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I found my wallet.dat from 2013 in a thumb drive.

I dont remember how i mined them, i never purchased them i used my GPU back then to mine it, didn't even remember how much i had.

I found some info and bitcoin core and follow the directions about replacing the empty wallet with the one i had. Once the network synced under recent transactions it tells 12/18/13 16:17 and [+2.605BTC]

On the pop up window it shows the following.

https://imgur.com/a/I8zZOPx

It has been like this forever, do i have any options left?

Thanks guys/gals.

you are lucky to have found that back.  if its encrypted and you know your password just dump and use electrum

I cannot recall the password, and not sure how i would go about even trying what i think might be the password.

I do have a guy that said he could brute force it in a week or so.

Be very careful whom you trust. Random people on the internet promising things like this almost always are scammers trying to steal what you own.

It could mean that the transaction is invalid or just dropped from mempools.
Since your node is synced, that transaction must have been marked from "Unknown" to "Unconfirmed: not in mempool" after scanning the blockchain.
Note: "Not in mempool" mean that the transaction is neither in your node's mempool nor in the Blockchain.

You can use testmempoolaccept command to see if you can still send it to the nodes, follow this:

• In the transactions tab, right click on that transaction, then select "Copy raw transaction"
• Open Bitcoin core's console, "Window->Console" and type (including the single/double quotation marks):
  

  testmempoolaccept '["PASTE_THE_COPIED_RAW_TXN_HERE"]'

• If it says "allowed": true,, then it can still be mined if you "broadcast" it and since it's an inbound txn, you'll receive the amount after some confirmations.
  I recommend you to broadcast it only after retrieving the password.

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For the password, I can't help you with that.

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OP didn't log in since the day he started this topic. I don't think he resolved it since the funds are still there and haven't been moved.

But just in case he is reading this, I want to inform him (bad news) that what he found is not a bitcoin wallet but an LTC wallet. This is why he got the "not in mempool" message on bitcoin core, because he was looking in the wrong chain.

If you look up the txid on an LTC block explorer you will see that he received 2.605 LTC on 12/18/2013, just as he described:
https://blockchair.com/litecoin/transaction/7d0b4ee874bd0f9fd3e179b123ba4ad41547107bdf96c956ca5947aa962275e9