I found this old Bitcoin app from 2009 and wanna see if it still works. Anyone know how to get it running? I have it saved on Windows 7, last accessed through a VM on the same. Pretty sure the original files are from XP or Vista. I even have a block with a signature. Would love to use at least one for my family. Help, please?
It’s not the app you need, but the data folder it created back in 2009. That’s where you’d find the wallet.dat file, the real deal. Check out %appdata%/roaming/bitcoin on your Win7 system. If you find wallet.dat, back it up ASAP.
Thanks for the tip, but I didn’t find any wallet.dat files. This is way before that era. More like when coins were saved in something called coins.cc. I didn’t rename anything for security reasons, just in case someone got into my machine and was snooping.
I thought the first Bitcoin software always had a wallet.dat file from day one. But I could be wrong since I joined the scene in 2011. That’s what nc50lc was hinting at. Also,.cc files usually mean C++ code, right? Any comments in your code that explain its purpose?
Coins.cc? Never heard of that site. No mention of it here or anywhere else. Even Google doesn’t show much. If wallet.dat was around in 2009 and you can't find it, chances are you might not recover anything.
All the info about addresses and coins should be in that app. It predates wallet.dat, so transactions had to happen a different way. I haven’t done any transactions since before the wallet.dat days. Might be stuck with raw transactions unless I can create a QT interface to manage my coins like before. Don’t wanna sift through 20k addresses, just one would be great, lol.
What do you mean by that? The original Bitcoin client started the whole blockchain thing and already used wallet.dat for storing those early block rewards. Are you suggesting those first blocks were mined by different software?
Good luck finding buyers for Bitcoin priced 100-200x market value. If you’re talking about the Genesis block, does that mean you’re claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto?
Block 2 probably wasn’t mined by that so-called Patoshi. Since the public key is out there due to the P2PK coinbase transaction, you could sign a Bitcoin message to prove you own it. But honestly, I doubt anyone would believe you unless you show you have the private key.
When you sign it, include the current date and time. It adds weight to your claim. Plus, we have no clue about your skills with private keys. For anything valuable, handle them securely and offline. Boot a verified Linux live image that only runs in RAM, and make sure to keep it offline while you deal with sensitive keys. Stay safe!