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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Diving into an old BTC wallet from ~2014 and found a nice surprise - what next?
by
ETFbitcoin
on 07/02/2021, 12:05:02 UTC
If you were in my situation, what would you try next?

After finding your Bitcoin addresses and see it's balance on blockexplorer, there are 2 options,
1. Wait until Bitcoin Core is fully synced, but only if you're willing to download 350+ GB of blockchain files and waiting some for time (depending on your internet and hardware speed).
2. Obtain private key of your wallet and import/sweep the private key on lightweight wallet (such as Electrum).