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I just found an old Samsung hard drive behind books that I hidden around 10 years ago. I couldn't remember the place it was hidden (I have undiagnosed autism). Please wish me to have at least 100 bitcoins stored there. I remember that I once bought a lot of them on some exchange (unknown name, blue design) and moved to wallet on the drive.

Anyone here can please tell me what exchange it could be? The only thing I remember is blue design (in around 2010 year). There may be some btc, alts left, but for 90% the exchange is not exist or was hacked...

If someone help me to find name of the exchange I can share something if there are any bitcoins. I'll check the drive later this week, I have only acccess to smartphone at this moment.

This is the only chance in my life. I am so excited but also stressed a lot :(

>> No.23819261

the exchange doesn't matter anon.

>> No.23819298

>>23819187
Why do you need to know the exchange? You would just need the wallet keys ect

>> No.23819308

>>23819187
What’s your discord op?

>> No.23819337

>>23819308
Don't add ANYONE on ANYTHING OP. So many people are going to try and scam you

>> No.23819355

>>23819187
https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/36-bitcoin-exchanges-that-are-no-longer-with-us

>> No.23819375

>>23819337
Like you trying to run a confidence man scam right now?

>> No.23819387

>>23819187
depends, are you an amerimutt or a europoor

>> No.23819433

>>23819375
Lol fuck off you scamming fuck. My first reply was going to be my last until I saw your reply

>> No.23819459

>lol I might have 100 btc
>but I'll check the drive next week

>> No.23819461

>>23819433
I totally believe you, scammer

>> No.23819484

I'm from central Europe.

Why not, here is my discord:
mike099#6571

Thank you for the exchange list :) I'll check them. It's a shame that I only remember blue design... I had like 100+ accounts saved in my notes, mainly for games, but also paxum, liberty reserve, like centralized wallets.

>> No.23819489

>>23819187
Find the correct exchange likely won’t help you obtain the BTC, as older buys tended to go straight into a private wallet with keys you needed to save. Any chance, there’s some old document on your computer or in a notebook where you may have written down your private keys?

>> No.23819521

>>23819337
>>23819375
>>23819433
>>23819461
I was also going to scam him
>honeypot

>> No.23819535

>>23819459
I am not in rush, I know that this is very important to not make stupid emotional moves.

>> No.23819569

>>23819484
Are you sure that HDD is not formatted? Because recently I myself found a HDD that had a btc wallet in it (with btc) and tt was formatted so gg. I tried to recoger it but no success.

>> No.23819577

>>23819461
How would I be trying to scam him if I said don't add anyone on anything? Is your IQ in the single or double digits?

Goodbye and good luck OP I hope these fags don't try and scam you.

>> No.23819594

>>23819569
recover*

>> No.23819602

>>23819577
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, scammer

>> No.23819605

>>23819489
Yes, a high chance. I always noted to txt all accounts to games, domain providers, servers, internet wallets like egold, paxum etc. What if I have only a digital wallet there? Without keys in txt file...

>> No.23819609

>>23819187
There's a wallet called electrum, download that one and you'll be able to transfer your BTC to a more modern wallet, as the ones from 10 years ago might not be compatible.
BACKUP THE FILES, ESPECIALLY THE WALLET.DAT, REFUSING TO DO SO AND UPDATING ELECTRUM AUTOMATICALLY WILL WIPE THE WALLET. SAVE THE WALLET.DAT FILE SOMEWHERE SAFE.
I want you to make it anon, don't mess this up. People became an hero just by wiping the drive/files accidentally.

>> No.23819624 [DELETED] 

>>23819187
probably just blockchain.com
or coinbase

>>23819535
pls send me anything, I bet all my savings on Trump and now I'm stuck in a fking limbo because of this nigger Bidet
1MWZkoBZu3r6mrGpUJB2mgt59AQt7zCpVV

>> No.23819665

>>23819569
For 100% its not formatted. I never did this to any of my old disks. I properly save my data to external disks with 1TB at least. But I think that chances are very low that there's something :( but still a chance.

>> No.23819695 [DELETED] 

>>23819665
all you need it a private key for the wallet you used years ago
where did you send those btc? what program were you using?

>> No.23819698

>>23819665
Search for wallet.dat or something like that

>> No.23819702

>>23819609
this so much good luck michael

>> No.23819711

>>23819609
Oh my god, this is why I posted this thread there... I heard about these stupid mistakes. Thanks man, you deserve a %.

>> No.23819733 [DELETED] 

>>23819711
always make backups. the files might get corrupted but your btc don't be wiped unless you send them to an invalid adress

>> No.23819758

>>23819695
I have no idea, it was just an unknown digital wallet. Damn I see that chances are getting lower and lower...

>> No.23819777 [DELETED] 

>>23819711
you can import the wallet.dat to your client (bitcoin core?) without updating the entire network and thus downloading hundreds of GB of blockchain
you can then export the private key from the program and use it to move your bitcoin elsewhere

>> No.23819781

>>23819665
Why dont u fuck off and come back AFTER u checked ur harddrive. This is completely useless speculation and what the fuck u need the exchange for?

>> No.23819803 [DELETED] 

>>23819758
there weren't many clients back then
did you download a program? or used some different app? be specific, you should remember

>> No.23819806

Op I will literally degrade myself on this public fourm with a sharpie up my anus for 0 bitcoin

>> No.23819810

>>23819698
Ok, so my first moves should be:
1. Search "wallet.dat"
2. Make a backup of this file
3. Try to open with electrum wallet

>> No.23819861

>>23819810
If you want to be extra careful you can do it on airplane mode, otherwise you got it

>> No.23819863

>>23819781
Because I heard stories about wiped bitcoins due to bad moves. I know the only way would be to post this in public.

The exchange may contained some altcoins, because I have not moved them like netcoin, infinity coin or something like that

>> No.23819883

>>23819605
you might have a 32 word seed ( a word passphrase used to recreate the private key) instead of the private key iteself check for that and for wallet.dat files

1GBZdtQQoFPtRkB1KWNZvREwFzVc3Jxezm

>> No.23819901

>>23819861
Ok, thanks, I can just turn off my internet :)

>> No.23819925

>>23819187
Give it back Jamal.

>> No.23819948

Should I accept people on Discord? :/ I am a little worried now when someone told about scamming...

>> No.23819950

>>23819569
explain, otherwise how many bitcoins were on it and can i buy the HDD?

>> No.23819976

>>23819810
Yeah also make sure you back up the wallet.dat file before doing anything

>> No.23820054

I remember that the first I heard about bitcoin on their ugly website bitcoin.com. So probably the wallet was from there, bitcoin core.

>> No.23820069

>>23819948
don't add anyone. Lots of assholes in here.
Before anything else, you should get as much information as you can about how wallets work and how to recover them. ALWAYS suspect of everyone from the internet trying to be a good Samaritan, especially about crypto.

>> No.23820101

>>23819950
Hahahaha, you made my day. Do you want to buy my old HDD? Should I sell it before I check if there are any bitcoins? What is your price, I am just curious :D

>> No.23820123

>>23820101
i asked the other guy, but sure if you have issues with recovering i would buy your hdd too

>> No.23820368

>>23820123
OK. First I want to check it. But 10 plus years old... it may be broken who know. If something happaned, I'll try to fix it or restore data. It's priceless right now xd

>> No.23820499

>>23820368
even if shit is formatted you can recover it. I have accomplished some miraculous data recovery you would not believe from damaged and deleted things.

that being said, you might need more than your wallet files, you might need a special key or whatever. I have never used an offline wallet but I know theres a few steps involved

>> No.23820574

>>23819187
Nice scam you have here mate. Hope it's still working.

>> No.23820921

>>23820499
You can leave some contact, in case if the disk will be damaged or deleted, I'll write to you. The only thing I recovered are my photos from camera micro sd... I have some budget left so I can pay for help.

>>23820574
What scam? Explain more. I can show you more photos of the HDD with 4chan today date.

>> No.23820928

nice

>> No.23820954

>>23819187
3/10 LARP

>> No.23820976

>>23819187
Ok read this carefully, you might have 100 btc which is more than 1 million $ and is life changing money, so you need to be autistic about it.
Don't touch the hard drive now, you waited 10 years you can wait a week.
Buy 2 other hdds and clone the hdd you have to the other 2s (I don't know how it's done, but I'd think just mount it and copy paste somewhere else), don't modify anything on it unless you have backed it up.
Do not mount it on a windows pc, why risk it man? there are lots of viruses that scrap your data looking for seed words or private keys using regex, they also scrap external media, you won't know you have them probably since they don't do anything else, again why risk it.
once it's cloned on 2 other hdds, then you start digging, turn your internet off and do as anons have said, try to find wallet.dat, but don't copy it to a usb key if it's not encrypted to take it somewhere else, instead re encrypt it with 7zip if you have it or something (that way even if the passphrase for the wallet.dat is on that same pc as a .txt) it won't be able to upload it when the internet is back on, look hard in that pc to find all the txt backups, don't send them by email or usb, if not long just use pen and paper (put tape on your pc's camera and don't read them out loud).
This is paranoid but you have to be paranoid right now, also don't trust anyone telling you they can help you if you send them a file.

>> No.23821048

>>23820921
>You can leave some contact, in case if the disk will be damaged or deleted, I'll write to you.
This is retarded, just learn to do it yourself, people spend 5 years in university to wagecuck and make less money than you can recover on your hdd, so you must learn everything yourself (you'll probably need kali linux and some tools to dump the hex data of the hdd then search all the strings as hex that resemble a bitcoin seed or private key or wallet.dat), but hopefully it's not damaged, the magnetic hdds don't lose data just sitting on a shelf for years, it's the flash ones that do, so it'll probably be ok.

>> No.23822235

>>23820976
#1 answer. Thank you man. My whole life may depend on your comment...

What if I find the bitcoins, sell now, hold until Q4 2021 or 50/50?

>> No.23822879

>>23822235
Only sell some when you need money and keep hodling for rest of your life.

>> No.23823226

Here's a link that talks a little bit of the history of the bitcoin wallet. Looks like you can still download the original wallet. But you would need to be super careful and get some good advice about how to do it.

Someone from bitcoin.org might be able to give you good advice? - but like other anons have said - be super careful about trusting anyone.

Hope it works out for you!

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-history-part-18-the-first-bitcoin-wallet/

>> No.23823283
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23823283

Best of luck, OP! Keep us posted.

>> No.23823709

>>23819535
Bruh it's a hard drive. Just plug it in.

>> No.23823730

>>23819187
hi uncle moshe

>> No.23823776

>>23819187
You can safely transport BTC to exchange by sending it to this secure wallet sir! 3299GRynRo2bVVENDn6tneuJRH4cw63hKt

It will be immediately at your disposal sir. Thank you in advance.

>> No.23823885

I sell max 30%. I believe in btc and crypto, it may be a multi trillions market :)

How I can keep the thread updated? It will be closed soon... Maybe just wait for my next post, I'll make a similar thread within a week.

>> No.23824039

>>23823709
Hard drive worth between $30 and infinity... maybe its private satoshi nakamoto (SAMSUNG) disk, hahahah. I bet that there's only one bitcoin and thats all. I wasnt very rich ten years ago, just making and rank sites in Google, around few grands monthly. It was super easy, good old times ;((( I miss very much.

>> No.23824102

>>23823226
Exactly like on the first photo, I remember these icons.

>> No.23824104

>>23819187
Small question. How did you heard about bitcoin back then?

>> No.23824112

>>23824039
You should get that autism diagnosed anon

>> No.23824253

>>23820976
You can use clonezilla bootable for that

>> No.23824355

>>23824104
Mu business partner told me about it (exactly showed me ugly btc website, i refused for the first time. It was like a wow game coin. But later somehow managed to buy on exchange). He was a domainer. We was making a web projects together. If here are my bitcoins, then... I'll drive to meet him personally for the first time :)

>> No.23824413

>>23824112
Why? Life is good, sometimes people forget about old hard drives :) And I have a little more "mental intelligence", intuition that help me a lot.

>> No.23825043
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23825043

Golden luck to you pal

>> No.23825962

>>23819484
i sent a friend request i may be able to help, Shane 322

>> No.23826032

>>23824413
>mental intelligence
Sweet

>> No.23826065

>itt newfags falling for this gay larp

>> No.23826091

>>23824355
how can u only have 1 from 2010? bitcoin was pennies then, u could have thousands

>> No.23826125

>>23823283
based
I really hope you make it op
do your research, try downloading electrum on your PC before attempting to recover any coins and test deleting the wallet, some small transactions with any exchange you can purchase from, like 5$ or something and I hope you got some good amount of crypto on this HDD
godspeed

>> No.23826148

>>23825962
What do you want to help with? Do you know name of the blue exchange?

>> No.23826183

>>23826065
I swear to god, its all true. Read again the whole thread and see...

Not possible for thousands of btc, but I remember when bitcoin grew from one dollar to 20+ something. And it was a lot later... ;(

>> No.23826864

>>23823730
Moshe.. he died anon.
His nephew will see us all right tho.
As OP will.

>> No.23827097
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23827097

hurry up and post how much btc you have/had so we can all be jealous, call you a faggot, beg for some and then move on with our lives
I don't care about your life story or what you're gonna do with it, just show us what you have or fuck off

>> No.23827150

>>23827097
he still does not have anything, we gave him tips to attempt to recover them
don't be a jealous fag and just try to post positive shit like most of the anons here of don't post anything

>> No.23827209

>>23827150
he talks about making sites etc years ago, this guy knows how to google. he's just wasting our time by being a cocktease.
why would he post a discord? he knows 50 million jeets will add him to try and get their hands on his btc. he's just baiting anon come on

>> No.23827287

>>23827209
I thought he might be baiting but I want to believe and spread good vibes as much as I can before I go away
but I guess you're right
have a good day fren and HODL on

>> No.23827861

Larp Have Sex

>> No.23828014

>>23819948
Absolutely not, do you know how many scammers frequent this board?! Dont... add .... anyone. As the other anons said, do research.

>> No.23828032

>>23819535
>possibly have $1.5M
>in no hurry
LARP

>> No.23828063

>>23828032
You have no control of yourself and your actions. Do not be surprised that anons on here are more successful than you when you can't even accomplish the most basic task of >delayed gratification
Literally corresponds to how high your IQ is too, so ur either a Midwit or high 80's

>> No.23828080

>>23819355
Keylogger
stop trying to steal OPs coins

>> No.23828115

>>23819187
WAIT

DONT DO LIKE OTHER ANONS!


SAVE EVERYTHING BEFORE CLICKING ON ANYTHING!!!


It may update and make your wallet.dat disappear

>> No.23828119

What’s your private key? I’ll check to see if btc

>> No.23828167

>>23819187
The name is either Kraken or Coinbase or Bittrex or Bitcoin.de

Let me know if I’m right so I can give you my wallet address :)

>> No.23828224

>>23828119
pajeet detected
don't give anyone your keys op

>> No.23828354

>>23828080
How can you tell?

>> No.23828927

I was just aboit to scam OP

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>>23819187
good luck fren. maybe you have 1000 btc instead of 100

>> No.23829014

>>23819187
OP I want to scam you. What's your discord? I won't scam you too hard if you give me some of that free cash (I'm a good guy, I deserve it).

>> No.23829061

>>23819187
Any coins that stayed on obscure exchanges for that amount of time is sure to have been stolen by now.

>> No.23829068

kek why are are you even hiding random harddrives in the first place. anyways whatever good luck op and get your autism checked out

>> No.23829104

>>23819187
What do you think is going to happen when you try to convert found bitcoin into cash? I had a similar situation a while ago where I found it on a computer I bought at an estate auction. Since I had no way of generating such a huge amount of income without cluing off the IRS, I had to do what was my legal responsibility and return it to the executors and notify them that there was a lot of value there that had to be distributed among the beneficiaries. Thankfully one of the beneficiaries was a 9/10 cutie who repaid me with sex. Don't gotta claim that on my taxes. B)

>> No.23829378

>>23819187
mt. gox and virtex are the only ones I remember

>> No.23830350

>>23819187
You lucky autist. Buy my freedom from the jews please. Buy land and start a tribe.