Back when Bitcoin was like $3 or $8/pop (can't remember), I decided to start mining, ran the thing for a time, I didn't think I made much at the time and after checking a few things, I decided it was a fad that wasn't worth the electricity so I turned the miner off.
I honestly have no recollection of what I did, how I did it or what software I used. All I have are files in this folder structure:
├───blocks
│ └───index
├───chainstate
└───database
In the root, there are:
db.log
debug.log
peers.dat
wallet.dat
Any idea how to extract it to see if there's any value in there?
I'm pretty sure there ain't shit there, but who knows.
Edit:
THANK YOU. I'M IN. Thank you to /u/hteselekecnirp and /u/LevitatingCockroach for your instructions. They worked like a charm.
So, after piecing things together, I started mining bitcoin back in April of 2013 when it was going from $100 to $200 back and forth, up and down. I ran my i7 with 16GB of RAM and 2GB NVidia card on it for a few hours. There are two transactions on April 2 for 0.00001680 BTC and the next one is an hour and 25 minutes after for 0.00003280 BTC. That means I could get about 0.0000248 per 1 hour and 25 minutes, which is about 0.0000175058 BTC/hr. That would mean it would've taken me 57,123 hours just to extract one coin which means that running my PC at high processing peak power would've earned me $0.70 cents/hr today. There's no way I would've kept going at the prices they had back then.
TL,DR: I found it and there were only $2 USD worth of coin in there in total. I don't think I missed out if I had left it running based on my stoner math.
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