Recovering Lost BTC Guild Wallet from 2013 Mining-User ID 97249, Help Eleuthrial

[haihong8787]

Hello BitcoinTalk community,

I'm trying to recover an old Bitcoin wallet from my mining days in 2013-2014 with BTC Guild. I mined using a graphics card and received payouts to this address: 15BMx8UbMK1dmb2eDXcjMJAXLhrMmKeSFa (public, balance ~0.05 BTC as per Blockchair).

Key details:
- Mining period: 2013-2014
- Pool: BTC Guild (user ID: 97249)
- Wallet change confirmation email: I have an old email with wallet_auth_code starting with 8bd0****e0be2e7f84*** (blurred for safety)
- Main transaction: TXID a87323bed0cbb68cc6c054a3aced817fc99c0cbe5a7ef6c169a4429377f2eb45 (from May 2013, payout of 0.05025438 BTC)
- Software: Likely Bitcoin Core or Electrum, but lost wallet.dat and no seed phrase recalled.

I've searched old computers, emails, and backups but can't find the private key. BTC Guild closed in 2015, but I hope Eleuthria or someone with old records can help verify or advise.

Attachments: Blockchair statement PDF (showing balance and TX history).

Questions:
1. Does anyone have contact with Eleuthria? Can he check old user data for payouts?
2. Recommendations for recovery tools (e.g., BTCRecover for password)?
3. Any similar success stories from BTC Guild miners?

Please no PMs offering "hacking services" - I'm aware of scams. Thanks for any help!

Best,
[hai hong]

[philipma1957]

It is gone.

They gave many notices and your time is past to withdraw it.

[nc50lc]

Key details:
- Software: Likely Bitcoin Core or Electrum, but lost wallet.dat and no seed phrase recalled.

I've searched old computers, emails, and backups but can't find the private key.
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2. Recommendations for recovery tools (e.g., BTCRecover for password)?

Recovery tools will not work without the encrypted wallet.dat file or in case of old Electrum, electrum.dat file or a significant part of your seed phrase.
Those mentioned wallets do not store those data on a server, it should be recovered from the machine where those are originally saved.

You can try your luck with a reputable "File Recovery Software" on your old computer's hard drive
but do not install it to those drives itself, use a dedicated machine with it own system drive and just mount the old drives. (clone the disk if you see fit)

1. Does anyone have contact with Eleuthria? Can he check old user data for payouts?

If you're looking for his account, here's the link: /index.php?action=profile;u=9119 (offline since 2018)

[tannenbaumstir]

1. Does anyone have contact with Eleuthria? Can he check old user data for payouts?
2. Recommendations for recovery tools (e.g., BTCRecover for password)?
3. Any similar success stories from BTC Guild miners?

Please no PMs offering "hacking services" - I'm aware of scams. Thanks for any help!

Best,
[hai hong]

1) Your post states you had a wallet on your account and even confirmed the transaction ID showing your funds were moved from the pool to your wallet.  The pool owner can't help you at that point, you literally took your coins out of the pool's control and put them into your own wallet.

2) You need your wallet.dat file, or the equivalent for whatever software you used.  Or you need the seed phrase if your wallet was generated with one.  Without those, you can't recover anything.