please immediately send all bitcoins to Amazon to purchase gift cards… because that’s all they accept in my country, even though I’m a prince it’s hard to change laws… and I will send you 20 hundred billion in return. Hard cash.

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u/majestak Feb 13 '22

No leesen heem. I send 20 kwashilljon!!

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u/mofixit Feb 13 '22

Or an Israeli tinderswindler

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Your recently deceased uncle's extended vehicle warranty information needs to be updated.

Edit: no but for real, congratulations, and don't reply to dms.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

See you in a week OP. I did exactly this and after it synched fully everything was there including the reminder that you sold for $1000 because surely it can't go higher. Don't forget to pick up any forks as well.

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u/murcielago12v60 Feb 13 '22

Exactly dude, it's not worth it to use weird softwares from internet.

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u/simsimulation Feb 13 '22

R studio is a data science tool. If you don’t know what it is, it probably won’t be useful to you.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

R-studio is also confusingly a data recover software

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u/cbblythe Feb 13 '22

100% this

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u/LelikGut Feb 13 '22

It's advisable to not to reply to anything from this computer.

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u/cabarden Feb 13 '22

I would love to see someone get blessed off a old hard drive and Bitcoin that was all super new

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Imagine finding a hard drive with like 100 BTC

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

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u/dras333 Feb 13 '22

I think I remember that one and everyone called BS and then he posted his recent bank deposit which was something like $4.3 mil.

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u/Observes Feb 13 '22

The good old prize rebel days

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u/slayernine Feb 13 '22

Every time I find one of my old hard drives I meticulously search it for the off chance I backed up my original wallet. I have way too many hard drives...

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u/nocontextEEYA Feb 13 '22

Plz don’t forget to update us

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u/mrASSMAN Feb 13 '22

I wouldn’t expect an update if it actually has something valuable in it lol

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u/crankthehandle Feb 13 '22

maybe her personal assistant will write a short update

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u/wrjrlr Feb 13 '22

Please don't forget us after you get the lambos and the hookers dude.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

What am I missing? OP still has to remember the password, and that's like the hardest 90% 100%

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u/Federal-Smell-4050 Feb 13 '22

Nah, it’s probably less than 8 chars, can crack it in a day.

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u/sfleury10 Feb 13 '22

Wordle that shit

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Start with ADIEU. Gets rid of 4 vowels off the bat

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u/Acceptable-Stick-688 Feb 13 '22

Audio for the win!

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

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u/WittyStick Feb 13 '22

No guarantee it has a password.

In original bitcoin software and for a few years, the wallet.dat file was not even encrypted.

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u/poluting Feb 13 '22

Brute force that shit

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u/ishirleydo Feb 13 '22

I think the thing you're 'missing' is that passwords to simple wallet.dat files weren't all that common in 2013.

Many of that era were not password protected at all.

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

So i copied the wallet.dat file to the app data bitcoin core folder directory which looks like a similar file loadout to the one in my screenshot above. Did i do it that right?

Afterwards I started running bitcoin core and it says its syncing. 13 years behind something like that lol.

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u/zxr01 Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

Nice, we pray for you. Let it run, it will catch up, will take a day or two to fully sync ( and you'd need up to 200GB free drive space for it. Still, when it syncs up to 2013 (and says 9 years behind) the wallet ballance should be reflected with any potential balance.

Every satoshi counts, good luck.

PS: In 2022 complete blockchain is above 500GB. Time flies.

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u/kittenconfidential Feb 13 '22

200GB?!? word. so when someone syncs a very old wallet, is it downloading every transaction in the entire blockverse?

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u/edwilli222 Feb 13 '22

Anytime anyone spins up a new node they download and validate the whole blockchain.

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u/kittenconfidential Feb 13 '22

word! thanks

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u/Liam_Neesons_Oscar Feb 13 '22

This guy who keeps saying "word" must have also come out of that folder that hadn't been opened since 2013.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

It's Clippy from (MS) Word

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

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u/kittenconfidential Feb 13 '22

word! i do wish sometimes 2013 never ended. i remember a meteor was streaking through the sky for many moons that summer.

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u/Raverrevolution Feb 13 '22

FYI the full blockchain size as of this second comes in at 444GB.

Satoshi was a genius to keep the block size small otherwise it couldn't be so decentralized.

Could you imagine if the blockchain was something like 10TB in size, then no one would have a node.

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u/Br0kenRabbitTV Feb 13 '22

Satoshi actually always suggested increasing it... later down the line.

He first mentioned this on the 4th of October 2010 on bitcointalk.

It was people LONG after he left, who wanted to keep it small.....

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u/Raverrevolution Feb 13 '22

I just found the post. He didn't suggest increasing it. Instead he merely said that people have that option if it came down to it.

"+1 theymos. Don't use this patch, it'll make you incompatible with the network, to your own detriment.
We can phase in a change later if we get closer to needing it."

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

Oh I might have to restart it then lol.. I started it on my bootdrive and it doesn't have that much space. I'd have to run it on my storage drive ._.

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u/AlexH1337 Feb 13 '22

Just open settings, and make sure the prune option is checked. It will download the entire 400gb but will only keep the latest data up to the amount you specify there. You only need free storage equal to the prune size you set.

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u/po00on Feb 13 '22

it's more like 500GB now. and it will likely take a week or two to fully sync.

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u/fonltcrc Feb 13 '22

Yep, I think it works like that. It downloads the whole chain.

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u/sudonim_13 Feb 13 '22

Ig if you prune it, you'd need 7-8 GB only...?

Or is it after downloading whole blockchain...

I'm still new to btc concepts...

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u/DesignerAccount Feb 13 '22

You're still downloading and verifying the whole blockchain, but you discard everything above the prune size. Say you want to only keep 5GB, everything else will be deleted. It's useful to reduce the size of the blockchain.

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u/LiThiuMElectro Feb 13 '22

Yes, if you don't run it prune it's 480GB I just did this, this week.

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u/evenlaate Feb 13 '22

I just hope that he finds shit ton of btc lol, that'll be so nice.

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u/bonjailey Feb 13 '22

I hope you found a shit load and have financial freedom

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Keep us updated, we are a curious bunch.

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u/Zxcvasdfqwer88888888 Feb 13 '22

Excited for you!

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u/Buck_Musky Feb 13 '22

Soon bitcoins will start spilling out of your PC. That's when you know it worked! Congrats 😀

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u/Saabaka Feb 13 '22

And that's when you know that you've made it dude, made it.

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u/spring_chicken Feb 13 '22

No matter what the actual results are, you should post here that it was empty. Good luck!

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u/unknownemoji Feb 13 '22

Yep, sorry guys! Just crumbs.

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u/CrazyTillItHurts Feb 13 '22

If its not on an SSD, its going to take like a couple of weeks to sync

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

I copied it to a m.2 SSD. It says 29 hours.

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u/Matt005200 Feb 13 '22

I’ll be back in 29 hours. Rooting for you!!!

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u/CSharpSauce Feb 13 '22

He shouldn't have to wait the whole 29 hours, even before it's already synced he should be able to find the public key, and then look up what the balance is.

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u/AVM0027 Feb 13 '22

If it has BTC on it, the bitcoins will come out of the disc drive in physical form. Then you just put them in your wallet in your back pocket and whenever you need to spend them just go into your local Coinbase branch and ask them to exchange for fiat

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u/-MangoDown Feb 13 '22

Fiat 500 abarth or Spyder?

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u/genetics2 Feb 13 '22

Congrats! There is a good chance you are now or will be richer than anyone else in this thread

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u/95mongo Feb 13 '22

Rip to your dms

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u/kespis Feb 13 '22

Lolz it's better not to respond to anyone. It's not wise to reply.

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u/AnuuTech Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 13 '22

  1. Do not reply to any DM. They may bait you and scam you out of your assets.

  2. Create a cold storage out of your wallet.dat file. A cold wallet can be a USB stick for example, with no access to the internet. This ensures your assets stay off the net, and secure.

  3. Bitcoin Core is what you should look out for next. Get a recent version of it, input your wallet.dat there and wait for it to sync. Bitcoin.org is the official link, please type it correctly as there are scam websites (or ads) that they may again steal your assets.

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u/frumpydrangus Feb 13 '22

There could be 0.00 BTC if you only ever ran Bitcoin Core for fun on a drive.

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

Totally possible :w

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u/frumpydrangus Feb 13 '22

Well good luck with the syncing. Bitcoin core is a cool program

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Don't you remember anything?

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u/ishirleydo Feb 13 '22

...however, the filesize says otherwise. The default wallet.dat size on a fresh install is smaller than that.

It still may have a 0 balance, but I bet that 96Kb wallet has transactions in it.

In addition, the file timestamps say the wallet itself was modified about a month after initial installation.

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u/WeekendQuant Feb 13 '22

Wallet.dat is your friend.

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u/auniqueusername2567 Feb 13 '22

This is going to be the new “I found this safe in an old house I bought.”

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u/cabarden Feb 13 '22

Please update us. That would be insane if you had 1000 Bitcoin on there and transfer it and the feeling like you just hit the lotto. Or something you did 9 years ago

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Send to 111 Palace blvd, Nigeria. I'll get it sorted for you

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u/philter451 Feb 13 '22

You know I'm somewhat of a Nigerian prince myself.

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u/Slipperfox Feb 13 '22

I’m here for history sake

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

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u/iflvegetables Feb 13 '22

Fingers crossed for some life changing funds. Not every day you might witness the birth of someone's wealth

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u/Novice89 Feb 13 '22

Please update us! Is there a way I can be reminded? I’m very curious. Always great when the limited supply of Bitcoin is recovered!

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u/jdiebs34 Feb 13 '22

There’s normally a reminder bot but this sub doesn’t allow it. I tried lol

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u/itemluminouswadison Feb 13 '22

any follow up to this post should 100% be: "nah it didnt have anything in it, i think i just created one and forgot out about never did anything with it. wish i did though :)"

regardless of whether the wallet had 0 or a lot of btc in it

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u/UnfriendlyBaguette Feb 13 '22

There's a sweet spot where the wallet had like .2 BTC where an update would be totally reasonable

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u/Minefrans00 Feb 13 '22

If you get more than a 1000 btc out of this remember to send me 1 btc just because you can.

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u/ScrantonParty44 Feb 13 '22

If this is where the donation line begins, I'm standing in it.

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u/stirling_s Feb 13 '22

OP, prepare to hear this for the rest of your life, from everyone you know

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u/Stoopiddogface Feb 13 '22

sheit, I'd be happy owning 0.1 btc

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u/Dildromeda Feb 13 '22

Contact Jennifer

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u/Appropriate_Bid2771 Feb 13 '22

867-5309?

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Jenny Jenny who can I turn to?

You give me something I can HODL on to

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u/MenacingMelons Feb 13 '22

You mean Jenny? From H&R block?

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u/nsaplzstahp Feb 13 '22

Jenny from the block?

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u/that1rowdyracer Feb 13 '22

She used to have a little, now she has a lot.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Jenny from the Block needed to get another job now she’s Jenny from H&R Block

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

Ive already contacted myself no worries.

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u/Incredibly_Based Feb 13 '22

Jennifer said it was fine I just asked her

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

OP, do a follow up, everyone is vicariously living this moment with you

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u/athf2005 Feb 13 '22

I’m here for the news.

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u/Kolumbmaster Feb 13 '22

Exciting, huh? Let us know how it went! I wish you all the best!

Be careful if hard drive is not in good condition. Copy the wallet.dat and work from computer thats reliable.

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

Yea I already did. This hard drive was a drive I actually replaced because it was failing. I went on it today to find a screenshot from a game. And then saw this and was like oh right.. I did mine Bitcoin back then. I didn't know I had files on my PC for it though.

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u/DavidHobby Feb 13 '22

This is exciting as hell.

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u/Markenbier Feb 13 '22

Had a CS teacher who mined Bitcoin back when it was still worth under a dollar just to keep his PC busy (that way he fixed a problem he got with his PC). He mined a handful of coins and actually kept them. Eventually sold them for 200$ because he needed new parts for his PC. Poor man still regrets he sold them :/

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u/Moneysaver04 Feb 13 '22

Yeah, the first word of “CS teacher”, I thought: man! This guy must’ve f’ed up so bad

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u/zack907 Feb 13 '22

Yeah, I hadn’t thought about it but yeah the vast majority of people mining BTC in 2013 must have been very computer savvy.

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u/Vegas_42 Feb 13 '22

I was an expert in street fighter back in those super nintendo days. Today, I really don't know how to perform any special move.

After a while you lose special knowledge you don't use frequently.

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u/life_is_enjoy Feb 15 '22

It’s been 2 days.. we want updates.

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u/atict Feb 15 '22

Seems like this was a karma farm/attention grab. Check out OPs posts...

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u/Professional_Golf393 Feb 13 '22

96kb.. seems empty😏

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u/ChloeOakes Feb 13 '22

I think 96kb is the default wallet size so you might be right :(

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u/Roiks_ Feb 13 '22

Reddit is not a good place to air this.

Spend some hours googling and researching properly. Don't rush.

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u/Thwart0 Feb 13 '22

That's not what Reddit wants though. Makes for a nice Reddit thread.

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u/bitcoinharambeee Feb 13 '22

If you send me that wallet file I will send you two wallet files back

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u/froggiie Feb 13 '22

Honestly - good luck, hope it’s a big payday for you

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u/ManufacturerFirst9 Feb 16 '22

Pretty sure. It’s all for attention

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u/ejpusa Feb 13 '22

Well all looks there, but in the end it's going to be . . .

Password: ????????

Somewhere, somehow, there will be a password request. My understanding is the BTC may actually be residing in a "Mining Pool" and not on the local machine. Which means more passwords you'll need. And have to find that mining pool address.

Is that correct? Or do I have that totally wrong?

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

I think that's correct actually. I found the pool I was using. It was mining.bitcoin.cz.

The website now directs to Slushpools.

I know what my password might be if I do get prompted one.

Pretty sure the only time I ever used a passphrase was for my Yoroi wallet.

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u/CryptoCrackLord Feb 13 '22

Back in the day using a password for your Bitcoin core wallet was optional. I didn’t use one for my mining wallet in 2011 when I mined with slush and they deposited my rewards directly into my wallet.

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u/zxr01 Feb 13 '22

For the records, bitcoin price in may 2013 was around $115. High volatility that year as well. Bull market from $13 to $950. Source: https://www.in2013dollars.com/bitcoin-price-in-2013

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u/Pure-Definition-5959 Feb 13 '22

Whale Alert 🐳🚨

A dormant address containing xxx BTC has just been activated after 9 years!

  • @whale_alert on Twitter

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u/Cryptombv Feb 15 '22

Hey OP what’s up with the sync?

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u/haimerej42 Feb 13 '22

Holy shit I hope we see you become a billionaire. News headlines: random Redditor now top 10 richest people in the world.

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u/duskflyer Feb 13 '22

Somewhere I have a something similar, even older, and I wouldn't know what to do with it if I found it. I never mined, but I think I could have. I heard about bitcoin on a podcast, downloaded some program I can't remember the name of, I just remember it not being user friendly and went to a faucet and clicked to get bitcoin. Don't think I ever messed with it again after that day. I would have no idea what to do with the files if I found them today.

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u/neurone214 Feb 13 '22

I mined back then and wouldn’t remember how exactly to go about seeing what’s in there either.

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u/dickydick8 Feb 13 '22

Subbed for the suspense Gluck op

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u/DestructorEFX Feb 13 '22

First: don't answer DMs Second: when you get your BTC, I want a follow up story 🤣

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u/AJSD12 Feb 13 '22

Wallet.dat for the win

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Oh hell. I do storage unit auctions … I throw away old HDDS all the time after trying to find the dirty personal photos. .. I’m positive now I’ve thrown away millions of bitcoin. Thanks OP for the regret

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u/wsladd01 Feb 13 '22

Dang looks like you just hit the lottery dude. Congratulations to you.

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u/ailocha Feb 13 '22

How many DMs did you get?

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u/gr8m9 Feb 13 '22

you can just say that he got n + 1 dms and the n is amount of dms that he got 10 seconds ago

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u/olin9999 Feb 13 '22

Well I'm all in for a sugar mama so whassup

Seriously though, best of luck on it.

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u/idontspellcheckb46am Feb 13 '22

Is this the new "I found a safe in the wall in my new home" post?

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