Your story makes me remember this user:
He also did lost is password.
Hello all. I haven't been here for a while so I saw your BCN thread for the first time yesterday evening. You know what? It seems to me I had been mining Bytecoin in 2012.
I was at Bitcoin London Conf in 2012 and went to have a beer with friends to the nearest pub last evening. I met a guy there (don't remember his name. something like Jeff or John, maybe).
He told me about ring signatures and mentioned something about CryptoNote. I felt interested and tried to ask him for more details. He was with a company too(10 or 12 people meetup) so our conversation was rather short. We chatted a bit and he gave me a card with .onion website address. He said it would be a currency of the future and I had to mine it.
It was mentioned before, sounds legit. Jeff Garzik anyone?
Jeff Garzik? Maybe, I don't remember. But doesn't look like a guy.
Old community army is coming at us? Lol.
So, been mining much in 2012?
I used to mine with my old laptop. Difficulty wasn't that high and I used to find blocks rather regularly. So I did around 100M for a week, but I saw no reason to mine further since I knew no places
to spend it. Also I didn't know where it came from and where it would be.
This is the last post of this user. Never again is been activ, very strange IMO.
I don't have the .onion address. But it looked similar to the one mentioned earlier.
And as I have already told I have the wallet keys files, but nothing else.
What's so weird about mining on laptop?
UPD: Here's the file if you want to have a look
https://anonfiles.com/file/a6a540eeb9b5fb8be89460951457a9fbbut in the BCN blockchain, ther actually is a link to this tweet from September 2012:
post during that time.