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Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by kimcheekumquat »

Do you remember your password?

From the Ethereum presale message:

    You are about to make an ether purchase. Please keep the attached wallet file safe. It will serve as a cryptographic receipt of your purchase, along with your password.

    The password you created and entered on the sale site is the key to your ether so please do not forget it. And please note: there are no mechanisms in place that will enable the Ethereum team to help you recover a lost password. Once it is lost, your purchased ether will be permanently inaccessible.

Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by aws_ls »

cybernano wrote: post #74

Contact Ethereum Foundation on their website email, tell them your email address it was sent to and get them to resend you your UTC.json file

Great suggestion. Also the OP may cross post this on https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/

Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by joshstrange »

meowface wrote: post #59
iamatworknow wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back around the summer of 2010 I decided to play around a little bit with Bitcoin mining while I was looking for a job after college. For a couple of weeks I let the computer mine and accumulated what amounted to pocket change, then gave up and forgot about it. I've spent many hours over the past year or so digging through old burned backup CDs, DVDs, and hard drives trying to find the wallet, with no luck so far. Ma…

If it makes you feel better, unless you had a good GPU, what you earned might not have been worth more than a few thousand dollars (at current BTC prices). Though the difficulty was certainly much less in 2010, so who knows.

I mined 100BTC on my CPU in like the summer of 2010 solo mining. I attempted to do GPU mining but the tooling was very specific at the time and I wasn't really that interested. I didn't even fully understand BTC at the time past "Digital Currency", "Proof of work", "Run minner = get BTC". I want to say the block size was 50 at the time so mining 2 block all on mine own on a CPU was pretty impressive IMHO.

Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by iamatworknow »

joshstrange wrote: post #76
meowface wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it makes you feel better, unless you had a good GPU, what you earned might not have been worth more than a few thousand dollars (at current BTC prices). Though the difficulty was certainly much less in 2010, so who knows.

I mined 100BTC on my CPU in like the summer of 2010 solo mining. I attempted to do GPU mining but the tooling was very specific at the time and I wasn't really that interested. I didn't even fully understand BTC at the time past "Digital Currency", "Proof of work", "Run minner = get BTC". I want to say the block size was 50 at the time so mining 2 block all on mine own on a CPU was pretty impressive IMHO.

That's basically the state I was at as well. My exact thought was something like, "A currency that you make by running a program like 'Folding@Home'? Might as well try."

Even if I didn't actually mine a ton, it still would be neat to find it. I know it's gotta be there somewhere.

Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by kpxxx3 »

The past is the past, but what you want might to reflect on is your current judgement and how it is being driven by emotion and not thinking. Say your email/wallet can be recovered. If you don't know the contents, then really there is absolutely no reason why anybody that attempts to find it should not simply keep their mouth shut, mix the coin and trade it. In fact, the safest options for the other party are to: do nothing, anonymously trade the coin (which you would never know)... well down that list is talking to you for a wide variety of reasons. You have absolutely no leverage (unless this is of course a complete ruse for some other experiment), why do you think you do? You might want to think about that. It will help you in your future financial endeavors.
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