Quote from: nc50lc on October 01, 2018, 06:03:38 AM

Bought Bitcoin in the year 2009, doesn't seem right.

Quote from: mforno on October 01, 2018, 05:39:28 AM

So what the time stamps, could that mean that he once was mining it and didnt even realise it? or running a node?
I will ask him about the Liberty Exchange and see if that sparks his memory. Thanks for that!

Here's to rephrase the answer: Your given debug log in the OP only consists of information regarding full nodes, nothing on wallets or whatsoever.
It was used by the client, though.

Quote from: mforno on October 01, 2018, 01:32:14 AM

I have a friend who bought bitcoin in 2009 but cant remember much at all.
On his laptop there is a bitcoin folder but it is dated 2018 for when the wallet.dat was created which leads me to believe that it was made this year.

The datestamp 2018 indicates that something inside that folder was overwritten/added on the displayed date.
In your case, that was the time when you've overwritten the original wallet.dat inside that data directory.

If you still got a backup of the directory, there's still a chance to check if the wallet has bitcoins in it.
Otherwise, stop using the client until you can get a data-recovery software to recover the old (overwritten) wallet.dat to increase the chance of data recovery success (talking about the file, not the coins in it).

Oh dear, so if the wallet.dat has been overwritten then is there anyway of going back in time before that has happenned?
I am having trouble looking for old backups. Is there software out that can bring a file back that has been overwritten?

Thank's for clarifying about the timestamps.

So it was this year someone or my friend has installed the bitcoin core and happenned to overwrite the wallet.dat file by accident presumably.

mforno

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