CPU - I think it was the 900 series with a 20GB hard disk an an Intel Atom processor - N270; 1.19 M#/s. I gave up mining when GPUs came in - simply too busy to do all the work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC

I appreciate the tip re. the forks. I was aware of BCH but not some of the others and Darkstar's website was nice.

Btcspot. At one point you asked me whether I had recovered my funds yet. If you knew as much as me about Bitcoin you would have looked up the address on blockchain.info and seen that I hadn't. I agree you sent me a link (which I had already found for myself, though you were not to know that) but you also gave some advice I consider to be quite poor and hassled me to an extent I found unpleasant. I like to keep quiet about my Bitcoins. The reason I posted here was that I didn't understand why I was having trouble with the transactions and wanted guidance to avoid making expensive mistakes. I was really hoping not to have to resort to raw transactions. Not that I wouldn't have been capable of it (remember I downloaded the software in Summer 2010) but because there was a lot of detail I didn't want to have to learn and such a clear potential for getting things wrong.

Have you ever been to the third developing world? The crushing poverty can be overwhelming with poor kids and beggars hassling you for money. It's deeply distressing and yet hard to do anything about. I'm not generally a fan of Bill Gates but I believe he said that it's as hard to give money away effectively as it is to make it in the first place. I'm afraid I see no indication that giving away money to you would be particularly effective - which is not to say I'm not sympathetic, though it may not seem that way to you.

It may sound a bit crude, but I keep thinking of an unkempt man who owned a van and apparently cruised the streets of of a local city yelling 'Want a f**k?' at any women he passed. One or two in a hundred apparently said 'yes' and joined him in the back of the van, in which he had a mattress.  It's one way to get laid, I suppose, and as far as I can imagine it's not illegal. But the cost is that the 99 women who say 'no' feel distressed and perhaps threatened as they go about their daily lives. Likewise, it's very corrosive if you are trying to discuss technical matters against a constant backdrop of begging letters. Perhaps not as bad as the example above, but it still leaves me with something of a bad taste in my mouth when I visit the forum.

Having some money feels very odd. I've worked very hard at school since I was 4, got into a very competitive course at university, continued to work very hard ever since. Ended up with a mortgage on a fairly modest house that I expected to pay off when I was 62 despite overstretching myself financially to pay for it. One day I read an article about Bitcoin on Slashdot, downloaded the program and mined 50 bitcoins that 7 years later are worth more than I earn in a decade. I'm not complaining but neither am I kidding myself that this is anything like 'normal'.

Being around people with money can be very harmful to your perspective on life. Bitcoin is about money, so for a little help on the forum you suggested I pay you $50,000 (or whatever 3 bitcoins were worth at the time). At the moment I also need a bit of help with a carburetor with a flat spot. If somebody helped me out on the carburetor forum, would you expect me to pay him $50,000 for his expertise - which these days is at least as specialised and scarce as expertise about Bitcoin? In my job I could easily kill somebody if I'm not careful. A few times I've even saved somebody's life by spotting something other people had missed*. Do I get a $50,000 bonus every time I save somebody's life? Should I? The answer is 'no' on both counts. There's nothing special about advice about money that makes it more valuable than advice about other matters.

So, cultivate a sense of perspective. I get the impression that you are young and I am aware of how hard life can be these days. Although my mortgage has been crippling, I considered myself lucky to have one at all. I know that quality jobs are not as common as they used to be - the salary for my job is far lower than it would have been a decade or two ago. Something is going fundamentally wrong with the way society works. But that doesn't mean that hassling people for bitcoins on the internet is an acceptable thing to do.

Paradoxically, I think the reason I have made money out of Bitcoin was because I was interested in it for its own sake and never really expected to. It seemed like a fun experiment and I was intrigued by it. What else are you interested in? By all means keep whatever bitcoin you own, but can I suggest you try to think of them a little less. I think your life will be better for it.

* true, that works both ways

Achow101, thank you for your kind instructions.

Given that I have recovered an unsent raw transaction and posted a redacted version of the output above, is there anything obviously wrong with it? I have verified that the number 'MyLedgerAddress' is the correct public key for my Ledger wallet. I won't hold you responsible if I lose my bitcoins, but would be grateful if you could tell me if there is anything obviously wrong with it or if there is any advantage to trying to make a raw transaction from scratch, in the way that you describe?

Believe me, I'm more paranoid than that fact might imply! If anybody's wondering, there's no point in tracing my address and breaking in and stealing my computers. That side of things is well taken care of. The psychology of how I managed to HODL them that long is interesting and I'm not sure I understand it myself. Sure there was the temptation to buy new toys but I wanted to hold onto them until the sum was meaningful i.e. pay off the mortgage. Does that make me more or less greedy? I don't know.

I had been intending to send a raw transaction, but what I actually did was to download Bitcoin Core and then the blockchain and utterly disable the internet for that computer. I then copied my private key over onto the Bitcoin Core wallet, which is encrypted, then I just sent the 50 bitcoins to myself. Given that the computer was not connected to the internet the transaction was not broadcast, so I get the transaction ID then used getrawtransaction through the console, then decoderawtransaction, to try to verify it. I still haven't sent it.

Would it make sense to send the transaction to a testnet? I'm not sure to what extent testnet mirrors the current blockchain?

I'm posting here for several reasons.The main one is that I don't want to make a silly mistake. The other is that I'm simply curious about what stopped this transaction working previously. There's something odd about those 50 btc. They show up happily on Blockchain but I couldn't recover them with other wallets. When I ran pywallet on the wallet they were in, it showed up the few bitcoins I had from bitcoin faucets but didn't show the 50 I knew were left from bitcoin mining. I wonder, only half in jest, whether that's what happened to all the MtGox bitcoins. Is this a well known bug?

Do I need to have a special wallet to receive PEG? I'm having trouble downloading it. Is there an alternative way to download a wallet to make it more accessible? I do not want to miss this opportunity.

It will be great future with pegtoken
#2018 is ours
Really amazing to join such of a great project, great team, great community, great support
Have a success all

Do you have bounty campaign?