Every five years I go through old backups looking for wallets that might have money in them. And every five years I realize that was a total waste of time cause I’m looking through the same backups that were empty five years ago.
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Haha
Well, someone might’ve accidentally sent bitcoin to the wrong address, and it ends up in your wallet.
That happened to me once in 2017
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i’m always looking at mine to see where they are—because i left increments in them that’re so small, when i was just trying to start, that it’s not enough to move them to another wallet 😆
If you've never vibe coded a script that slides byte by byte over a disk or image, assuming there's a wallet dat file or a raw key somewhere in there, maybe password encrypted with a phrase you can't recall.......
..well, you wouldn't understand. 🤣
Why not automate on the read-only side?
I did…. Five years ago. Now I lost that script.
I check and double check then delete old wallets (measure twice, cut once). If I missed anything, then supply reduction to fellow bitcoiners 😉
I do this too. Last round I started deleting the backups that were empty