Quote from: retroverseworld on Today at 06:47:12 PM

Wow, I'm impressed by all the responses and kindness of everyone that responded. Thank you all so much, you are amazing people.
To address the questions raised. I bought anything between 500 and 1500 BTC back in 2009 or 2010, can't remember the amount exactly. I downloaded electrum on my PC, and spent a couple of days teaching myself to transfer between wallets. I wrote down the seed words for each wallet in a note book and once I was successful in making a few transfers I totally forgot about Bitcoin; until 2016 when the price of Bitcoin started rallying like crazy.

Then I spent 5 years searching for the notebook and eventually found it. I restored the wallet but it was empty and showed no transactions ever taking place in the history. That is still the case with that wallet. Then yesterday I was paging through a notebook, for a novel I wrote (Two River Farm and the Cry of the Jackal if anyone is interested); and here I found another set of 12 words. I promptly plugged them into electrum and was pleasantly surprised to see historical transactions on it; but depressed to see the balance as zero BTC.

Since the chances of someone else having the same seed as me as virtually zero, I can only imagine a scammer; somehow got hold of my seed, quite possible as I was using a windows XP laptop at the time and withdrew all my Bitcoin.
I think I'm in way over my head here; despite more than five years of searching.

Here is one of the transactions, see what you make of it and let me know.49b17aaeb9308d2d314438baf6321033af09f62c0e9914e5b01ac4d7ba481a4d bc1qmuuc762cw02gg9j7fmqrw0wcmr0ffm5xkxjnln 10.78134

Either my money has been stolen or we've found the first ever key collision in the history of Bitcoin and that's worth the Bitcoin Foundation paying off my kids' student loans and some.

Any comments are fully appreciated.

I don’t know if you are trying to fool us or you just don’t really know how a Bitcoin works.

Check carefully your wallet I can't even seem to find the transaction of 500 to 1500 BTC from the address you posted.
If your Bitcoin came from this address 17HF2zJE5SWezC5VJF3uXfve3CuxPdDAUA then the total amount of this address is 0.32290541BTC and the first transaction of this wallet was Apr 25, 2021, which is far from what you said.

Are you sure that you own this wallet?