Need a bit of help with old wallet, please

[lilcash]

Hello there,

I will try to make things short. Back in 2011 or so I played a bit with mining... on an ancient HD 4850 Radeon. You can imagine it was not that great (at time) and I gave up after a while as it seemed worthless. I have used Bitcoin Core (at least i think I did...) and backuped a wallet.dat file. I also have an address where the pool transfered my bitcoin. I can't seem to remember anything else...

So the thing is. when I revisited this address it looks like it's now 1300 USD or so. That is a new PC for me, and there's one business in my country where I can pay with Bitcoin too. They have this screen where I can scan a QR code, but they seem to also have a direct transfer to address option.

My question is: how do I get my bitcoin in a state where I can pay there? Any idea how much would I lose? The bitcoin is barely enough for a decent GTX 1070 ti/8700k/motherboard/ram so anything is hurting.

What I did as of now:

- downloaded last version of bitcoin
- started to download the monster thing and oh my god it will take forever
- replaced the wallet.dat with mine (it detects all but the last transaction which is 2017, where I took everything that was left on the mining pool)

Any advice? thanks a lot.

[lilcash]

Small update:

I managed to get things done through the latest Bitcoin Core by dumping the passkey, adding my address to a blockchain wallet as watch only, and then using the passkey I extracted with Bitcoin Core console to make a transaction, happy that it worked. Posting as it might help others in my case.

However, I do have another small question.

When I start searching for a PC, bitcoin was peaking at 16-17K USD - amazing luck to find the wallet just now. But before I was able to work things out, it dropped vertiginously and I had to make quite a few adjutments and compromises in my components to fit in what I had. Just as I made the panic order, fearing bitcoin will drop so low I won't be able to purchase what I wanted at all, it started to grow yet again, and now with those coins I could buy a PSU and case, or better motherboard.

The store I purchased from offers me a cancel order option, as they can't process stuff until Monday. However, the transaction fees were quite hefty at 150-170 USD or so I think.

So if I would cancel this order to buy something better - would I lose these fees? Would all my bitcoin be returned intact? Or I'm better just being happy with what I purchased and shouldn't attempt this.

Thanks.

[lilcash]

Nobody has any idea if I lose transfer fees (blockchain wallet) if I cancel an order I made? If all the BTC will be refunded to the wallet?

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

[MR2O4]

My understanding is that the transfer fees for Bitcoin will not be returnable - these will have not gone to your supplier, but to the miners processing that payment.

[lilcash]

My understanding is that the transfer fees for Bitcoin will not be returnable - these will have not gone to your supplier, but to the miners processing that payment.

Makes sense. I guess I'll be better off just sticking to the compromises I had to make and not cancel or modify anything just to make sure I'm not losing 150 USD on nothing. After all, it's a damn free 8700k+motherboard, GTX 1070 Ti and RAM, things that I would have had to save for another year and with this they basically fell off the sky just because a few nights of mining in 2011.

Oh well. Thanks for the reply!