Quote from: gigi0ne on October 12, 2024, 12:00:24 PM

Hello, I don't know if this is the right place here, I hope so....

I have a wallet that contains some bitcoin mined from march 2009 june 2009 by my brother.
Since they were worthless and he had changed his laptop he left everything there....
Now I found it and tried using it with version 0.95.

My problem is this, it seems that no mining transaction is entered into the blockchain even though as soon as I open it (before it updates the blockchain) it tells me I have X bitcoin and shows me all the mining transactions. I preface, it has not done any transfer operation.

I am attaching one of these mining transactions hoping you can tell me something, even just an idea to recover them.

Thank's

gettransaction "ef4fbf9cbca98540ea043c1a12b906af176b2d8a50f4dddfa10632e94a1bb748"
{
"amount" : 50.00000000,
"confirmations" : 437,
"generated" : true,
"blockhash" : "000000009df7cae8906f25033e7cd53fdb4fe04b338a94dfef8e6eda18649cc2",
"blockindex" : 0,
"blocktime" : 1243187650,
"txid" : "ef4fbf9cbca98540ea043c1a12b906af176b2d8a50f4dddfa10632e94a1bb748",
"walletconflicts" : [
],
"time" : 1243187650,
"timereceived" : 1243187650,
"details" : [
{
"account" : "",
"address" : "12bp69KNGPv3o5R8q1wbZBqAxtrv3GFS5P",
"category" : "generate",
"amount" : 50.00000000
}
],
"hex" : "01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000fffff fff0c02b229010a062f503253482fffffffff0100f2052a0100000023210353534d9d8cdd7255dc 4eeac1a2e68004c75520917b775b0655f15cf073703be8ac00000000"
}

It sounds like you might be dealing with "stale" blocks or unconfirmed transactions. In the early days of Bitcoin, some mined blocks didn’t get added to the main blockchain due to the lack of network participants, which may explain why you see the mined transactions but they aren’t showing up in the blockchain now.

A possible step is to try loading the wallet using the latest Bitcoin Core version and let it fully sync with the blockchain. Make sure to back up your wallet.dat file first! If the coins were mined back in 2009 and they are part of confirmed blocks, they should appear once the blockchain syncs properly.

If you're still having issues, you might want to reach out to a Bitcoin recovery service, but be cautious and ensure you're working with a trusted party.

Henkey

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