Ok like the title says I have some old wallet that belonged to my late friend.
He died in 2021 from Corona and his parents asked me to check his computers and mails and such.
It took them some time since they were still grieving or not ready to face the truth.
Now there were no apps related to crypto, no search history for any know exchange or anything about crypto mining, no mails for anything that i could though of ( at least in the email I had access to )....
The only thing I found was old btc wallet from 2013.
I tried looking for address/pools inside it but failed - i didn't load it into any wallet like Electrum so i have no idea if there are any coins there.
I explained to his parents what it is and told them it could have insane value or basically be worthless - there was no password file or any private keys in that folder where wallet was or anywhere on his drives ( SSDs, HDDs, Flash drives ).
So now I am not sure what to do, should I just keep it or try to open and see ( i really doubt there is anything there ).
If there are coins inside i won't be able to use/transfer them without pass and bruteforce wont probably work.
So does anyone have any suggestion?
First of all did your friend tell you he owns some amount of Bitcoin Before he died? or in any way tell his parents and siblings about his Bitcoin holdings, This way you will be able know where to begin with because these are things you have to be certain about so you don't end up wasting a whole lot of time seeking nothing. When this is ascertained, now this gives you the courage to do whatever you can and it will take to try to recover or get access to the wallet. His parents should also help you in checking some of his files, if by chance he wrote down his key phrases somewhere on a paper and this will make the whole process even easier for you. No sadly ne never talked about it or mentioned anything in regard to crypto. That is what it makes it strange. His parents are in late 70s and not really technically "educated" so until I told them what it was they never actually heard about Bitcoin. Unfortunately he was the only child, never married, no kids, and last girlfriend he had was late 10.years ago. At the moment it is just a project if I get access great if not well I won't lose my sleep over it. I just wanted to know if anyone had any idea what do to because it kinda hit me hard even though friend was never really a talkative person and kept to himself so that could be the reason if he did had some coins he never mentioned it. |
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So now I am not sure what to do, should I just keep it or try to open and see ( i really doubt there is anything there ).
The matter is quite clear, you got access to the computer, and now you just need to get permission to load that file and see what's in it - of course, do it in the presence of his parents. If there are coins inside i won't be able to use/transfer them without pass and bruteforce wont probably work.
Maybe you found an empty wallet, and maybe the wallet doesn't have any protection - even if it does, maybe you'll find the password somewhere in his personal belongings or on the computer. In any case, whatever you do, be careful not to download a fake wallet - and if you want to try Electrum, I advise you to read -> [GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]I'm really not sure. I will ask parents during weekend to check again, perhaps there are some hidden files for which I didn't looked for. Thanks for the link.
It is wallet.dat for early 2013..not really big file, some 70-80kb of I remember correctly. Will have to check when I get back home. I don't plan the send it, unless it proves to be empty, perhaps someone could use old wallet. Thanks for that. I will check that link as well. |
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His parents asked me, they were basically looking if there any of his photos because he didn't like to take phots so they don't have many.
They didn't even turn on his computer until then. I was the 1st one to turn it on in almost 3 years.
There was no will or anything so everything he had went to his parents.
I don't know if he would mind but i am sure that he would like his parents to get it if there are some coins inside.
So not here asking for any personal gain or anything, just if someone has idea what to do or should i just tell them i tried and forget about it
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Ok like the title says I have some old wallet that belonged to my late friend.
He died in 2021 from Corona and his parents asked me to check his computers and mails and such.
It took them some time since they were still grieving or not ready to face the truth.
Now there were no apps related to crypto, no search history for any know exchange or anything about crypto mining, no mails for anything that i could though of ( at least in the email I had access to )....
The only thing I found was old btc wallet from 2013.
I tried looking for address/pools inside it but failed - i didn't load it into any wallet like Electrum so i have no idea if there are any coins there.
I explained to his parents what it is and told them it could have insane value or basically be worthless - there was no password file or any private keys in that folder where wallet was or anywhere on his drives ( SSDs, HDDs, Flash drives ).
So now I am not sure what to do, should I just keep it or try to open and see ( i really doubt there is anything there ).
If there are coins inside i won't be able to use/transfer them without pass and bruteforce wont probably work.
So does anyone have any suggestion?
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I would say no. XRP is a token. not a coin.
It has been constantly dropping, well now it is a bit higher, since the last peak in 2021.
In other words I would stay away from any token unless you get it for free or really negligible price!
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I have seen some guy buying them on Instagram, don't remember the exact price but something like 2-3$
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Hey thanks for response.
I know that I can use some exchange to sell/trade. The only reason why I posted here is because I wanted to do it directly, well direct trade.
Not in a hurry to do it, so I can wait few days. If no one needs it I will sell/trade using the exchange.
Alright, I do get it. Good luck if you ever find that person willing to have a deal with you. Do not forget to make your transaction safe and by having an escrow, that's going to help both of you to do it safely. Here's a list of the Recommended bitcointalk escrow services. Thanks, sold one part to a guy I used to trade before, so still have some amount I will sell. I just hope ETH/BTC won't go over 2,000/30,000 in next week or so 😊😊😊 |
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Hey thanks for response.
I know that I can use some exchange to sell/trade. The only reason why I posted here is because I wanted to do it directly, well direct trade.
Not in a hurry to do it, so I can wait few days. If no one needs it I will sell/trade using the exchange.
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Like the subject says I am selling Ravencoin, willing to sell certain percentage of total amount I have.
If you are interested please contact me, we can do a trade via BTC, ETH or LTC.
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Hehe it is so funny like nvidia is kinder garden. If i could talk to nvidias people to face ehhh ehh. What happened? Where is gamers that wanted cards? These gpu manufaturerers will never find good customer like a miner  To be honest I think 80% of the cards are bought by gamers/designers, also there is much bigger chance that miner will burn gpu than gamer. My kid is playing on 1080ti ( I have no intention of getting him better until he gets better in school) for 5+ years, card was cleaned few times in that time, thermal paste never changed... No issues with the card, I think chances for the same card to survive 5+ years of 24/7 mining, barely any cleaning... are slim If 80% of the cards are bought by gamers/designers, then there would be no such price reduction in the market. The demand for video cards grows only when the payback of a video card in mining is 6-12 months. I have a lot of GTX 1060,1070,1080 and RX 470-480 video cards that have been mining for more than 5 years. The fans are broken. Chinese fans from aliexpress are of very poor quality and work for 3-4 months, so I use standard 80x80. Very small amount of population actually mines, granted a single miner can have 1000s of cards but there are 100s of millions of games/designers around the world world. That ROI wasn't possible in quite a long time, especially 6 months. Two? years ago I was able to sell 1080ti for more money that I bought it for and it was 3 years old, out of warranty and so on. Yeah but you probably take care of the cards, they are not in closed in case, you clean then,l and so on, I know "gamers" that have never cleaned a card, they have a carpet of dust and other shit but the card still works because they don't "abuse" it that much. Also many gpus are flashed to use less power and give more mhs while many gamers overclock their cards. Also cards you mentioned are beasts, I had more 2xxx died in a year that 1xxx in 4-5 |
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Hehe it is so funny like nvidia is kinder garden. If i could talk to nvidias people to face ehhh ehh. What happened? Where is gamers that wanted cards? These gpu manufaturerers will never find good customer like a miner To be honest I think 80% of the cards are bought by gamers/designers, also there is much bigger chance that miner will burn gpu than gamer. My kid is playing on 1080ti ( I have no intention of getting him better until he gets better in school) for 5+ years, card was cleaned few times in that time, thermal paste never changed... No issues with the card, I think chances for the same card to survive 5+ years of 24/7 mining, barely any cleaning... are slim |
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Meta has burned $15 billion trying to build the metaverse — and nobody's saying exactly where the money wentMeta has spent more than $15 billion on its Reality Labs metaverse venture since the beginning of last year, but so far, the company hasn't shared on what, precisely, money is being spent.
Some experts are getting worried the company is spending good money after bad.
"The problem is that they spend the money, but the transparency with investors has been a disaster," Dan Ives, a tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, said.
"This continues to be a risky bet by Zuckerberg and the team because, for now, they're betting money on the future while they continue to have massive headwinds on their core business," he added. I always thought that Metaverse is a stupid idea, it can only succeed when VR is massively popular, which it is not right now. Zuck is trying to put a cart before the horse. It might be stupid idea but if you corner the market first then you have much better starting position. I like you anology but imagine that you have a cart that is so much ahead that getting horse later won't matter. 15 billion is a gamble but a gamble that might pay off 100x over. |
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I would invest in Ravencoin, I bought a lot in 2018 for average price of 0.018$ and since then it has dropped only once under that price. Mined a lot ( quite a lot ) and now sitting at close to 3mill, my new plan is not to be greedy like last time and sell most when it goes to 0.2-0.3$
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Well I have my hopes up, I'm still mining it with 20% of my mining rigs + i have bought some 500,000 when it was 1.8cents few years ago and then decided to switch some of the rigs to mine it.
So far I have mined about 2million ( and haven't sold any so far ), at this moment mining about 3000/day and I'm happy how things are going so far but I have to admit that I'm sad I haven't sold any when it was selling for 25cent+
So my question is how many of you are mining it/hoarding it and for what price are you willing to part with all or certain percentage you have?
You shouldn't stick with ravencoin only, you already have millions so stop and look into other good coin like Flux, ravencoin is good for peer-to-peer payment and its pow but flux is more than that, I believe flux will be bigger in future, try to diversify. Oh im not, I have many other coins, some were a bust some are in a good position. Glad Raven is still there, when the next big jump comes ill sell probably all. Atm planning to buy some more but still not decided  |
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I don't understand why you didn't sell these coins for 20 cents. You can wait a long time for a good price or your coins will depreciate. I am selling coins in a bull market and I don't plan to sell anything right now because I have enough financial reserve.
Because at that point in my head it wouldn't change much, I mean I would have made 10x "invested" well more sinceI only bought 500k rest was mined ( and rigs were payed out years before ) but TBH i was perhaps kinda greedy, I wanted a bit more, my idea was to sell at 40cent, not sure why I had that number in my mind. When the next jump comes I just hope I wont make same mistake  We are all waiting for the next bull run but unfortunately it seems like we are from all late 2021 and up until now in a full crypto winter.As long as you have the coins there is not much you can do except being patient.They say "Patience is the virtue of the winner" and I think you should keep this phrase to you like a religion.You should be patient no matter what,even if the price of RVN goes to like 0.0025 dollars you should not make a not so well thought move. Sadly all i can do now is wait, I have time and im not going to lose sleep over it but if it comes then there will be a new thing to "worry" about, how to get that money into legal waters |
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It’s hard to say what will happen. Some miners of small cap coins got lucky in the past and held and sold during strong bull runs for 10x gains however there are some projects out there that simply failed and they didn’t make anything.
If you are just mining with 20% it’s fine but keep in mind that there is no guarantee the coin will go to ATH again. Many alts can lose 90% and you think it bottomed but it loses another 90%.
Oh i know that, invested in may alt coins over the years, 90% tanked but 10% that didnt made me profit thats 5-6x invested in all alt coins put together My idea is to never lose money as in sell what i mine to pay expenses, to live a bit and rest I keep in case of next huge pump |
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I don't understand why you didn't sell these coins for 20 cents. You can wait a long time for a good price or your coins will depreciate. I am selling coins in a bull market and I don't plan to sell anything right now because I have enough financial reserve.
Because at that point in my head it wouldn't change much, I mean I would have made 10x "invested" well more sinceI only bought 500k rest was mined ( and rigs were payed out years before ) but TBH i was perhaps kinda greedy, I wanted a bit more, my idea was to sell at 40cent, not sure why I had that number in my mind. When the next jump comes I just hope I wont make same mistake |
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Oh I am quite happy with it at this point. I hope as BTC goes up Raven will follow and like you said sell all at 25cent and cash out - if it reaches that high next time My moto has always been hold as much coins as you can but sell coins you need to cover your monthly expenses. You could also trade your RVN for a basket of coins in order to diversify. But you are in an enviable position even at 3.8 cent RVN. Most miners years ago sold 99% of their coins instead of HODLing them and making millions. I personally missed out on hundreds of thousands of DOGE, DASH, ETH and LTC because I never saved up enough of the coins. From now on I'll never repeat that mistake again and I'll keep mining during the bear market. My moto has always been sell enough coins you make to pay for bills + have a decent life ( changes daily/monthly due to value of coins i mine - atm raven and ETH ). So far I have always been in profit, had friends that lost 100s of thousands because they waited some insane numbers they have set, like one friend that waited for ripple to get to 10USD and then sell. |
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Oh I am quite happy with it at this point. I hope as BTC goes up Raven will follow and like you said sell all at 25cent and cash out - if it reaches that high next time My moto has always been hold as much coins as you can but sell coins you need to cover your monthly expenses. |
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Well I have my hopes up, I'm still mining it with 20% of my mining rigs + i have bought some 500,000 when it was 1.8cents few years ago and then decided to switch some of the rigs to mine it.
So far I have mined about 2million ( and haven't sold any so far ), at this moment mining about 3000/day and I'm happy how things are going so far but I have to admit that I'm sad I haven't sold any when it was selling for 25cent+
So my question is how many of you are mining it/hoarding it and for what price are you willing to part with all or certain percentage you have?
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