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So if you had an old hard drive that crashed in 2009 and you remember that you installed the bitcoin client and that back then every user was automatically a miner. You don't remember any passwords or privatekeys because as said the hard drive just crashed. If somehow you could access the hard drive what files would you have to look for? Would it even possible to recover some btc in such a situation?

Also how do you get rid of this constant itch in the back of your had knowing that you could have already made it by now?

>> No.11340764

>>11340698
Forget about it nigga. The reason BTC is worth anything is because most people threw them away in the early days.
Don't end up like that guy who spends his time looking through a landfill in Wales for the HDD he threw out.

>> No.11341486

>>11340764
it hurts so much

>> No.11341546

>>11341486
Don't ask a professional to look for them on the drive unless you trust them 1000%.

>> No.11341552

>>11340698
Just look for BTC dummy.

>> No.11341554

>>11340698
Find a technician capable of data recovery, its possible to still pull data from old hard drives. As for getting into the wallet the password (or possibly even your private key) still exists in your memory, force your subconcious to tell you; either see a hypnotist or take up lucid dreaming and force your brain to render your password in a dream.

>> No.11341703

Something happened to me. Just look for the wallet.dat file if you can. Like anon said dont trust data recovery specialist.

>> No.11341717

>>11340698
> back then every user was automatically a miner
Fo real? I dld the mac os btc wallet in 2010, do I has coinz?

>> No.11341740

>>11341717
Not really the bitcoin-qt wallet had mining capabilities but that had to be enabled. Plus it was only on linux.

>> No.11341779

>>11341717
Version 1.0 for linux had the multi core processing capabilities which other OS didnt.

>> No.11341861

Is this board really just full of NPC's now?

>> No.11342049

>>11341554
>sends hdd to techneeeshan to find wallet.dat
>tech copies wallet.dat to his flash drive
>tech destroys hard drive
>gee sorry bud couldn't get any data off it that's too bad
>tech retires with 1500 BTC
fuck that

>> No.11342193
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11342193

>>11341703
this, look for wallet.dat within C:\Users\<you login name>\AppData

i was about to format and reinstall windows last year but at the last moment i remembered my 5 year old bitcoin client and found the wallet.dat which i had not backed up. lazy 1 minute search right before i formatted, fucking good thing i remembered since the price started skyrocketing a month after...

>> No.11342281

>>11341703
>>11342193
thank you

>> No.11342294

>>11342193
how much did you have?

>> No.11342594
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11342594

>>11342294
let's just say it was enough to get me back into crypto after abandoning it when MtGox went down. after reading up on things im excited about bitcoin again (bitcoin cash, that is)

>> No.11342740

>>11342193
>>11342594
larp confirmed.

>> No.11342780

every day, that keeps coming back over and over again

>> No.11343914
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11343914

>>11342740
all i know is i was out of crypto for almost 5 years and when i came back i discovered that bitcoin has changed its ticker symbol

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11344741

>>11341861
>forgot about bitcoin
>then remembered I had a flash drive with thousands
>but I could not find it
>I looked everywhere

>> No.11345264

>>11343914
Hear hear

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11345282

wallet.dat homie

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11345314

>>11340698
>Also how do you get rid of this constant itch in the back of your had knowing that you could have already made it by now?

Impossible. It will always be there, until your very last breath.

>> No.11345391

Son't worry. Someone with a quantum computer will scoop up those p2pk funds.