What did you import? Note: Don't post your private keys here!
Is it a private key starting with "5", "K" or "L", and 51 or 52 characters long?

What did you import? Note: Don't post your private keys here!
Is it a private key starting with "5", "K" or "L", and 51 or 52 characters long?

An older wallet may or may not still contain funds, it depends on what else you did after making the backup.

You first need to find out which addresses inside of your wallet contain a balance.
You can check this by entering them in a block explorer (e.g. https://live.blockcypher.com/).

If you don't have a clue, you should either just let it sync or dump the whole wallet using this command:

Then simply import all private keys into electrum.

The easiest probably would be if you  move your wallet.dat to another computer with core installed (into the data directory, usually located in C:\Users\USER\Appdata\Roaming\Bitcoin).
Then you will be able to dump the private keys using these commands:

(to unlock your wallet for 600 seconds)

(to dump the private key)

Note: Do not delete ANY wallet.dat files. Only rename them. This way you can't mess up and accidentally delete the wrong file.

If you don't deserve merit, you won't get any. That's what merit was created for: reward those who can do HQ posts, help users, contribute with the forum, etc...

Anyone can make constructive posts if they actually care about having real discussions instead of only focusing on ranking up, joining bounties or making the minimum amount of posts to get paid on a signature campaign.

Es gibt nicht die eine Coin, die das Rennen machen wird. Bitcoin hat sich als digitales Gold bewährt, und hat mit funktionierendem Lightning auch Ambitionen als Bezahlcoin.

Was Bitcoin aber z.B. nicht sein will: eine dApp-Plattform wie EOS oder Ethereum.

IOTA hingegen will eine Währung für das Internet der Dinge sein, und konkurriert beispielsweise nicht mit Monero, dass eine Privacy-Coin ist.

XRP ist mit seinem Bank-to-Bank-Usecase auch mehr oder weniger außer Konkurrenz.

-->Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn: Coins haben unterschiedliche Zwecke ("FIAT Konkurrenz zu machen" ist vielleicht der älteste und wichtigste, aber nur einer davon, und eigentlich auch nur eine Variante eines übergeordneten Gedankens: Dezentralität) und wurden mit diesen im Hinterkopf entworfen. Auf CMC werden alle in einen Topf geworfen und nach einem (nicht mal unbdingt korrekt berechneten) Marketcap in ein Ranking gezwängt. Manche Coins konkurrieren dort untereinander, aber die meisten haben gar nichts miteinander zu tun. So wie in einem Aktienindex. Amazon ist auch kein Konkurrent von Ford und BASF konkurriert nicht mit der CoBa, auch wenn sie im selben Index gelistet sind.

Bitcoin ist die wichtigste Coin, wird aber aus o.g. Gründen eben nicht allein das Rennen machen, so dass auch Wertschöpfung mit Alts möglich ist.

None of us, has a crystal ball and we're not all-in on the tech, we are emotional individuals and we've been financially attacked.  

If the majority of us were looking at the same chart and a general direction of the market, guess who will see that, and take advantage when opportunity awaits. It's the seasoned vets. They've been there, done that. The finance guys shorting the markets for a living. We could argue speculation, math and politics all day long, but, what's been done has been done. None of us have crystal balls. One instrument we access to is past history. We can see that they are real numbers. But they are in the past for everyone else to see.. I want to quote a few of Warren Buffett's quotes that came up in my mind when people were panicking.

"The investors of today does not profit from yesterday's growth." "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree along time ago."

"What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history." When investors get either too fearful or too greedy, they sometimes hide behind the notion that "This time it's different." Usually they regret it.

"If past history was all there, the richest people would be librarians."

You can teach risk management, but you can't teach balls. It's definitely going to be harder to grow your investments in this space. My personal advice would be to hold. I don't know where you got in or out, but eventually, you will learn from your mistakes and you will have that much more knowledge in the next run. I hope this helps

Well any wise nation looking for means to grow it economy must embrace bitcoin and other digital currencies due to the fact that the blockchain has the capacity to transform any countries economy do to it advanced way of carrying out financial transactions. And any country who will not embrace this will defiantly leave to regret it.

Saving money is really tough. You might ignore it at once, but when you are about to save some, you just are like "Screw it, I am gonna buy a pack of cigarettes." Saving money is not about depriving yourself of necessary things, but it is about saving 30% and spend 70%. These 30% are quite enough to make a good fortune. I, myself, do not save money. If I do so, I will be rich. Saving money needs a strong determination and patience. That is why people fail to save money.

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İt depens on what you mean by controlling.To control bitcoin you have to own it.
Other than that, governments can have lots of it if they want to but it looks like that is not happening openly.
We don't know who the whales are, or if they are working for some government really.Maybe they are already controlling it.

bitcoin reaching its goal or peak?  hhmm bitcoin is just starting ,there is going to be more usage,more mass adoption,the price will even sky rocket more than what it is today...bitcoin is yet to get to its goal..

I urge you to always search through the forum before posting certain questions, because this has been answered alot of times,
Regardless.

How much time do you spend on bounty campaigns?
You can spend as much as 18 hours daily on bounties depending on the number of bounties, you participate in and depending on the task as well, Moreover, the time does not matter; what matters is , Invest your time in profitable bounties

Is it worth doing bounty campaigns?
Yes, bounties are worth it, if you dedicate your time and efforts to it.


How much can you make from one bounty campaigns?
close to 2000$ depending on no of bounties at a time.

I can't remember on how much I've earned with altcoins but it's more than enough to be happy with my regular salary for few months.

During the peak times, I managed to took some profits from other altcoin investments that really gave me another source to invest all the profits to bitcoin.