Is it possible to recover satoshis from a 10 plus year old account on CGMINER?

[PHAS]

Hello everyone,

I mined some satoshis more than 10 years ago, and just now I found the HD with the corresponding cgminer folder. I never messed with bitcoins again, and I don't even remember what the process was like. Is there still a possibility to recover these satoshis?

If so, some instruction would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. The software version at that time was 3.7.2 for Windows.

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[philipma1957]

Hello everyone,

I mined some satoshis more than 10 years ago, and just now I found the HD with the corresponding cgminer folder. I never messed with bitcoins again, and I don't even remember what the process was like. Is there still a possibility to recover these satoshis?

If so, some instruction would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. The software version at that time was 3.7.2 for Windows.

recovering coins usually involves wallets and wallet.dat files

the cgminer folder could contain a pool name that you used but it is very unlikely the pool held your coins for 10 years.

good luck.

[BitMaxz]

Do you still remember on what pool do you mine on that time?
Or if you are using a pool that directly send your mine coins to your BTC wallet then you must find the wallet and focus on that thing because cgminer is just a software for mining it doesn't contain any coins.

Try to look for Electrum or Bitcoin-qt you can use everything search tool or your laptop/pc built-in search to find these wallets.

[mikeywith]

Cgiminer folder isn't going to help you recover your lost coins, you are going to need the wallet files, try to find the wallet.dat on all drivers, search for

Code:

*.dat

in C, D or whatever drives/partitions you have on that PC, assuming you don't recall using a different PC for the wallet, it should be there somewhere on your PC.

Also, don't respond to any PMs, especially by newbie accounts trying to help you out, they are most likely trying to steal your coins.

[Flexystar]

Cgiminer folder isn't going to help you recover your lost coins, you are going to need the wallet files, try to find the wallet.dat on all drivers, search for

Code:

*.dat

in C, D or whatever drives/partitions you have on that PC, assuming you don't recall using a different PC for the wallet, it should be there somewhere on your PC.

Also, don't respond to any PMs, especially by newbie accounts trying to help you out, they are most likely trying to steal your coins.

Interesting know that there are some ways to get back the lost bitcoins. I assume this is only possible when you have that particular PC on which the mining happened and *.dat file is stored? If yes, then it means that particular PC and dat file has got coded connection which may not work on the other PC if downloaded or transferred. If no, then why is that so and through current advances why is it still that much hard to do it.

OR is it possible to get the bitcoins back even if you have *.dat file from some other device but now want to get back the bitcoins from it. How this file works and what is the information that is stored in it which makes it so helpful while recovering the bitcoins?

[mikeywith]

Interesting know that there are some ways to get back the lost bitcoins. I assume this is only possible when you have that particular PC on which the mining happened and *.dat file is stored? If yes, then it means that particular PC and dat file has got coded connection which may not work on the other PC if downloaded or transferred. If no, then why is that so and through current advances why is it still that much hard to do it.

OR is it possible to get the bitcoins back even if you have *.dat file from some other device but now want to get back the bitcoins from it. How this file works and what is the information that is stored in it which makes it so helpful while recovering the bitcoins?

The PC or miner software isn't connected to the wallet, if you have the wallet files you can use it on any operating system that it supports, of course, most often that file will be encrypted and you will need a password to decrypt it so you can access the coins, but finding that wallet file is the first step to any "hope", if you have it, you have a good chance of remembering or even brute-forcing your way in, if you don't have it, your chances of meeting your coins again are 0.

[Flexystar]

Interesting know that there are some ways to get back the lost bitcoins. I assume this is only possible when you have that particular PC on which the mining happened and *.dat file is stored? If yes, then it means that particular PC and dat file has got coded connection which may not work on the other PC if downloaded or transferred. If no, then why is that so and through current advances why is it still that much hard to do it.

OR is it possible to get the bitcoins back even if you have *.dat file from some other device but now want to get back the bitcoins from it. How this file works and what is the information that is stored in it which makes it so helpful while recovering the bitcoins?

The PC or miner software isn't connected to the wallet, if you have the wallet files you can use it on any operating system that it supports, of course, most often that file will be encrypted and you will need a password to decrypt it so you can access the coins, but finding that wallet file is the first step to any "hope", if you have it, you have a good chance of remembering or even brute-forcing your way in, if you don't have it, your chances of meeting your coins again are 0.

Eh, my trust on the paper wallets followed by multiple new generated address is rising day by day as I learn the complications in storing your data on any device or keeping the coins on hardware's. @OP, your story is now getting similar to the UK guy who appealed in the court for digging out his old computer hard drive which is now buried under hundreds and thousand ton of waste in the wasteland. Because if you are not going to have the access to those file or data then it is already proven its useless to run behind that.

It is really dangerous to have the data on anything that is electronic. It can get fried, corrupted, or lost anytime without prior notice. Imagine working on computer peacefully and suddenly there is high electricity voltage frying the HDD and losing that .dat* file with it. There goes the bitcoin.

I think one should mine the bitcoins ----> transfer to paper wallet --> Lock it away.  The best course of action so far.

[kano]

Eh, my trust on the paper wallets followed by multiple new generated address is rising day by day as I learn the complications in storing your data on any device or keeping the coins on hardware's. @OP, your story is now getting similar to the UK guy who appealed in the court for digging out his old computer hard drive which is now buried under hundreds and thousand ton of waste in the wasteland. Because if you are not going to have the access to those file or data then it is already proven its useless to run behind that.

It is really dangerous to have the data on anything that is electronic. It can get fried, corrupted, or lost anytime without prior notice. Imagine working on computer peacefully and suddenly there is high electricity voltage frying the HDD and losing that .dat* file with it. There goes the bitcoin.

I think one should mine the bitcoins ----> transfer to paper wallet --> Lock it away.  The best course of action so far.

Or you could learn about automatic, reliable and safe backups, and raid data storage ...

Anyway, that idiot in the UK dug up his computer and apparently it was only BitCH coin so worth nothing like what he paid to dig it up - lol
... which also doesn't really make a lot sense, since the BitCH keys=the BTC keys ... so he must have thrown it away after BitCH was created.

[mikeywith]

Anyway, that idiot in the UK dug up his computer and apparently it was only BitCH coin so worth nothing like what he paid to dig it up - lol

If you both are talking about James Howells who allegedly lost 8,000 BTC in a hard drive he threw away, I found no reliable source saying he found the hard drive

As for this

... which also doesn't really make a lot sense, since the BitCH keys=the BTC keys ... so he must have thrown it away after BitCH was created.

Not sure why you assume it was "after", if he had any BTC the belongs to the PKs he owns, he would have gotten the same amount in all the forks, so if he threw it when it had BTC in it before the fork date then it would have both BTC and the other forks, if the BTC was funded after the fork, he would found only BTC, the only way he would only find forked coins and not BTC is if he funded the wallet after the fork, and lost it after the fork, which doesn't make sense at all.

We could be talking about different folks here, but James Howells claims he lost his hard drive back in 2013, which means if he found it recently, it would have 8k of BTC and every other fork.

[kano]

Anyway, that idiot in the UK dug up his computer and apparently it was only BitCH coin so worth nothing like what he paid to dig it up - lol

If you both are talking about James Howells who allegedly lost 8,000 BTC in a hard drive he threw away, I found no reliable source saying he found the hard drive

Just a twit(ter) post someone made claiming someone found lost crypto at a dump.
No idea who it was nor the name "James Howells" until you dug it up and posted it

As for this

... which also doesn't really make a lot sense, since the BitCH keys=the BTC keys ... so he must have thrown it away after BitCH was created.

Not sure why you assume it was "after", if he had any BTC the belongs to the PKs he owns, he would have gotten the same amount in all the forks, so if he threw it when it had BTC in it before the fork date then it would have both BTC and the other forks, if the BTC was funded after the fork, he would found only BTC, the only way he would only find forked coins and not BTC is if he funded the wallet after the fork, and lost it after the fork, which doesn't make sense at all.

We could be talking about different folks here, but James Howells claims he lost his hard drive back in 2013, which means if he found it recently, it would have 8k of BTC and every other fork.

As I said,

apparently it was only BitCH coin

(according to the twit post) so my comment would be correct in that case.
i.e.

he must have thrown it away after BitCH was created.

The twit post being incorrect may well be the case, but what I stated was: apparently.