Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 10:52:00 AM

Quote from: kevinnem on October 02, 2021, 09:00:17 PM

I looked at the 2019 thread I started, and that is where I got the "guide" from .. and as I started reading through it, It mentioned that I need somewhat to move the coins to , IE like a new current address - and that is probably true. that is why I was asking , I made it that far, and realized, that even if I have access to the old address/data or what ever I need, I am really not prepared on what to do at that point.

My advice, especially since you've been at this for 8 years: recover your wallet.dat and/or private keys first. Once you have them secure (offline, airgapped, curtains closed, the usual paranoid precautions), create enough backups to make sure you won't lose them again.
Then, see from there how to continue. If you can recover your wallet, there's no rush to buy for instance a hardware wallet. If you can't recover your wallet, there's no use in arranging a new wallet already.

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I so far have found a few wallet.dat files on the old ( air gapped ) computer. There is a BTC program on it, seems to "run" , but when I go to open it, it appears to open "off the screen" and even trying to "cascade windows" doesn't seem to bring it back. might try hooking up second monitor.

Programs being "off the screen" sounds like a problem with your computer, not just the wallet. Copy the wallet to USB, and continue on a new (clean) computer.

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I don't even know what that data is .

How did you get into Bitcoin in 2013, if you have no idea what you did?
It looks like you turned $250 into $100,000. If you can recover your coins, that means your failures to recover your coins in 2013 and 2019 have paid off big time

Thanks for the replay, and advice

Yea, I admit, I have been " at this for 8 years" , but really haven't touched the technology in 7 - life has a way of making time fly by. I DO seem to have the wallet.dat files, I found 4 of them on the computer, 3 are the same size, one is bigger. I have now backed them all up a few times. I earnestly do apologize for the noob questions, really trying my best here. I used to understand a lot of this stuff, but I haven't touched it in so long. I have been really busy starting a company, getting married, building family members, losing family members, it seems these days I blink, and a month goes by.

I was correct that the previously installed bitcoin program , called "qt" was opening on another screen (that wasn't hooked up), it is now opening , and I can see it , there is a "overview" "send" "receive" "transactions" and "addresses" nothing really jumps out at me as an address or some thing of importance. The program is showing the recorded the 2 bitcoins. "transactions" show some account number not sure if they help. Now that I have access to this program, I have export the wallet from there as well.

there is a "received with" address starting with 1QC I don't think this really helps though.

So, some progress, any thoughts for next steps?