Hi,
I have a friend who bought bitcoin in 2009 but cant remember much at all.
On his laptop there is a bitcoin folder but it is dated 2018 for when the wallet.dat was created which leads me to believe that it was made this year.
HOWEVER
When I go into the debug text file in the folder some of the info reads like this:
2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=00000000839a8e6886ab5951d76f411475428afc90947ee320161bbf18eb6048 height=1 version=0x00000001 log2_work=33.000022 tx=2 date='2009-01-09 02:54:25' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(1txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=000000006a625f06636b8bb6ac7b960a8d03705d1ace08b1a19da3fdcc99ddbd height=2 version=0x00000001 log2_work=33.584985 tx=3 date='2009-01-09 02:55:44' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(2txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=0000000082b5015589a3fdf2d4baff403e6f0be035a5d9742c1cae6295464449 height=3 version=0x00000001 log2_work=34.000022 tx=4 date='2009-01-09 03:02:53' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(3txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=000000004ebadb55ee9096c9a2f8880e09da59c0d68b1c228da88e48844a1485 height=4 version=0x00000001 log2_work=34.32195 tx=5 date='2009-01-09 03:16:28' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(4txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=000000009b7262315dbf071787ad3656097b892abffd1f95a1a022f896f533fc height=5 version=0x00000001 log2_work=34.584985 tx=6 date='2009-01-09 03:23:48' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(5txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:33 UpdateTip: new best=000000003031a0e73735690c5a1ff2a4be82553b2a12b776fbd3a215dc8f778d height=6 version=0x00000001 log2_work=34.807377 tx=7 date='2009-01-09 03:29:49' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(6txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:33 UpdateTip: new best=0000000071966c2b1d065fd446b1e485b2c9d9594acd2007ccbd5441cfc89444 height=7 version=0x00000001 log2_work=35.000022 tx=8 date='2009-01-09 03:39:29' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(7txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:33 UpdateTip: new best=00000000408c48f847aa786c2268fc3e6ec2af68e8468a34a28c61b7f1de0dc6 height=8 version=0x00000001 log2_work=35.169947 tx=9 date='2009-01-09 03:45:43' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(8txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:33 UpdateTip: new best=000000008d9dc510f23c2657fc4f67bea30078cc05a90eb89e84cc475c080805 height=9 version=0x00000001 log2_work=35.32195 tx=10 date='2009-01-09 03:54:39' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(9txo)
At the end of each paragraph it shows the date of 2009, could this mean something?
I have the wallet.dat but when I downloaded the Bitcoin Core wallet onto my computer and synched it and the replaced the wallet.dat with his one it shows 0. Am I doing something wrong or missing something?