IF you intend to sell immediately. Everyone seems to only consider current exchange rates. If you look at where things are going and consider the future value, it's a different story...

I've had mine running well as low as 600W at about the same efficiency as running at full power. That said, yes, the S9 is out-dated and highly inefficient by comparison to other ASICs now.

You can swap the firmware and use pretty much whatever wattage you like.

I've got one that is submerged in mineral oil with a pump loop & silent fans.. It's literally silent.

I really should plug it back in...

Just emailed you back. Thanks.

Good Lord.. Not made up. It's just bizarre how people want to assume it is. Good point, though, wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for the stupid things I did back then, won't argue with that. I'm just surprised at the level of, and focus on skepticism as opposed to desire to earn a lot of money for helping out. I'm fully aware there were no seed phrases back then.. My point was that it was as easy as writing down a phrase, just a comparison of the difficulty of writing it down.

Details I will provide in direct communication with people able to help out, so if you're interested, email me. Don't intend to be posting here once I finish what I'm doing, so I don't value getting any merit out of it. I've just got a lot going on, not checking this every day.

Yep, wasn't difficult. Or just write them out.

Yep, never touched any of it. Wanted to let it appreciate. Regret it quite a bit.

Perfect example of how "unfortunate events" or unlikely things do happen..

You've nicely summarized one major issue here in a succinct way.

Not sure why someone would make it up.. I wonder how many "stories" like this that you've seen every month could have resulted in you getting a significant amount of money for simply helping someone out instead of being skeptical that someone is just wasting time on the internet making up some ridiculous story. Things happen in people's lives. Not everything goes the way people plan. Plenty of people early on in Bitcoin didn't realize the value that what they were doing may have later on and forgot about it, misplaced things, or "life" happened. People do bad things to other people, especially over money. All kinds of ridiculous things happen to people that aren't talked about. I figured I'd leave the details out, but all of it is very reasonably explainable. That said, believe what you want, I'm not going to waste time arguing about it. The one thing I will say is this: The reason it has been such a pain to get this recovered and taken so much time is reactions like yours when it could have been a simple process. I guess I should have lied and said something more believable.

That, and it was easy to make a paper backup back then. It was just a matter of writing down or printing a number of characters. An average English word is about 5 characters in length, so if you make a 12-word backup phrase, you're going to write out or somehow save 60 characters. A private key isn't much more difficult, if not easier.

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

Problem here is, it was so long ago, I don't remember. .dats for sure, others should be just keys in .txt files.



Old hard drive used to mine, transferred keys to a flash drive, flash drive wound up lost. Hard drive broken when opening up a decade or so later. Was able to get it recovered after trying 3 different facilities.
Yes. Have used a few programs so far, may need to repair, not sure yet.
Not sure exactly what you're asking. I'd assume the version or what I was using. This was 2009.
Thanks for the idea on recoverpy, I've tried a couple programs like that, but not that one yet!
If you don't mind checking and are willing to send something empty over, that would be much appreciated.



Already done, images are distributed for safe keeping and in good hands. Thanks for the good advice, though.
Indeed.



Yes just original Bitcoin. Thanks for the guidance.

Post I referenced:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5505059.msg64389377#msg64389377

Looking for anyone who has any super-old wallets where they stored keys and can provide file signatures from keys stored in hex/binary format.

Working on recovering some coin from that era and file signatures would be very helpful.

If anyone can provide them, will be happy to send some coin from the recovery if successful.

Thanks for guiding me in the right direction and the quick responses.


Partially just for posterity and wanting to go through the code, but I'm making another post regarding trying to get ahold of file signatures which I need to get from wallets that were made back then and stored which I'm trying to recover. I was considering doing a replica early Bitcoin test-net and making new wallets in order to utilize the file signatures from those, but I wonder if these are truly unedited original source code in it's entirety or not.. Haven't really messed with it yet.

If anyone would be able to help with old key file signatures, I'd be happy to send some coin over if we're able to recover. Recently had an old, broken hard drive recovered that I mined a significant amount on way back at the beginning and socked away for it to appreciate. I had copied it to a flash drive as well, but that wound up lost and I've spent the last 3 years trying to get the correct hard drive recovered with multiple recovery facilities. Finally was able to get a good image, but so far no luck. Appears it was deleted or overwritten as I had stored it elsewhere and the drive was used for a bit after that.

Very much so, thank you!

Hello,

I'm looking for the oldest copy of core I can find. Looking for older than what's in the repo...

Does anyone have a really old copy laying around?