Recently recovered an old zero balance wallet belonging to myself.

[BitcoinFX]

Just recovered an old zero balance wallet belonging to myself... if anyone is interested ?

Re: I am the poorest early adopter in the world...

EDIT:

Thanks all.

Located my 500 BTC donation to Gavin's original faucet from this wallet.

Status: 267444 confirmations
Date: 04/08/2010 18:27
To: 15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC
Debit: -500.00 BTC
Net amount: -500.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 92435cc4da7808976aa6d3d9c8fb02e7fe23a48b9f9c73145ef738b0d8d977e2-000

- https://blockchain.info/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC

Crazy days !   

You win some, you lose some and that's just the way it goes ... !?!?

~ Inspired by this thread and some recent events I randomly decided to try and fire up an old dell inspiron laptop I used in early 2010 which suffered a battery, screen and HD failure in the space of a month or so.

After eventually managing to boot it up and having 30 so attempts to remember an old windows xp password (without success) I then resorted to using an ubuntu live cd to try and access my old data...

Success. So, I open the search prompt and enter 'wallet.dat' with the vague recollection that I might of made a backup of a backup from another PC (since lost) to this laptops HD...

~ Finds a wallet.dat - last access 31/01/11 - 19:57 - Size (unencrypted): 336 KB  

So, I immediately copy the file to a USB flash drive and load it up in a new Bitcoin core instance.

Rescanning... 1% ... 99% ... (I'm feeling many mixed emotions obviously) I'm thinking maybe I left 0.55 BTC or was it 25 BTC or even 500 BTC !?!? ...

Great! 0 balance.  

1st transaction - probably sent to myself from another of my own mining wallets...

Status: 277163 confirmations
Date: 15/02/2010 15:20
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 13.37 BTC
Net amount: +13.37 BTC
Transaction ID: b3aa001dec9bccfe02c5c018034d569bf0cf7012a840238a759071f525cf6b79-000

The wallet.dat also contains 66 solo mined 50 BTC block transactions ...

Status: 278034 confirmations
Date: 15/02/2010 15:44
Source: Generated
Credit: 50.00 BTC
Net amount: +50.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 9b70e62d9ce6ea0d63d1cb5067c62934616ad390ec778eee146f1d36016ac94b-000

onwards to:

Status: 253403 confirmations
Date: 09/07/2010 16:23
Source: Generated
Credit: 50.00 BTC
Net amount: +50.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 7dd20e43bb44f147da8a735e908a35f23ec4df2e650a3a2c2c55272accc6dd53-000

I even sent the test transaction back to myself !?! (I think) - LOL

Status: 277873 confirmations
Date: 16/02/2010 19:22
To: 189iAhvyheVzWqtL9E8hdfdpyQ2AEprXmm
Debit: -13.37 BTC
Net amount: -13.37 BTC
Transaction ID: 84163a9688ce9694387a9257165c14a41cfe446ddab99462c93c639163313a8c-000

"mere bagatelle" ...

Status: 261135 confirmations
Date: 26/05/2010 16:45
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 2500.00 BTC
Net amount: +2500.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 33009032b3d69a2a29f8bdbbfa6848616989058d057bf60f075b6f8ca4fc1fda-000

...

Status: 258814 confirmations
Date: 10/06/2010 05:21
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 2500.00 BTC
Net amount: +2500.00 BTC
Transaction ID: ff6f0f6810d5683b52059470a9b5b4a67d7c78e5f240da5542167e9c1d3eaab3-000

...

Status: 258034 confirmations
Date: 15/06/2010 02:50
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 2500.00 BTC
Net amount: +2500.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 50114d74e9acab3908c01575cbb9f6661df92edec1f3ccf6362895dba7e64b7b-000

...

Status: 257188 confirmations
Date: 20/06/2010 13:33
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 3125.00 BTC
Net amount: +3125.00 BTC
Transaction ID: c7c11418eae5b5c4d904cab77b80cff680c0b7ba4e387a00f91f311bd8945538-000

...

Status: 256626 confirmations
Date: 23/06/2010 21:04
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 3125.00 BTC
Net amount: +3125.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 42bd3ac3e78bdaf69c4c020a695cec9fcfc3f9777be531f2fa0aeb23d884db4c-000

...

Status: 250220 confirmations
Date: 18/07/2010 00:51
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 5503.40 BTC
Net amount: +5503.40 BTC
Transaction ID: 6d245d6b2657399ea700e5010d10da34974299dc59b89a5e506a51a929ca9ffd-000

Just a few examples (from the same wallet) ... that all correspond with outgoing transactions. Some back to my own wallet(s) and some going elsewhere.  

...

So, as of today, I currently have about £5 UK pounds in my main UK bank account (following the holiday season) ... "Re: I am the poorest early adopter in the world"...

~ Maybe I can auction this 0 balance wallet on ebay ? or elsewhere ? It is a piece of Bitcoin history after all (probably not though I guess).

  

[coinits]

Just recovered an old zero balance wallet belonging to myself... if anyone is interested ?

Re: I am the poorest early adopter in the world...

You win some, you lose some and that's just the way it goes ... !?!?

~ Inspired by this thread and some recent events I randomly decided to try and fire up an old dell inspiron laptop I used in early 2010 which suffered a battery, screen and HD failure in the space of a month or so.

After eventually managing to boot it up and having 30 so attempts to remember an old windows xp password (without success) I then resorted to using an ubuntu live cd to try and access my old data...

Success. So, I open the search prompt and enter 'wallet.dat' with the vague recollection that I might of made a backup of a backup from another PC (since lost) to this laptops HD...

~ Finds a wallet.dat - last access 31/01/11 - 19:57 - Size (unencrypted): 336 KB   

So, I immediately copy the file to a USB flash drive and load it up in a new Bitcoin core instance.

Rescanning... 1% ... 99% ... (I'm feeling many mixed emotions obviously) I'm thinking maybe I left 0.55 BTC or was it 25 BTC or even 500 BTC !?!? ...

Great! 0 balance.   

1st transaction - probably sent to myself from another of my own mining wallets...

Status: 277163 confirmations
Date: 15/02/2010 15:20
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 13.37 BTC
Net amount: +13.37 BTC
Transaction ID: b3aa001dec9bccfe02c5c018034d569bf0cf7012a840238a759071f525cf6b79-000

The wallet.dat also contains 66 solo mined 50 BTC block transactions ...

Status: 278034 confirmations
Date: 15/02/2010 15:44
Source: Generated
Credit: 50.00 BTC
Net amount: +50.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 9b70e62d9ce6ea0d63d1cb5067c62934616ad390ec778eee146f1d36016ac94b-000

onwards to:

Status: 253403 confirmations
Date: 09/07/2010 16:23
Source: Generated
Credit: 50.00 BTC
Net amount: +50.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 7dd20e43bb44f147da8a735e908a35f23ec4df2e650a3a2c2c55272accc6dd53-000

I even sent the test transaction back to myself !?! (I think) - LOL

Status: 277873 confirmations
Date: 16/02/2010 19:22
To: 189iAhvyheVzWqtL9E8hdfdpyQ2AEprXmm
Debit: -13.37 BTC
Net amount: -13.37 BTC
Transaction ID: 84163a9688ce9694387a9257165c14a41cfe446ddab99462c93c639163313a8c-000

"mere bagatelle" ...

Status: 261135 confirmations
Date: 26/05/2010 16:45
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 2500.00 BTC
Net amount: +2500.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 33009032b3d69a2a29f8bdbbfa6848616989058d057bf60f075b6f8ca4fc1fda-000

...

Status: 258814 confirmations
Date: 10/06/2010 05:21
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 2500.00 BTC
Net amount: +2500.00 BTC
Transaction ID: ff6f0f6810d5683b52059470a9b5b4a67d7c78e5f240da5542167e9c1d3eaab3-000

...

Status: 258034 confirmations
Date: 15/06/2010 02:50
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 2500.00 BTC
Net amount: +2500.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 50114d74e9acab3908c01575cbb9f6661df92edec1f3ccf6362895dba7e64b7b-000

...

Status: 257188 confirmations
Date: 20/06/2010 13:33
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 3125.00 BTC
Net amount: +3125.00 BTC
Transaction ID: c7c11418eae5b5c4d904cab77b80cff680c0b7ba4e387a00f91f311bd8945538-000

...

Status: 256626 confirmations
Date: 23/06/2010 21:04
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 3125.00 BTC
Net amount: +3125.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 42bd3ac3e78bdaf69c4c020a695cec9fcfc3f9777be531f2fa0aeb23d884db4c-000

...

Status: 250220 confirmations
Date: 18/07/2010 00:51
From: unknown
To: 1JXFXUBGs2ZtEDAQMdZ3tkCKo38nT2XSEp (own address, label: Your Address)
Credit: 5503.40 BTC
Net amount: +5503.40 BTC
Transaction ID: 6d245d6b2657399ea700e5010d10da34974299dc59b89a5e506a51a929ca9ffd-000

Just a few examples (from the same wallet) ... that all correspond with outgoing transactions. Some back to my own wallet(s) and some going elsewhere.   

...

So, as of today, I currently have about £5 UK pounds in my main UK bank account (following the holiday season) ... "Re: I am the poorest early adopter in the world"...

~ Maybe I can auction this 0 balance wallet on ebay ? or elsewhere ? It is a piece of Bitcoin history after all (probably not though I guess).

   

OUCH!

[BitcoinFX]

OUCH!

Indeed. Puts a 10,000 BTC pizza into perspective though, right ? 

- Nobody expects the revolution - do let me know when it re-starts.

 

[coinits]

OUCH!

Indeed. Puts a 10,000 BTC pizza into perspective though, right ? 

- Nobody expects the revolution - do let me know when it re-starts.

 

On the upside the price has been going down and if there is another dump coming from the Bitstamp fiasco then you may see it re-start.

[flipstyle]

!!!! Wow, sometimes it's better not to remember, right? lol

If it makes you feel any better, I think there were very few that got in as early as you did that had the guts/courage to hold all the way up to the ATH.  Win some, lose some.

[TrailingComet]

Amen to that, sometimes it really is better not to recall the past

[AgentofCoin]

A sad tale indeed.. 

[BitcoinFX]

!!!! Wow, sometimes it's better not to remember, right? lol

If it makes you feel any better, I think there were very few that got in as early as you did that had the guts/courage to hold all the way up to the ATH.  Win some, lose some.

Thanks.

The above is just a sample of the old wallets transactions (longtime 0 balance ofc). I had another 2 (sometimes 3 PC's) CPU mining to individual Bitcoin wallet's quite sometime before the first transactions to this wallet.

I also briefly ran the first and what is/was considered a hobbyist exchange service for BTC <> LR. Although, realize that I'm referring to around less than $100 in total for about 5 or 6 individual transactions, before I decided to close the service because it simply wasn't worth my time running it !

Here are the first BTC exchange rates (calculated against electricity usage in producing BTC) - http://newlibertystandard.wikifoundry.com/page/2009+Exchange+Rate  (not my website).

I remember that NewLibertyStandard had some charge back issues with customers using PayPal. So, we separately sought to use individual 3rd party exchange services that didn't do charge backs such as Liberty Reserve (now defunct) and Pecunix.

Almost all of my original BTC was sold (by myself) on another early automated exchange (as personal funds) which I transferred mostly into various Forex trading brokers through LR. I chose to do this as I had decided I would probably make more money trading financial markets before any significant price rise in BTC. At that time I could still CPU mine more BTC although that quickly changed and I was priced out of the mining game well before BTC reached over $1 - Ironically, it didn't seem worthwhile investing in new GPU mining equipment for myself at that time, plus regretfully a few personal reasons meant I didn't really have the time for it.

Fast forward a few years and when my Forex trading had started to become less profitable ( although I had very good success trading gold against USD and some other pairs ) I decided that I would move funds back into BTC when it was at around the $100 to $250 mark, as I was fairly certain that we would start to see a big run up with BTC hitting the main stream news.

LR was increasingly reported to be shady and mostly criminal in its wider exchange activities. However, it was also used by many honest citizens for legitimate deposits to Forex Trading accounts and for general internet payments. I personally never used LR for any 'illegal' or malicious activities whatsoever and mostly for personal funds and to pay hosting bills etc. Personally I never had an issue with it until it got shutdown.

Unfortunately (yet again), I started making transfers at exactly the time that LR got taken offline (as well as some other exchanges running of with my hard earned capital) and so I 'lost' over 3 years worth of trading profits and missed the BTC price increase from $250 to $1200 - which again would of given me a nice income and some surplus BTC to perhaps start some good projects. Unbelievable, right !?

...

Anyway, the above even more strongly reaffirms my belief in decentralized money and ownership of money by the individual and not by government, banks or any form of centralized issuing institutions. Satoshi was always way ahead with all of this.

The very early adopters, such as myself, had to find ways to determine and create value in Bitcoin as well as to increase the user base. We believed in the technology (still do ofc) and wanted to promote it. TBH I perhaps became somewhat disillusioned before it really started to take off as against my calculations it just seemed to be taking to long. I'm just unlucky perhaps.

Finding this wallet through is giving me a very interesting incite into early transactions and as to who mined what on the blockchain.

[BitCoinNutJob]

Thats pretty sick numbers, if only you'd stashed away even 1k BTC 

[SimplisticStu]

Erm......wow.....what a story, just imagine if you had lost interest and left a few thousand BTC in your wallets and then came across them at the height, boy would you have been happy  I guess you don't need reminding, I hope that slice of pizza was good 

[Bizmark13]

I see you read my thread.

Yeah, I was an early adopter too just like you, although I came a bit later in the game and was less involved with the scene. Many people assume that all early adopters are all insanely rich but that's only true if you were an extremely early adopter (i.e. you discovered Bitcoin in 2009) like that Norwegian guy who put $27 into Bitcoin and now it's worth over $1 million or if you happened to pour a significant percentage of your savings into Bitcoin or invested in powerful GPU mining hardware when the price was still low. And even then, I'm sure many of these people would have sold their stash or lost some or all of their bitcoins in the hacks and exchange failures that were soon to follow. I'm sure there are many others like us who knew about Bitcoin back in the early days, were somewhat interested, but didn't put enough investment into it to fully reap the rewards of being an early adopter once the rest of the world realized its true potential.

[haploid23]

Awesome story to reminisce about those young days huh? That was unlucky indeed. All you had to do was to "forget" and not care about the chump change at the time, then you would have been filthy rich by now. I got involved when BTC was around the $4 mark, running all the way up to $32 before it crashed to $1. That's when I thought it was over...

-snipped-

OUCH!

You quoted the whole OP for a one word response? You know your post was right below his?  

[sgk]

Just recovered an old zero balance wallet belonging to myself... if anyone is interested ?

Re: I am the poorest early adopter in the world...

-snip-

This reminds me of a few stories: the 10,000 BTC pizza, the 7500 BTC HDD in the dump yard and the student who made fortune by recovering 5000 BTC from an old HDD.

If it is of any help to you, I would say the address isn't worthless though.
You can claim free CLAM coins on it

[Q7]

It's amazing how things changed...If only you wish there were 1000 btc which initially you have to intention to use but later forgot everything about it.

[herzmeister]

You can claim free CLAM coins on it

no, I think that's only for bitcoin addresses that actually contained coins on a certain date in May 2014.

[Sumerian]

You can claim free CLAM coins on it

no, I think that's only for bitcoin addresses that actually contained coins on a certain date in May 2014.

That's true.

It's pretty cook and sad at the same time to see the history of this wallet. I remember getting curious about Bitcoin but I've never really gotten into it back in 2011 because I thought it was a scam practice. I started to invest in december 2013 at the wrong time and wrong place..

[sgk]

Just recovered an old zero balance wallet belonging to myself... if anyone is interested ?

Re: I am the poorest early adopter in the world...

This guy is also in same line with you:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=914605.0

But he did not accumulate coins, he was just aware of Bitcoin at early stage but did not do anything to accumulate them.

Sad stories..

[haploid23]

This guy is also in same line with you:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=914605.0

That thread was what inspired BitcoinFX to share his story in this separate thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=914605.msg10065556#msg10065556

[bornil267645]

I have recovered a year old wallet last month and it contained 120k satoshi. Feeling clueless!! what to do!! That was almoost 1000$ priced BTC. Now its worth around 200@

[sgk]

I have recovered a year old wallet last month and it contained 120k satoshi. Feeling clueless!! what to do!! That was almoost 1000$ priced BTC. Now its worth around 200@

HODL it! There is nothing better you can do with it right now; if you sell, you lose.

Who knows if you hodl onto it, you'll be able to make a story out of it in future, hopefully a pleasant one ?

[botany]

You can claim free CLAM coins on it

no, I think that's only for bitcoin addresses that actually contained coins on a certain date in May 2014.

That's true.

It's pretty cook and sad at the same time to see the history of this wallet. I remember getting curious about Bitcoin but I've never really gotten into it back in 2011 because I thought it was a scam practice. I started to invest in december 2013 at the wrong time and wrong place..

I luckily discovered Bitcoin only in June 2014.
But I am still licking my wounds.

[Brewins]

You can go and read histories of people that lost millions worth of BTC due to hardware failure and other stuff.


Or about Goxed people

Might make you feel better

[runpaint]

Have you tried repairwallet command?

[BitcoinFX]

Thanks all.

Located my 500 BTC donation to Gavin's original faucet from this wallet.

Status: 267444 confirmations
Date: 04/08/2010 18:27
To: 15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC
Debit: -500.00 BTC
Net amount: -500.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 92435cc4da7808976aa6d3d9c8fb02e7fe23a48b9f9c73145ef738b0d8d977e2-000

- https://blockchain.info/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC

Crazy days !   

[sgk]

Thanks all.

Located my 500 BTC donation to Gavin's original faucet from this wallet.

Status: 267444 confirmations
Date: 04/08/2010 18:27
To: 15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC
Debit: -500.00 BTC
Net amount: -500.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 92435cc4da7808976aa6d3d9c8fb02e7fe23a48b9f9c73145ef738b0d8d977e2-000

- https://blockchain.info/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC

Crazy days !   

Crazy days indeed! How 500 BTC donation is now equal to 500 satoshi from faucets!

[Eastwind]

I have recovered a year old wallet last month and it contained 120k satoshi. Feeling clueless!! what to do!! That was almoost 1000$ priced BTC. Now its worth around 200@

On average, one person will own 300k satoshi. If you buy another 180k, you are no poorer than other people in BTC terms.