Found my laptop from when i first discovered bitcoin, but I never installed core on it or self-custodied on it, unfortunately.
I had high hopes looking at the desktop state when I logged in, but alas, I found no sats.
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it would have been nice to discover some long forgotten sats!
This mined millions of sats in 2012… it is indescribable how much I was just let down.
you mined, but never installed core?
I was an early coinbase user when they first started and had blockchain.info as a wallet on my phone. It was a strange time to be alive.
Core was installed on the machine I got a few months after discovering BTC. I also kept this one mining on CPU and Antminer U1s to not bog down my new work laptop, but they let us keep the old ones.
I also used cryptsy and MTGox back then to covert merge mined tokens and primecoin that I mined on a server rack in the garage.
Ironically, it has primecoin wallet installed on it.
wild times! I wish I had known about bitcoin back then
Yes and no, many people think it is a blessing, but can also be a curse. It is easy to think that everything would work out and you have a huge stack, but I mined over 150 in my garage and due to life events and poor decisions, I am not even a whole coiner.
I am still stacking, but the path from there to here is a difficult one.
