Quote from: Medusah on Today at 06:23:45 PM

That does not sound like something to deliberately leave untouched for 14 years either.

Only if you have just one Wink

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What kind of wallet software was reputable back in 2011?

It could be as simple as a paper wallet.

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Anything would be vastly inferior than the ones that were developed later on, in terms of security.

Cold storage now is not better than cold storage 14 years ago.

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Imagine watching your net worth go from $30k to $300m and keeping them in a paper wallet. Lol! If I was him, I would have moved them into a BIP39 seed phrase at least, if not multi-sig / BIP39 with passphrase.

Why? He could have turned it into a BIP38 encrypted paper wallet and burned the original in 2012. As long as it's safely tucked away, not touching it is the safest thing to do.

He also recovered $5M in BCH and has some other "crummies" in Forkcoins to go.