Greetings, everyone!
Today, I had a bit of nostalgia, and I found an ancient BTC wallet.dat on a hard drive that I had used a long time ago. I started mining in the early days, but all were sold way too early or invested in other coins that did not make it.
I was curious to learn more about this old wallet file, and I could still recall the password - yes, it was encrypted!
The last time the address was used was in 2013, and it was a dried one. But you know, dry in 2013 had a different meaning compared to now.
I loaded the wallet, and I could see the address; 1EqtAeYzU4fU26BwFHFZZF2n3YivA85rVk, with 0.6M satoshi in it.
Once again, this was $0.00 at that time, but today, it would be a nice $650. Fun fact: looking through these old microtransactions, I've seen that once, a fee of $4.8M Sats was paid, which would be worth $5,024.76 today!!
I'm trying to synchronize the wallet and, hopefully, to be able to transfer these coins. But it will take time. Estimated time left until for synced: 31 hours!
I'll keep you posted.
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I was left wondering, were you able to recover it?
It takes incredibly long to sync the wallet. My PC was 100% on during the last few days and just reached February 2024. Work in progress...
Hopefully you will be able to get it back, best regards!
What a nice surprise! hope you get those satoshis!
How fortunate that you found that. I wish I had been aware of BTC at that time.
Good luck, you reminded me about a very old account. Checking for it, I found keys and word sets for some strange wallets: Helim, Electroneum, Ontology, Kusama, Polkadot, EOS, one very old ETH account with 14$ in it, NEO, NXT, ARDOR, and some tokens that died in between 2018-2022. It was funny.
Good luck on that old account. I hope you are able to get back some of that old crypto.
Cool! I hope if you get your sats, you won't have to pay something like 10% of them on fees when you move them.