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Were you able to keep the wallet files well into the next decade? It was fraught with disaster back then, I read about a lot of regret.
by rolltiide 7y ago
Were you able to keep the wallet files well into the next decade? It was fraught with disaster back then, I read about a lot of regret.
- Rebelgecko 7y agoI had the opposite problem. Knowing the importance of offsite backups I had the brilliant idea of backing up my wallet.dat on Dropbox without any additional encryption. My bitcoin were only worth a few bucks, who'd bother stealing them, right? Years later, I saw that BTC had gone up in price a few orders of magnitude so I tried to load my wallet.dat and cash out. Except when I opened my wallet file, the balance was zeroed out. Oops: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-dropbox-hack-is-real/ https://www.troyhunt.com/the-dropbox-hack-is-real/
- orf 7y agoDid you ever end up tracking where and when the coins went?
- Rebelgecko 7y agoI looked at the wallet address, which looked liked it was used to slurp up BTC from a number of different sources. Didn't bother tracing it any further than that because I was so disgusted with myself for losing (potentially) thousands of dollars. Good news is that I signed up for Coinbase when they were giving out 0.1 BTC signup bonuses, so I still got to ride the wave with that. Made me feel better about writing off the BTC I mined the hard way on my Macbook Pro— better to think of it as an expensive way to learn about the importance of good passwords and 2 factor authentication :)
- wolco 7y agoSo someone internally stole them at dropbox? Did you have it shared with the public?
- Rebelgecko 7y agoNah, my guess is that whoever hacked Dropbox (or someone who bought the info from the person who hacked it) had a script to brute force passwords, then log into accounts and scan for wallet.dat files.