With recovering the funds. Read the thread, there are people actually volunteering to help.
As to keeping huge amounts in a single wallet, if it was created back in 2010 it's possible because 8k BTC was peanuts back then and there was no reason to split or somehow protect it additionally.
There never was 8k BTC at stake here. The OP never had the corresponding wallet.dat. He bought it from somewhere. It came with the backstory he presented. If
you'd have read the thread you'd have known it wasn't actually his wallet but belonged to an old miner who had a separate
account on this forum. OP was oblivious to all this.
This story is such a bs attempt to grasp attention.
Nothing OP tells us here is summing up.
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Now OP waits until 2021 to tell the world that he lost access to his wallet in NOV 2010 and comes up 11 Years later to the most visited Bitcoin forum on the internet?
OP found out about bitcointalk.org just now, even though he knew Bitcoin in 2009?
You might want to ask this guy
https://twitter.com/gkelly - who probably is the real owner of the wallet in question. I doubt he wants to talk about his wallet too much, but hey, its the interwebs, ask him.