Yeah I'm trying to get more mental mnemonics going. What I remember doing, is running it for a while and then succumbing to peer pressure that it would never go anywhere and the questionable legality aspects to it also dissuaded me further. If it was considered something of value, were exchanges legit and so on. The potential it had for facilitating criminal activity. Also the idea of leaving ports open to host the blockchain database wasn't very appealing as hackers could get in that way or so I was told. I had extremely little understanding of any of it.
Went and did research and educated myself from some of the replies. The actual HD it was on I think crashed. It was a PATA drive 200 GB. Mechanical failure roughly, the voice coil went bad and the spindle motor couldn't sync anymore and get the platters to speed. I 'might' still have the drive but I'm not sure. So the idea of retrieving the wallet.dat file is most likely impossible going that route and method. I had deleted it too but I know if a file is not overwritten it can be recovered. But hence the issue with the spindle motor.
So I kept reading and researching. From what I read, I need the UUID/wallet ID number, from that I can retrieve a copy of the wallet.dat file from the blockchain itself. From there I need at least some of the 12 or 24 word passphrase(?). I found out about btcrecovery.py,may work if I can get enough of the word passphrase.
It's kind of ironic, I remember the circumstances and alot of the details of when I mined, the one password and other bits but other stuff, not at all. I know what I did what is now known as solo mining, so it was before pools, or maybe I just didn't know of pools yet. There was no GUI, it was all in a MSDOS promtp/command shell. Text only etc...
I've discovered the blockchain explorer at blockchain.info which is now apparently blockchain.com. Is there a way I can identify a wallet by when it was mined to and or where it was mined at by IP address? I do know who my ISP was back then, where I was, how long I mined and when and so on. I could narrow down the wallet from the blockchain that way. Metadata from the transactions. I'm realizing that without the wallet.dat file I'm dead in the water.
I do remember there was a long string of words that to me seemed random, I was puzzled how it was a password or passphrase. I do remember setting up a password for an account though, and I remember what that one is. THere was a bunch of things I didn't understand, what a UUID or wallet ID was one of them.
I do wonder that it was somehow version .4 or another, but it was definitely early in the development and history of BitCoin.
This is becoming something of an adventure
Went and did research and educated myself from some of the replies. The actual HD it was on I think crashed. It was a PATA drive 200 GB. Mechanical failure roughly, the voice coil went bad and the spindle motor couldn't sync anymore and get the platters to speed. I 'might' still have the drive but I'm not sure. So the idea of retrieving the wallet.dat file is most likely impossible going that route and method. I had deleted it too but I know if a file is not overwritten it can be recovered. But hence the issue with the spindle motor.
So I kept reading and researching. From what I read, I need the UUID/wallet ID number, from that I can retrieve a copy of the wallet.dat file from the blockchain itself. From there I need at least some of the 12 or 24 word passphrase(?). I found out about btcrecovery.py,may work if I can get enough of the word passphrase.
It's kind of ironic, I remember the circumstances and alot of the details of when I mined, the one password and other bits but other stuff, not at all. I know what I did what is now known as solo mining, so it was before pools, or maybe I just didn't know of pools yet. There was no GUI, it was all in a MSDOS promtp/command shell. Text only etc...
I've discovered the blockchain explorer at blockchain.info which is now apparently blockchain.com. Is there a way I can identify a wallet by when it was mined to and or where it was mined at by IP address? I do know who my ISP was back then, where I was, how long I mined and when and so on. I could narrow down the wallet from the blockchain that way. Metadata from the transactions. I'm realizing that without the wallet.dat file I'm dead in the water.
I do remember there was a long string of words that to me seemed random, I was puzzled how it was a password or passphrase. I do remember setting up a password for an account though, and I remember what that one is. THere was a bunch of things I didn't understand, what a UUID or wallet ID was one of them.
I do wonder that it was somehow version .4 or another, but it was definitely early in the development and history of BitCoin.
This is becoming something of an adventure