Hey everyone,
I’m looking to get back into an old Bitcoin wallet from my mining days back in 2013-2014 with BTC Guild. I was mining with a graphics card and had payouts sent to this address: 15BMx8UbMK1dmb2eDXcjMJAXLhrMmKeSFa (that’s public, balance is about 0.05 BTC according to Blockchair).
Here are the key points:
- Mining time: 2013-2014
- Pool: BTC Guild (user ID: 97249)
- I’ve got an old email with a wallet_auth_code that starts with 8bd0****e0be2e7f84*** (blurred for privacy purposes)
- The main transaction I found: TXID a87323bed0cbb68cc6c054a3aced817fc99c0cbe5a7ef6c169a4429377f2eb45 (from May 2013, payout of 0.05025438 BTC)
- I likely used Bitcoin Core or Electrum for the wallet, but I lost my wallet.dat and can’t remember any seed phrase.
I’ve checked old computers, emails, and backups but can’t locate the private key. BTC Guild shut down in 2015, but I’m hoping Eleuthrial or someone else with old records can help verify or provide some advice.
I’ve attached a Blockchair statement PDF showing the balance and transaction history.
So, here are my questions:
1. Does anyone have a way to contact Eleuthrial? Could he check for old user data regarding payouts?
2. Any suggestions for recovery tools (like BTCRecover for passwords)?
3. Have any of you heard of similar successes from BTC Guild miners?
And please, no DMs offering "hacking services" I’m fully aware of scams. Appreciate any help you can give!
Thanks a lot,
[hai hong]
Help Needed: Recover Lost BTC Guild Wallet from 2013, User ID 97249
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hodler2019Legendary
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#2Oct 2, 2017, 02:21 PM
It is gone.
They gave many notices and your time is past to withdraw it.
gr3g.0rbitHero Member
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#3Oct 3, 2017, 07:58 AM
Recovery tools will not work without the encrypted wallet.dat file or in case of old Electrum, electrum.dat file or a significant part of your seed phrase.
Those mentioned wallets do not store those data on a server, it should be recovered from the machine where those are originally saved.
You can try your luck with a reputable "File Recovery Software" on your old computer's hard drive
but do not install it to those drives itself, use a dedicated machine with it own system drive and just mount the old drives. (clone the disk if you see fit)
If you're looking for his account, here's the link: /index.php?action=profile;u=9119 (offline since 2018)
1) Your post states you had a wallet on your account and even confirmed the transaction ID showing your funds were moved from the pool to your wallet. The pool owner can't help you at that point, you literally took your coins out of the pool's control and put them into your own wallet.
2) You need your wallet.dat file, or the equivalent for whatever software you used. Or you need the seed phrase if your wallet was generated with one. Without those, you can't recover anything.
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