Doesn't have to be thousands of dollars. Just a thing you spent money on that turned out to be a complete waste.

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    Bitcoins are stored in a wallet file. My file got messed up. I've had this wallet.bat file for like 16 years now, just mocking me.

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    .bat? Did you mean .dat?

    I meant as in what wallet software, there are multiple talking the same protocol. Unless you mean Bitcoin Core specifically (the og).

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    Yeah. Dat file. I do mean OG bit coin. I mined it back in like 2010 when they were worth next to nothing. Like 20 cents a piece. There were no forks.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    It should be an sqlite database. The modern docs say so, I am not exactly sure if it was the case in 2010.

    Is it bigger than 0 bytes? Try opening in https://sqlitebrowser.org/ . I don't know if it uses SQLcipher (probably not), but if you are using the Windows installer you should probably tick that there just in case.

    EDIT: just a thought, if you can't get it just give it to me (not here tho, Tox F857EB6604B99A58ADD0965CEDFCBF78CF0BDF939DA7290D8D84117D8DE30C3F91B5EA9226E8), I will try some basic fuckery on it and do splitsies. It can go in these ways:

    1. Nobody gets your coins - sad
    2. I get your coins and lie - sad, but also you kinda didn't loose anything
    3. I get your coins and give you ~1BTC - bliss
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