Found seed phases for electrum and trying to find my mineing pool 2009-2011 era

[Foxxs Den]

Hello, I'm trying to get help recovering my wallets from the 2009-2011 era. I do have seed phrases, 24-word and 12-word ones, and I carved out a BTC bulk with photo rec. I'm trying to figure out which words to use, since I know it was carved out, so some of the words will be mixed together. They are Electrum seeds that I found as well. I did find WIFs that had addresses but no coins or transactions. This was when I was mining and collecting from caches from 2009-2011 as well. I do recall making a mining pool that should be untouched from 2011, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I do have the FBI and CIA involved in all this as well, so I'm trying to find what I can to add to evidence as well as get my funds back. Thank you for any help.

[rat03gopoh]

Found seed phases for electrum and trying to find my mineing pool 2009-2011 era

I just read the title and concluded that the rest of the story doesn't make sense. I mean, the phrases seed, electrum, pool 2009-2011... that's historically messed up.
Just say, did you buy old wallet files from someone else? Most do, and the buyers fail to recount the actual story or what you actually bought wasn't wallet files.

[Foxxs Den]

Well, these were my own hard drives in cold storage since 2009 2011, 6 of them in total. 5 were recoverable, and one of the hard drive that had the mining pool on it, along with a lot of Bitcoin and wallets  failed due to mining at that time and putting to much strain on the computer and caused it to fail. 2011 was when it failed. I was part of several mining pools as well as had my own that i made. I've opened a total of 350 wallets over the past 2 days as well, using some of the seed phrases, so now I'm trying to figure out what configurations to use in the wallet recovery option with Electrum to retrieve those wallets because there are custom words in them that I put in there for if this issue arises. It's just been so long ago for me to remember everything. I know there are trails of everything from these hard drives. I've been going through them with the recovery program. I just need help matching things up. I've come across addresses, WIFs, wallets, multiple different wallet types. I got some from Armory as well, and web wallets and Bitcoin Core fragments of these wallets, so it's been something trying to recover everything.

[Foxxs Den]

as well i was here from the start one of the first 50 that started mineing   

[nc50lc]

-snip- using some of the seed phrases, so now I'm trying to figure out what configurations to use in the wallet recovery option with Electrum to retrieve those wallets because there are custom words in them that I put in there for if this issue arises.

This is what the first reply meant that it doesn't make sense: wallets don't use seed phrase back in 2009~2011 (and Electrum was experimental in December 2011).
Additionally, even if you've used old Electrum past December 2011, its old type seed phrase isn't capable of adding "custom words"; '13th word', 'seed phrase extension' or 'passphrase'.
And if it's from the very first experimental versions of Electrum, its backup was not even a mnemonic.

Let's disregard the date, if you truly think that the 12 words that you have is from Electrum (electrum.org):
Simply restore it via "Standard->I already have a seed" new wallet option.
Even the latest version of Electrum will recognize an old Electrum 12-word seed as "Seed Type: old" below the text field.
Ticking "Extend this seed with custom words" in the option wont trigger the custom words text field if the seed phrase is detected as old electrum seed.
If it's indeed detected as old seed, you're on the right track.

BTW, I saw your other thread.
Self-custodial wallets like Bitcoin Core, Electrum, and usually those that have a seed phrase don't store your funds in a server nor owned by their developers.
The private keys are in your device and/or backed up by the seed phase so the best help that you can get from them or others are just as good as getting instructions on how to do it yourself.

Lastly, please don't PM me regarding this.

[LoyceV]

I just read the title and concluded that the rest of the story doesn't make sense.

Based on OP's post history filled with long unclear stories, he's on a wild goose chase and wasting everyone's time. If you'd seriously be looking for millions, you'd start with a clear story.

I carved out a BTC bulk with photo rec.

Right.

I do have the FBI and CIA involved in all this as well

Sure!

[Foxxs Den]

-snip- using some of the seed phrases, so now I'm trying to figure out what configurations to use in the wallet recovery option with Electrum to retrieve those wallets because there are custom words in them that I put in there for if this issue arises.

This is what the first reply meant that it doesn't make sense: wallets don't use seed phrase back in 2009~2011 (and Electrum was experimental in December 2011).
Additionally, even if you've used old Electrum past December 2011, its old type seed phrase isn't capable of adding "custom words"; '13th word', 'seed phrase extension' or 'passphrase'.
And if it's from the very first experimental versions of Electrum, its backup was not even a mnemonic.

Let's disregard the date, if you truly think that the 12 words that you have is from Electrum (electrum.org):
Simply restore it via "Standard->I already have a seed" new wallet option.
Even the latest version of Electrum will recognize an old Electrum 12-word seed as "Seed Type: old" below the text field.
Ticking "Extend this seed with custom words" in the option wont trigger the custom words text field if the seed phrase is detected as old electrum seed.
If it's indeed detected as old seed, you're on the right track.

BTW, I saw your other thread.
Self-custodial wallets like Bitcoin Core, Electrum, and usually those that have a seed phrase don't store your funds in a server nor owned by their developers.
The private keys are in your device and/or backed up by the seed phase so the best help that you can get from them or others are just as good as getting instructions on how to do it yourself.

Lastly, please don't PM me regarding this.

Thank you for the response. You brought up something I didn't think of in the seed recovery part of the wallets with the seed, and I will try it out.

[Foxxs Den]

I just read the title and concluded that the rest of the story doesn't make sense.[/quote]
Based on OP's post history filled with long unclear stories, he's on a wild goose chase and wasting everyone's time. If you'd seriously be looking for millions, you'd start with a clear story.

I carved out a BTC bulk with photo rec.

Right.

I do have the FBI and CIA involved in all this as well

Sure!
[/quote]

I'm not a wild goose chase. Have a little more respect for me. I am part of the founders, like 47th miner. I've just been away, waiting for laws surrounding Bitcoin. When Trump signed the crypto bill allowing all Bitcoin to be tracked, I pulled them out of cold storage.

Yes, on the images, I ran SIFT in a VM and used Autopsy, BTC Bulk (I think it was), and PhotoRec to retrieve the Bitcoin information.

And yes, I involved the FBI and CIA because funds were not where they should have been. On a WIF lookup for an armorey account that had one Bitcoin in the watching, it was gone as well, along with more from another wallet. Plus, one of my hard drives, which I was not able to get an image of, had more mining information on it, including the pool I made, more wallets, and Bitcoin. They will be able to pull network logs with IP addresses they have. I was apart of the research project they did in California back in 2010 and 2011 as well.

[ABCbits]

Hello, I'm trying to get help recovering my wallets from the 2009-2011 era. I do have seed phrases, 24-word and 12-word ones, and I carved out a BTC bulk with photo rec.

They are Electrum seeds that I found as well. I did find WIFs that had addresses but no coins or transactions.

I believe my past reply relevant with your question.

IMO it's very unlikely Electrum already exist since end of 2008,
1. It's earlier Git commit happened on Nov 4, 2011 (https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/6db1a31e58ee15c448448139e7d3a9e72b14268f)
2. First post (on this forum) which mentioned Electrum was posted on June 12, 2011, 09:50:17 PM (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16017.0)

I managed to run Electrum 0.3 on Debian 10, so i'll write what i did.
--snip--

So it can't be during 2009-2010 and it can't be 24 words. But you can see my full reply, so you could check whether you'll get different address/private key with old version of Electrum.