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Or, like me, literally deleted my wallet with 100 ish coins in 'cos I couldn't be bothered finding a USB key.

I though 'oh I'll just mine a few more next week' when I get my new laptop (!!! mining on cpu).

Narrator: He forgot about it.

If you still have the old machine, it's not impossible that the deleted wallet is still on the disk and could be recovered using some sort of undelete tool.

Good thinking. I'll be happy to supply expertise recovering data from old disk images if this is the case :-)

I had something like 20 coins, but it was on a secondary computer that didn’t have backups and was long since recycled. You can believe I spent a few hours digging through all my backups to find the wallet back in 2017... ah well.

Or they lost it all in the Mt. Gox hack... sobs quietly

Or they did what I did - spent it. At the peak I would have had $8 million before taxes had I not turned it into cash to pay for the electricity my CPU was burning to mine it.

Oh well. Good thing I actually enjoy my current job.