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April 24, 2016, 02:12:45 PM
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so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu" well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah.. rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else. its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion  price around aug 2011 was around $10. so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing |
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April 24, 2016, 02:46:57 PM |
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You are very lucky mate  Personally I don't do any backups and unfortunately I can't recover the clams I have on some of my old empty wallets from 2013 onward. I am kicking myself now for not safekeeping the private keys somewhere oh well lesson learned I guess. I am logging everything now on a password manager that can save notes and such crucial data. Do you guys think cloud storage is good for backups or an external drive is better? |
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April 24, 2016, 02:52:15 PM |
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its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion price around aug 2011 was around $10. hmm even if i bought some random currency online for fifty bucks. im definitely sure I'd remember it lol. Although i remember finding a really small amount amount of bitcoins in a wallet that i stored on my old USB drive. have no clue when i got those. |
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April 24, 2016, 02:53:38 PM |
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Do you guys think cloud storage is good for backups or an external drive is better?
both. but I like local. redundant, rolling and multiple backups is whats saved me on more than one occasion. one is always in a bank safe deposit box. all encrypted of course. heh this wallet was so old it was before encryption was in core. |
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April 24, 2016, 02:59:18 PM |
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its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion price around aug 2011 was around $10. hmm even if i bought some random currency online for fifty bucks. im definitely sure I'd remember it lol. Although i remember finding a really small amount amount of bitcoins in a wallet that i stored on my old USB drive. have no clue when i got those. I probably just figured Id transfer it out again to my main wallet, just never got around to it. back then when it was new to me I was testing things to see how it worked. this wallet originally was on an old laptop I ran ubuntu on. |
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April 24, 2016, 03:10:42 PM |
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I did found a wallet which I thought I had used and was empty but it didn't had that much BTC as yours did, not even close to that but it was like finding money in your pocket and it felt great. Most people would already delete/lost his/her wallet file, i heard a guys throw away harddisk with thousands bitcoin inside it  I wiped a disk partition once accidentally, which contained some altcoin wallets but never throw away any wallets, what if tomorrow a new coin like clams comes along with a blockchain based giveaway? |
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April 24, 2016, 03:19:57 PM |
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I was able to find a wallet I used to use from late 2011 up to mid 2012 and have some funds in it but unfortunately I didn't made a back up or just simply copying everything saved in a notepad since everything used to be saved on my browser in the past and since I installed new windows over the one I used to had (I change windows twice yearly since I play around a lot and always mess something), so as result I don't have the chain words that would help me recover needed information, in order for me to log in (a bit of regret although not that much of a big deal since it's less than a BTCitcoin).
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April 24, 2016, 03:29:13 PM |
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so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu" well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah.. rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else. its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion price around aug 2011 was around $10. so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing wow, you da real hodler man! that has to be a nice feeling when you find some coins that you had no idea existed in the first place. especially if they are worth a lot when you find them. i don't think i will ever experience this feeling because i keep all my wallets under close observation and even if i have used them a long time ago the addresses are imported in blockchain.info as watch only to inform me about their balances |
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April 24, 2016, 03:47:46 PM |
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[...]even if i have used them a long time ago the addresses are imported in blockchain.info as watch only to inform me about their balances thats a good idea for sure. Im still running the same wallet from 2011 on my daily driver PC. made some others on various offline machines just to move them out of the main wallet around when wallets were not encrypted. now most btc are in paper wallets but slowly moving some to the trenzor. |
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April 24, 2016, 04:04:48 PM |
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so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu" well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah.. rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else. its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion price around aug 2011 was around $10. so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing Well 5.0 is a lot of BTC and a lot of people are dreaming to even own 1.0 BTC so congratulations on this one. Personally I have never found a wallet lying around because I always make sure that I know where the current wallet is, and I always pack the wallets together when doing backups and put them in different places but I always remember where the wallets are, so no chance for me to find some forgotten wallets. |
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April 24, 2016, 04:06:55 PM |
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And I am totally new to the world of bitcoin, my bitcoin wallet is about a few months older, I have created it on this year 2016 and the first transaction to it was from faucetbox.
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April 24, 2016, 05:04:06 PM |
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How I wish I heard about bitcoin in 2011! I only started in 2014 and was using Coinbase. Only recently installed the BitcoinCore but it is really resource consuming so I decided not to continue.
Hope more people can find their old wallets so that those coins will not be lost forever!
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April 24, 2016, 05:10:56 PM |
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Very cool that you found that old wallet. Some of the stories about wallets from 2011-2013 are crazy, thousands lost/thousands found. I have not been in long enough to have an "old wallet"  |
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April 24, 2016, 05:15:51 PM |
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Personally I have never found a wallet lying around because I always make sure that I know where the current wallet is, and I always pack the wallets together when doing backups and put them in different places but I always remember where the wallets are, so no chance for me to find some forgotten wallets.
my backup plan is more organized now. FreeNAS rig in the basement with ZFS Z1 (like RAID 5). but back then it was "copy anything important everywhere you can" type of thing. now after this as i find old wallets Im putting them in one place to check them out. most are copies of the main wallet but namecoin and litecoin wallets are there too. |
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April 24, 2016, 05:17:18 PM |
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How I wish I heard about bitcoin in 2011! I only started in 2014 and was using Coinbase. Only recently installed the BitcoinCore but it is really resource consuming so I decided not to continue.
Hope more people can find their old wallets so that those coins will not be lost forever!
Well it is unfortunate that you can't run Bitcoin Core in your computer, but I recommend that you at least download Electrum because it is infinite times better than holding your coins in Coinbase or any exchange whatsoever. So everyone should learn how to use Electrum at least, but if you want the real deal you gotta have the blockchain in your hard drive, at least pruned mode if your hard drive is small. |
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April 24, 2016, 05:17:34 PM |
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And I am totally new to the world of bitcoin, my bitcoin wallet is about a few months older, I have created it on this year 2016 and the first transaction to it was from faucetbox.
yeah thats why I looked back over my transaction list, to see what the 1st transaction was. it was from Slushs pool mined on an HD4850 |
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April 24, 2016, 05:31:28 PM |
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And I am totally new to the world of bitcoin, my bitcoin wallet is about a few months older, I have created it on this year 2016 and the first transaction to it was from faucetbox.
yeah thats why I looked back over my transaction list, to see what the 1st transaction was. it was from Slushs pool mined on an HD4850 Woow it's really cool, seems like cloud mining was profitable, you are so lucky,first you are the early adopter and just found 5 bitcoin on your old wallet, such a great story. Anyway the only thing that i just wondering is how much bitcoin that faucet site give to the peoples? it must be high rewards, isn't it? |
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April 24, 2016, 05:52:38 PM |
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yeah thats why I looked back over my transaction list, to see what the 1st transaction was. it was from Slushs pool mined on an HD4850 Woow it's really cool, seems like cloud mining was profitable, you are so lucky,first you are the early adopter and just found 5 bitcoin on your old wallet, such a great story. Anyway the only thing that i just wondering is how much bitcoin that faucet site give to the peoples? it must be high rewards, isn't it? no, slush is a pool. it still exists. when I 1st did bitcoin Slushs pool had clearer instructions on setting up GPUs and the bitcoin wallet than anywhere else. so Slush was the 1st place I mined. the HD4850 I mined with was low powered at that point but since I had it I used it to prove bitcoin worked. once I sold the coin, converted it to USD and transferred it to my bank account, I then grabbed some modern cards (modern at that point was the HD6xxx series). used mtgox and dwolla to convert to fiat. luckily I saw the red flags at mtgox and split. |
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April 24, 2016, 06:11:07 PM |
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so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu" well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah.. rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else. its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion price around aug 2011 was around $10. so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing That's pretty cool to be honest, I'm quite paranoid & overly protective of my bitcoin's so I know how many there are in every source of cold storage & local storage method. I imagine that as a very early adopter somebody could forget about lots of coins though in an address or two when the price was low. You should be pretty happy though  Enjoy the money you forgot you had. |
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April 24, 2016, 07:04:29 PM |
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so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu" well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah.. rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else. its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion price around aug 2011 was around $10. so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing That is one fun story  lucky you |
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