Mined quite a bit of Bitcoin way back at the beginning. Socked it away on a HDD, as well as on a flash drive in normal fashion, and paper backups. Since I mined quite a bit, I figured I'd let it appreciate and didn't really mess around with mining again until ~2017. For about 6 years now I've been working on recovering my old wallets.

Flash drive wound up being lost. HDD was broken after moving across country and after more than a decade it was between two drives, one of which wound up being unrecoverable after 3 separate data recovery facilities, and one that I was finally able to get an image of from the last facility. Paper backups wound up being tossed out, lost, or stolen over the years. Some I buried after splitting them into quarters and separated them geographically. After so long, it seems most have been built over with new construction after farmland being sold etc.

Working with the hard drive, unfortunately all I really remember is that I stored the keys and other data in binary and hex formats. I did not store them as regular wallets. I was pretty paranoid.

I've been able to recover some binaries that I'm not sure how to get converted back, and have chunks of keys that I recovered from paper and text files, but no full keys.

Anyone willing to help, I'm happy to part with 10% of whatever we can recover.

Email me: myprotonsignupemail@proton.me