https://www.bitaddress.org/

Download that to a very offline computer. Click on the 'wallet details' section. Feed the strings you have into the private key box and see if an address pops up. You can then check that address on a block explorer for a balance.

If it's a valid private key you can sweep it into many different wallets.

Blimey. For the first time ever you do sound happy.

I think full time infestation in crypto is pretty bad for anyone's well being. It's a cesspit of paranoia, misdirection, schadenfreude, regret and dishonesty.

Some people thrive off it, others are feasted on. That's why I've barely ever traded. Far too much stress and fuckery.

One year of crypto trading on mescaline could be a very interesting odyssey.

You can't magic the required tech out of thin air. At least it's out there waiting to be tapped.

It is a slightly odd one. A mobile phone costs less and already does the same thing, however this is one of those things that should throw up some currently un thought of possibilities.

This thread is rather like a chapel. You come here to contemplate and reflect, not interact with everyone else.

And if me grandma had balls she'd be me grandpa as they say.

There was definitely something extra between one grandma's legs, but that was because she ripped her sphincter to pieces falling off a ladder.

Thank you for providing a wonderful case study of exactly how a zombie account writes.

I genuinely don't think I could've come up with a better example with a few weeks of tweaking.

They have Satoshi in a cage in the corner of their office and have done since 2011. Those pesky illuminati never miss a trick and they haven't here.  

And is it conceivable that the people who've taken giant surreptitious positions are slowly coming out of the woodwork?

Um, more likely he'd wind up with a load of worthless shite that he can gaily send to himself back and forth while eating from his nosebag.

When will people like this figure out that the world will not revolve around them no matter what they attempt?

Group hug.

And good luck OP for the sale.

I've started to see the occasional mention of taking out bank loans here and there. That's definitely not a reassuring sign.

Anyone who's relatively new here should read through the late 2013 period on this forum. It's all easily accessible. I'm not sure there are that many parallels, a great deal has moved further on, but that brash overconfidence might well return. 10k was in the bag for 2014. Until it wasn't.

I actually photographed mine and stuck pics on here when it arrived.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=903503.msg10356400#msg10356400

These are from being just dug out. It's definitely deteriorated.

Maybe it's worth considering the conditions at the time of their creation. They were purely created to shine a light on Bitcoin. The brass ones were manufactured by a car wash token company. They were selling for about $7 when first launched.

If he'd realised just how valuable they'd become he might have put more care into the printing. I assume everything'll be fine but it probably wasn't military grade stuff.

Read around here in late 2013. Of course things are radically different since then, but human nature isn't.

In my experience when you read 'we will never see x price again' x price comes back a few hours later and then a few weeks later people are pining for it.

That's what people here do. It's referred to as account farming.

I don't think many stick around long enough to turn those accounts into heroes or legends. And if they are sold they're usually tagged as farmed accounts. It's very obvious from the quality of the posting.

Considering the amount of time it takes, at least a year or two to reach hero level, there are better things people can do with their time.

I've got one of these too. From looking at others and my own the application of the goldness was a bit sloppy compared the loaded coins. Mine has a few dribbles here and there.

It's a game of chicken, except on the very day the agreement was announced some of the people who agreed to it said that they kinda hadn't so they're already halfway out the door.

If they felt that way on the day, their confidence in it certainly won't have grown as time passes. The Segwit bit was simple enough. The other bit, rather less so.

I don't think anything is that easy myself. There are still plenty of things to iron out.

A pretty much unsullied run to those price levels is conceivable, but all it takes in the tens of thousands is for a few people to think 'hang on, what am I paying for here?' and then a few others join them and before we know it we're back to peanuts again.

At this moment in time it needs more than greater fools. There should be more reasons to justify why the sellers are fools.

You could argue it's been seriously undervalued for ages and that might make sense. You can also say the exact opposite and convince just as many people. There's no way knowing and the truth doesn't really matter, only the sentiment.

I reckon there's far, far more than a million inaccessible coins. And there are quite a few people with tens of thousands of coins and more.

Combine the two and there may only be a few million that will ever come anywhere near a marketplace. I wonder whether that'll actually be regarded as a detriment if it really goes bonkers.

The Russia mining news involves two things that are traditional indicators of crypto disaster. One is ICO. The other is Russians.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Not necessarily. I might want to spend it. I might not want something physically accessible lying around. I may want it all installed in a hardware wallet.

I really couldn'tbe arsed with face to face sales and showing up with a sawn off in my panties. I like the sound of a legit auction house but a long wait could be in order indeed.