Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 02:22:17 PM

How did you go from this:

Quote from: TheMadGenius07 on November 01, 2023, 11:24:44 AM

Back in the summer of 2009, I downloaded Bitcoin and mined very briefly.

To this:

Quote from: TheMadGenius07 on Today at 01:30:49 PM

I have 223517 private keys that I imported, which, seems excessive. These private keys were in HEX decimal format that were than converted to WIF format and thus bulk imported into Electrum. Electrum is taking its good ol time synchorizing these private keys. In this process, is has recorded 2421 transactions the first ones occuring in 2011. So 223517 private keys and each one has a unique address. It finally verified an address with transactions, though, the balance is 0.

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If view details of the address, I can view the private key in its correct format. I guess my question I wonder is, if these, weren't my addresses or private keys, how would I end up with them on my hard drive?

You tell me Tongue

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Is it possible when downloading Bitcoin Core and the ledger that the scan program had gathered some of this information of other people's addresses?

Bitcion Core doesn't save "other people's private keys". It sounds like you've downloaded some known compromised private keys.

You shouldn't use Electrum to import 200k private keys. Bitcoin Core will probably have problems too. Just convert them to addresses, and compare with all funded addresses or all addresses ever used. I've used bitcoin-tool years ago, it should be able to convert bulk private keys to addresses. I wouldn't trust it on an online system.

The story started in the summer of 2009 and i remember downloading bitcoin qt and running bitcoin brought my state of the art gaming computer to a stand still for about 3 hours or so. Until I believe I shut off the program. I remember seeing that there was only ever to be 21 million coin and each coin was at .007 cents at the time in value.

Thoroughout the years I stayed in tune with bitcoin, though, i don't remember actively mining after 2009 or 2010. When 2017 came along and it shot up in price and figured I had some lost bitcoin potentially somewhere.
It took my a few more years before I would start the search for it across what would be multiple hard drives because when you're a gamer, I was constantly upgrading hard drives.

After scanning 5 hard drives, these are the results that were outputted. Most of these hard drives haven't been used since 2015. They have just been sitting unplugged and on my computer desk. It really makes me scratch my head when I scan them and the program is finding usable data. It is possible though data migration over the years across these drives. I'm trying know to better understand the backend of Bitcoin and how it truly stores coins/address/private keys.

Is it possible on comprised private keys, I guess, but I never went looking for private keys online. I know how to run Python programs but not C programs. So if you know of Python program that would be great.