Quote from: Cricktor on October 28, 2024, 09:40:16 PM

Quote from: theunionjack on October 27, 2024, 11:35:39 AM

Anywoo last night I boot up one of the random drives I already had & transfered the majority of the files unrelated to media (music/video). One of the folders contain a series of public keys but funnily enough an Armory wallet screenshot I don't even remember from 2014. Screenshot has a box with eighteen random 4 letter combinations & a QR to regerated the wallet. Sent pics to CryptoJ0hn on email & will also send them to you.

I'm not sure anyone can follow what you do with those files on one of your "random drives". OK, I can't and that's just me, ignore it.

Your details are confusing. Public keys are this: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/beginners/guide/public-keys/
I've no good explanation why someone not-so-Bitcoin-technical would've a folder with a "series of public keys". Is this folder in proximity of some wallet related folders? Do you mind telling its name, unless it's totally private and self-named? Not sure if this would shed some more light into this mystery.

Does this Armory wallet screenshot look similar to this one?

https://recovermycryptowallet.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Armory-Wallet-1024x655.png
Source of picture: https://recovermycryptowallet.com/recover-bitcoin-from-armory-wallet/

I can't speak for the integrity of users whom you send possibly pictures of wallet recovery details. You should be careful whom you can trust with such details.

I also don't get why you speak of PGP keys in the context of wallets. You mentioned PGP keys already earlier which confused at least me a bit, but I didn't see it as important.

Every now and then new things pop up. Next is "keygen software". I would associate this with the warez scene, keygens being usually small pieces of software to generate serial keys for some software which needs specific serial keys to activate/license it.

This is no rant, I'm just confused by your story. Consider to omit unnecessary personal details of your family and how you spend your time. I don't see how this relates to your topic here. You may think it's nice for the context, but I find it rather off-topic and distracting. I don't know how others think of it.

Personally I find a lot of recovery related topics quite interesting because many have good challenges and things to learn from. Enough for now...

Yeah I am with this guy, you have confused your self a bit with fairly basic stuff and terminology. You also post anecdotes that aren't needed and prove nothing other than to I feel convince yourself. You mention things that you have either heard someone else say from their experience or read from somewhere and have taken it as your own experience.

No one cares what you remember or know about events, we were all there too and doesn't solve your problem. I myself was mining BTC with GPUs, so thats 2010. BTC started in 2009 and I heard about it from an unlikely source, but I was working in IT at the time with some computer scientists and they told me about it. The tech hasnt changed THAT much.

It beggars belief someone with who lacks basic fundamentals and knowledge about computers in general and btc would even be looking at BTC back then as this site was the only one around and it was created by satoshi himself and he has posted here, but you claim you bought it after "hearing" about the btc pizza guy which was in May of 2010 and it didnt make the main stream media news, it was just news on this site at first when it happened as the exchange/convo and agreement happened on here. People were sending btc for fun all over the place on here and selling it which came a little later on. Lots of people selling BTC on here if you look, like some people were asking for 20 bucks for 1000 btc around the same time etc and no one bought it.

MT Gox came online in March 2010, Silkroad was 2011 and Agora was 2013. So your telling us, you bought btc in 2010 after the btc pizza incident, transferred it and then never touched it again ? but then you claim to have used silkroad and agora etc later on, so what did you use then ? Cant have been the original account since you cant access it and coins never moved since buying.

Install armory already and try and import your screen shot, its all you can do. You didnt need a new computer to do that, its a 24mb download. If you created this paper wallet on a website, its the same as using the qt client, its just quicker and you get access to both the keys for that account without needing to download anything else. Most people downloaded the client and ran the node, and still do which keeps the keys in their wallet.dat file. paper wallets are created basically the same was an every other account, there is nothing mysterious about it. There were no seed or mnemonic words until 2013. Seed words, mnemonics, secret words are all the same thing. It what was used to recreate the account from the blockchain. Basically the words are the human readable version of a sequence of random words that stores the data required to access or recover cryptocurrency on blockchains or crypto wallets. I feel your are not going to be able to rebuild the wallet with random words that arent a part of any recognized word list, as they are very specific words and not random made up words on the spot and nor could you choose which ones you wanted, never ever worked this way.

Anyway good luck.