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Database of Lost Crypto Assets

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Somewhere in this, is my ~50K of BTC. Mined in the extremely early days, well before that first bitcoin pizza, back when people were still enthusiastically trying to decide if this whole “distributed ledger” thing was implemented correctly and just how good of an idea is it at all.

I used a 32 node OpenMosix cluster/lab to CPU mine just shy of 50K BTC one lazy semester break after finding out about this BitCoin thing and thinking “this will make a neat distributed stress test” much more interesting than just running the usual CPU benchmark toy programs. I fired it up, let the shell scripts fan it out till every core in the cluster was busy, and checked back about two weeks later when the next semester started. I made a note of the number and my shell scripts, deleted the wallet because its just useless data on my preciously small university school student home directory. I moved on with my life and completely forgot about it until recently when researching some cluster history I recalled the OpenMosix work I had done at University, the various ways I had used it, and to my temporary horror, the BitCoin benchmark.

I’ve come to think of it a bit like a failed lottery ticket or a bad bet at a casino. I had no way of knowing at the time 10 years ago, that the couple of megabytes of space these files took up, could one day be worth half a billion dollars. That’s not to say i’m 100% zen about it, it does still hurts a little to think about sometimes though.

Edit: Corrected my time window, a decade does wonders for compressing the experience of time passing, thinking about it again reminded me that the bitcoin block reward meant I must have run it over the semester break, not overnight.

Damn... and I thought I had it bad when I lost a 10 BTC bet against a UCLA football parlay.

Coincidentally, I was browsing the "Just Sold" section on Flippa this morning and came across this site: https://flippa.com/9361923-ohmycoins-xyz.

Off-topic: let's say I have a really old (~18y) two-words-smashed-together domain name that I think would probably fetch a decent price and that I've considered selling. What are some reputable sites where I could obtain a reasonably accurate "valuation" of the domain?

Basically, I'd like to get a realistic idea of what it might be worth before going through the trouble of actually trying to sell it.

Flippa is one place. Otherwise hit NameCheap marketplace and look for domains similar to yours with the same TLD and get an idea of the price.

Valuations: domainiq.com + godaddy valuations (ballpark) - https://www.godaddy.com/domain-value-appraisal

You can sell via uniregistry.com, sedo.com, or flippa.

What's the name?

Coincidence? Or this link gets posted by a brand new account and your first post in a year is how it's for sale? Doesn't sound coincidental to me.

My post states that it's already been sold. I assure you I have no affiliation with this site or domain.

Got ill, had to pay for medical care :<

Doubly depressing to see this listed under “Bad Trade”. What a first world country…

Close friend [daughter's godfather] had to sell his $BTC to pay for medical bills. He was basically homeless; forgot he owned them.

This makes me feel better about my own lost opportunity

Is this site really laggy while scrolling for anyone else?

It utilizes up to 50% CPU while scrolling according to Chromium task manager.

Have to mine those coins!

Ditdn't confirm they are mining coins, and also didn't have that problem.

Maybe it's speculatively fishing for cryptocoins and private keys in your kernel memory...

I started by reading this as the tale of one person's tumultuous trading history... which made me really concerned for this person's money.

I try not to think of the ~30 bitcoins I lost on an old drive several years ago when it was worth only a few cents per coin.

I try not to think of the ~1570 BTC I bought for $7/each and sold shortly thereafter. :/

Don't you think you would have sold them long ago anyway?

I sold my 0.5 coin at $200 and I have no regrets. I find it futile to cry over things I did because I couldn't tell the future. I'm more likely to wonder why I didn't pork up on GOOG at the IPO price, but that's no different.

I certainly would have sold some off but most likely would have held on to at least a few. I agree with your philosophy about not having regrets about past decisions.

At one point I had dogecoins that would today be worth $100k. I was mining them when it was absurdly easy to mine a ton of them.

I have no regrets, because it's effing dogecoin, and we're in a huge bubble right now. It would have made no sense for me to hold on to them because there was never any indication or reasoning for dogecoin going to nearly $0.01 per. It would have been irrational for me to hold in the hopes of the future irrational exuberance of the market.

Pretty good. A max of 100,000 Dogecoins is definitely not enough though.

schadenfreude.

the bulk of these aren't lost crypto assets - as in irreparably immovable - they just have different owners.

Beautiful. But I don't see Coinye listed.

Would like to submit my experience rage-deleting my wallet after the pre-mining shenanigans were revealed.

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