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Hey guys I have a question that I am sure must of been asked hundreds of times before...here goes.

In 2009 I was really interested in anything related to economics and specifically currency. I came across the whitepaper for bitcoin and after doing some reading, I decided to download the bitcoin client. I remember I was mining for weeks on end not really knowing the significance of what I was doing but was just really trying to support the idea of a virtual currency as I knew this could be the future. Around 2010 I threw my computer and all my furniture in storage and moved overseas. My computer has been sitting in storage for about 11 years now and I am going back soon to open it up and see if I still have the bitcoin client. I am not really in sync with how bitcoin operates nowadays, all i know is you either have your private keys in cold storage or hot storage. I think in 2009 my computer should hold the private keys on cold storage as there weren't any virtual wallets back then.

When I go back soon, I will attempt to recover my potential riches or perhaps cry in despair so...

I have a couple of questions.

1)What is the name of the bitcoin client that was operating in 2009? I only ask this because I tried to go to the bitcoin website and it says I need to log in. There were no accounts back then, it was just a client on my computer.

2)In the case that I formatted my computer (which i do not recall if i did or not), can I get my hard drive professionally restored saving my potential private keys to restore my coins? (I heard its an expensive process but with the use of magnets or something, you can restore your hard drive even if formatted)

3) I had a powerful graphics card in 2009, how many bitcoins can someone have mined in 2009 per day given the low amount of mining back then with a top of the line video card? ( I was mining every day for maybe a few weeks or a month)

(UPDATE)

I've been getting a lot of DM's, mostly positive some skeptical which is understandable, and alot of questions, I'd like to just clear some things up.

The reason I got into bitcoin so early was out of pure chance and curiosity. It was after the 2008 crash that lead me to have low confidence is the USD as a reserve currency. I was deeply into studying economics and I was considering Majoring in it. I was definitely not some investor that was bullish on BTC and thought I could come out of this with riches. I really just wanted to support a new idea of virtual currency and I thought the act of mining was supporting the project. If there are any OG's that are familiar with the original bitcoin client, you would remember that the mining process consisted of a little construction worker with a yellow hard hat on his head and a mining pick swinging away at some ore and a reoccurring loading bar. If I can find the original client from 2009 I might turn that into a gif, might make one heck of a NFT similar to the first twitter post that was sold as an NFT lol. I tried to google it but couldn't find any images of it.

For those that owned a PS3 at the time you might remember that there was an app on the home screen that had something similar to mining. You would run an app and it would be running a bunch of algorithms in sync with PS3 users across the globe to help cancer research for the university of I forget where. If anyone remembers this please comment.

Anyways for many reasons that I can't share online, I wont be able to travel until march but as long as I am getting my storage bills every month, I am sure my computer is safe and secure (no storage wars here folks). I will definitely update you guys in a few months.

Someone suggested I make a youtube video leading up to the moment. Cool Idea, I may do that but I would only upload the videos after I sell a BTC and hire a crap load of security lol (if I do find any)

Thanks for all those who supported me and to the skeptics, you just wait.

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