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STRC's 100$ stability mechanism has a design flaw
Strive's Bitcoin Treasury Crosses 15,000 BTC After $33.9 Million Purchase
OS/umbrel on a SATA disk is possible for bitax farms.
Late Grandpa’s old HDD with Bitcoin on it from 2010. How to recover?
Help with old wallet.dat recovery? Second post on this, I have done as much research as I can in the last 24 hours and am looking for advice and help again.
Found old hard drive that possibly (hopefully!!) was from my 2014 miner - but it's pretty jacked up. Any advice is much appreciated!
Found old hard drive that possibly (hopefully!!) was from my 2014 miner - but it's pretty jacked up. Any advice is much appreciated!
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You can easily run a full bitcoin node (not to be confused with a miner) using a raspberry pi and a 1TB SSD with Umbrel software
You can easily run a full bitcoin node (not to be confused with a miner) using a raspberry pi and a 1TB SSD with Umbrel software
I just set up my first bitcoin node using Umbrel. If you can afford a raspberry pi with a 16GB+ microSD, USB to SATA cable, and a 1TB SSD, you can set one up yourself. All you have to do is follow the raspberry pi assembly manual and a 6 min YouTube tutorial on setting up Umbrel. AMA
I just set up my first bitcoin node using Umbrel. If you can afford a raspberry pi with a 16GB+ microSD, USB to SATA cable, and a 1TB SSD, you can set one up yourself. All you have to do is follow the raspberry pi assembly manual and a 6 min YouTube tutorial on setting up Umbrel. AMA
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If I understand correctly, when it hits $100 they issue new STRC shares and those get sold and the proceeds are used to buy BTC. This is the same deal with SATA. So for this whole thing to work, STRC and SATA have to be quite consistently at $100. In fact, they rarely are. So these companies are just paying out dividends and not getting anything for it.
2 interesting things I've noticed: 1. STRC still can't reach par at 12%. The weekly buybacks are keeping it above $99, but it seems to have hit a wall. 2. This is the first time I've seen SATA drop harder than STRC. Probably due to this new preferred stock. Historically, SATA has always performed better than STRC. I've just sold all my STRC. I said I would hold until Nov or until recovery (whichever comes first), and I've reached that goal.
I see Strive announced they're offering a new preferred stock that will be paying 15% dividends. What, SATA paying 13% wasn't good enough to raise money to buy BTC?
I am partially in agreement with you. The IPO will give them a bunch of cash to buy more bitcoin, however. SATS being junior to SATA means that SATA is first in line in terms of obligations, then SATS. So essentially, you're taking on more risk for an increased pay rate. If ever there was a money crunch, SATA owners would get paid before SATS owners. Right now, that risk seems minimal since they hold 18 months of payments in reserve and don't have any credit obligations, but risk is risk and nobody knows what the future holds.
Very confused by wtf their new SATS stock, and its 15% rate, means for SATA. Why, after several months of chilling at $100 with next to no volatility, would they decide to destabilize this machine by making a competing stock that ups the difficulty of maintaining that $100 par price for SATA... beyond just another "Hey let's make a third option like strategy" Feels like fixing something that ain't broke, but I don't really understand wtf SATS is as being "junior to SATA."
You could take out a loan on coinbase, buy STRC or SATA and get paid out dividends at 12-13%. That's more than enough to cover the interest accumulation on the loan. If BTC drops fast, you can always just sell some of the stock to repay the loan.
STRC and SATA are not as good as Bitcoin, but they’re pretty damn good if you want income in dollars and trust in Bitcoin. (And the companies themselves)
Idk man there’s discipline and best practices and then there’s psychology and dealing with your own weird rabbit trails. Personally, I’m in the camp it’s not too hard to eventually save $5k. A second job, a few gigs, selling some things, dropping some redundant subscriptions… can we agree $5k? So take that $5k and put it in SATA, get $2.50 every trading day, and start putting that in Bitcoin. I watched this TikTok where a young black lady did $1 a day for a year and was up 300% Suddenly you have a baseline of savings where your money is working for you. Depending on your interest rate (hopefully you don’t have variable) your actual debt is reduced by constant baked-in inflation. As dollars become more abundant, your money invested NOW is making gains while the money you must pay is getting easier to get. Suppose for instance, you took an 11% fixed loan on a vehicle where you could pay the minimum, and dumped that into something that MADE money. You’re using “not your money” to make money RIGHT NOW while also setting a future date where you know dollars will exist more readily that will cover it. Better still, take that loan and buy a miner, file an LLC. You get 100% depreciation under the one big beautiful bill, so your earnings from the machine you didn’t spend your money on are significantly tax-reduced, along with electric or maintenance. Debt isn’t that bad if you plan with it and avoid payday loans for sushi and ray bans. Hell the U.S. whole economic plan seems like it’s escaping debt by making old debt less valuable with more dollars. Up against a force like that? Get into the non-printable money ASAP, just PLAN.
It’s crystal clear to me the recipe to wealth is buy BTC, wait some years, and key life milestones are (disturbingly) less expensive. I saw a tik tok I can’t find where a lady did $1 a day for a year and was up 300% With investment in a BTC backed dividend-payer (like SATA that pays daily) a regular small contribution can begin to feel free since it doesn’t come from your paycheck (or just roll it into more).
Looks like Strategy is proposing to move STRC to daily dividends. I think it was a necessary move to compete with SATA. Will probably eventually have to meet SATA's rate also.
I bought SATA and STRC in a reputable broker. I use Fidelity, and I love the platform, although there’s other decent ones. SATA pays a daily dividend, STRC is twice a month. Over time, I’ve basically added a month of income to my year. I use the dividend from my bitcoin-backed stocks to buy Bitcoin pretty much whenever I feel like it in fidelity. Takes a day to settle the payment and then I can transfer from my stock account to my crypto account. Significant up days I’ll take a little profit, set another sell order for even higher and a bigger buy order a bit below. If I miss, I’ll just wait a bit or maybe buy some more STRC and SATA to get that income higher. If I get a big enough payout, I’ll begrudgingly buy a more aged dividend payer. They pay less, but they’re more stable by virtue of long existence. It’s a long and slow climb. I’m basically counting on 5-10 years of struggle. I may eventually back this whole operation up as an LLC with abundant mines (hosted miners) or the GoMining app (digital NFT miners) for tax breaks. Any of these carry significant risks and are worth learning and plotting the math and taxes BEFORE you enter - this is just how I roll. However, after getting settled into a rhythm with my dividends, it at least feels like free money, and I like that my inflatable bucks are working for me faster than any other rate of return I’ve seen. It would absolutely be faster to just buy bitcoin, but my $100 stock that pays me all the time is psychologically easier to cope with than putting in a hundred bucks to BTC, watching the chart, and getting heated.
SATA pays 13% tax differed paid daily in fiat that you can use to buy bitcoin
Put it in SATA instead of sitting there collecting dust - at least it’ll make much more than you can at any HYSA & you can reinvest to grow that dividend stack
Strive is a company, not a perpetual preferred stock. SATA is their preferred stock.
Buy Bitcoin and dividend payers with most of those being also bitcoin-backed, with a focus on SATA because daily play money is fun. Then I just buy whatever has the best discount that day out of the investments I have conviction in. Hopefully I’ll eventually have enough bitcoin to do loan cycling on, but also enough cash flows to balance out life. I hear about $4m is needed for retirement, but to hit my income goals with dividends it would take under half a million- inflation may wreck that plan - but probably can do that if I’m healthy and disciplined enough. Then I’ll keep Bitcoin loans as an option for when I need a good tax free cash injection.
I've lots of Alt's and a couple of memes coins, very small amount of ETH just for fees! Plenty of BTC & it's derivatives, MSTR/ASST/STRC/SATA/MSTY/BTCI/XXI/MTPLF/GNS. But that's just me. 🙄
Also, anyone who owns Bitcoin or Bitcoin related products should be fired up over his enthusiasm. He is literally buying Bitcoin with STRC, causing your bags to pump! And SATA is modeled after STRC. They are buying Bitcoin too. People should be thanking him.
SATA is humming. STRC isn't humming yet. Should be soon though.
I’m 60/40 ASST/MSTR. ASST have a good chance of outperforming MTSR (already is) this cycle. They haven’t got the capital market access like MSTR do. ASST have bought 5.5% increase BTC holdings recently. I can see the future can be bright, just imagine if they get the bigger funding via SATA. Scaling would be a lot bigger than MSTR as it’s a small company. MSTR if you want security, ASST if you are feeling bullish and wants to chase gains.
(Not financial advice) you won’t regret it! Personally I hold both, but hold 4x as much SATA as STRC
I have STRC, but I'm seriously considering switching over to SATA. STRC keeps having trouble getting back to and staying at $100
Selling the underlying asset early in retirement… oof. I’ll light a candle for the RMDs on your 401k with increasing taxes and baked in inflation. Hopefully you didn’t get lead poisoning too bad and at least buy some MSTR/STRK/SATA. I’ve seen the old folks poor houses. Seas of grey heads in wheelchairs huddled into the corner of a large room watching a single TV in silence. Terrifying.
SATA has been trading at par for quite a few days now. That's probably allowed Strive to buy some more BTC.
SATA appears to be doing a lot better than STRC.
Hah! More likely STRC recovers towards $98-$100. Then what? Market recognizes, "hmm, maybe STRC/SATA is the way to beat inflation?"
Nodes don’t lose all their work when they reboot following power failures. Battery backups are common. I don’t share all of your “third world” assumptions, but if I did then I’d argue that bandwidth would be the bottleneck not PC speed anyway. But the thing is, used PCs are still very fast and one with even 16GB of RAM lets the user allocate, say, 10GB of dbcache which dramatically reduces HDD I/O…. We agree I’m sure that storage IO is the bottleneck we are talking about and that even an inexpensive SATA SSD would make a world of difference. Not sure what that does to the budget but the point is that’s not prohibitive.
I watch them all. I keep my eye on SATA as well.
yep, BITP is going to give STRC & SATA some competition. Both have an effective AYP around 16.5% currently.
Tbh I will always keep some BTC but I have some financial goals that would require selling a decent part of it, so I’m in wait hoping for some recovery north of 100k in the next year or two. I’m more kicking myself for having bought STRC and SATA with bonus money right before it all started to crater and am now also waiting and praying that goes back closer to par
Taking SATA down with it. I wonder if MSTR will go lower than STRC. 🤣
Looks like daily dividends not working so well for SATA. Didn't lower the volatility.
If you bought at $100 a month ago to get $0.96/share/month, you obviously thought it was a good deal then, because you bought it. Now the price is lower, your average price per share is lower, so not a good time to sell as you lose money from last month principal. Plus your dividend share per month won’t cover the loss, so it’s either take a loss, or hold and let the dividend build, they’re NOT going to default on the dividends. Additionally, looking at the price today, and the dividend, it gives a much better product expectation than a month ago when it was $100! Either way, you can buy more today, increase your effective dividend return, and reduce your average somewhat. Or as a new/first time buyer your effective dividend is higher than the 11.5%, providing a very good entry point. Plus, it’s effectively better than SATA buying at this price point even though the dividend return is lower than SATA, and you have a good chance to increase your base amount through growth. Is it a risk, yes, so first you have to decide if they will default on the dividend payment, or are they going to zero, for me, very little chance either will happen 🤷♀️
Either from new issuance of SATA, new issuance of common stock or by selling from btc stack. Same as would be the case for any of the btc treasury companies. The trouble is many seem to forget the possibility of the last option but it's obviously on the table.
Where does SATA get the money for the dividend?
SATA paying 13%pa and daily dividend record date is trading at par (100). Strc which pays 11.5% and fortnightly dividend record date is now trading at a deep discount ($92). The market clearly wants saylor to hike up the dividend to at least 12.5% in order to be competetive with SATA. The going is tough for Saylor; he no longer has a monopoly.
SATA is doing great, but Microstrategy's STRC has been worse than a shitcoin.
STRC, SATA and now BMNP. These dividend paying instruments are going to be huge.
Open a Charles Schwab account. They have free ATM withdrawals and reimburse fees by the issurer. When I have extra money I buy STRC or SATA. There is nothing wrong with buying Bitcoin, if you are willing to sustain losses for years. STRC & SATA have risk but pay 11.5 -13% if that's too risky look into SWVXX.
SATA is a variable rate, BMNP is is fixed. BTC is a non-productive asset, ETH is staked and can pay for dividends forever.
SATA is daily dividend paying preferred equity from today. 13% pa.
SATA coming with daily dividend payments from June 13th. Effectively a 13.88% pa yield. Gonna be interesting. Hard to ignore that sort of cashflow even for capital that is wary of risk. I mean - even a day in and out gets you dividend. This is why time daily dividend move gives a huge boost to liquidity.
Remember the chain STRC->MSTR. MSTR has 55 billion or so and they hold 5% of bitcoin and a lot more if you consider only the float. Any sales from them will have a huge price impact and also imagine the signaling aspect of it. From there you go into leveraged assets, ETFs, 401k etc. Strive is using STRC dividends to further payout their SATA dividends etc.
That was last week when they were buying at prices $10k higher than this pre the strategy sale dip that you said was so they could buy at these cheap prices. We already spoke about this? Imagine flexing a buy they’ve already lost $25M on in a week. You really don’t understand what’s going on do you. I actually feel kinda bad. What money are they going to use to buy the dip that their mate Saylor created for them? They can’t use SATA, did you not look at the price?
[Strategy’s Michael Saylor called Strive’s SATA preferred shares “the most interesting story in Bitcoin right now,” on Friday.](https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/strives-bitcoin-backed-strategys-saylor-calls-interesting-story-in-bitcoin-right-now/cZgPOmFReY9)
Don't care. I'm not religious. I prefer dynamic thinking that adjust to real world circumstance over strict adherence to an unchanging doctrine. Bitcoin Trust ETF's like "IBIT" didn't exist in the past. MSTR used to be the only way investors could hold BTC in a brokerage account. That world is gone. The market has changed. Most Brokerages allow crypto purchases. Multiple Bitcoin Trust ETF's exist. The old rule book for MSTR and other Treasury Co.'s doesn't fit the modern market. Diluting shareholders and taking on convertible debt because you sell at a premium to NAV ain't going to work anymore. Issuing preferred equity to raise capital for BTC is a better strategy anyway. It creates a digital credit market with yielding equity assets to be used by financial firms, insurers, credit funds, retail traders, ETF's, etc... These are large pools of capital that can use money instruments like STRC, STRD, SATA, STRF, etc.. The money those pools exchange can be used by MSTR to buy BTC. Increasing BTC demand and, thus, increasing demand.
From Jun 16th, SATA is paying a daily dividend equivalent to 13.5% pa. Whatever one says about these instruments, a daily dividend is bound to attract a lot of attention. Something to be said about, getting some cash yield for any short holding period. For this reason, STRC too will likely move to twice monthly dividends. Trigger for crypto market recovery?
I'm pretty sure success for SATA means greater success for MSTR. If digital credit products like this succeed in raising capital for BTC purchases then demand for BTC will rise and the price of BTC will go with that demand. MSTR holds more BTC so they capture more of that price appreciation. Also, STRC is attempting to switch to a bi-monthly dividend. It's up for a vote.
Strive SATA is going to make news in 2 weeks for becoming the first daily dividend company in the world. I think they have a good chance of succeeding, and SATA has been trading close to par. In comparison, STRC looks weak at the moment. Microstrategy has a much bigger bank and a longer history, but dumping the reserves has spooked out the more conservative investors who prefer dividend stocks like STRC.
Unless the plan was to make the market panic so that they could load up on more BTC before the next bull run. The market for MSTR's credit instruments is massive. SATA is another comparable preferred instrument from a much smaller BTC treasury company (STRIVE). It has raised nearly $200 Million in one month on it's new preferred offering. Strategy has raised $6 Billion on it's preferred so far. People keep asking what the next catalyst will be. These credit instruments are the next catalyst.
Strategy isn't the only game in town. Strive just bought 2624 bitcoin last Friday. STRC and SATA(Strive) are starting to appeal pension investment companies more than government bonds. While they hold more risk, a small allocation ~5% doesn't massively increase the overall risk exposure of the pension investment company, but it will bring down the risk in bitcoin. I believe this will kick start the next run; more treasury competition, more demand from pension investment companies.
What exactly do you mean with arbitrage? Short STRC and long SATA?
STRC seems to be most profitable right after the ex-div. I'm not looking at $100. I'm actually looking for how far above or below the expected saw-tooth pattern STRC and SATA are. If it's close, then it's not worth the effort, but if there's a big deviation, then it's worth switching.
I'm looking at 50% extra gains for switching vs 15-20% tax reduction for LTCG. Still better to switch. SATA is particular is hitting $100 two whole weeks before ex-div. That's so ridiculous.
It's on track to reach $100 before the next ex-div date. Honestly, I think reaching $100 too early is a sign that STRC buyers are too stupid to properly arbitrage between STRC and SATA. If either hits $100 too early, it's more profitable to switch to the other until the ex-div date.
It has been common that $STRC only reaches par around the last month before ex dividend date. However, they half the frequency so we should see a faster reach of par - with less days of trading at par. Comparing to $SATA, I agree that an increase of dividend would probably reach par and ATM better than obligations are pressing.
STRC looks promising, as does SATA. Huge chunks of bitcoin have already been bought with the capital raised to date, and dividends have been paid consistently so far.
SATA and STRC are better yielding digital credit.
Grow relative to what what? The dollar? Stables depreciate just as the dollar they are pegged to. Yield you recieve will not outrun the printer. If your looking for principle protection and higher than debasement yield within the bitcoin ecosystem have a look at STRC or SATA.
Don’t forget SATA via STRIVE just announced daily dividends…
Let alone, Iran may be selling all it's Oil and the tariffs for Bitcoin, $STRC growing exponentially after people have seen it accomplish a years worth of dividend yield payouts, is eating up the remaining BTC monthly, then we have $STRC's competitor, $SATA who is using the same playbook but giving higher dividends to stay competitive, then we have $BUCK, who is buying more $STRC to yield interest on a stablecoin! The interesting part of Bitcoin is that we get to witness a new financial era be created in front of us using an asset so scarce that it's never been seen before in society. This started as an experiment and now turning into the cleansing of the Tradition Finance system. The Bitcoin supply shock is around the corner, are you positioned for it?
Not really my ‘tism is more process-oriented than emotionally-oriented. We’re in the Information Age, any process can be learned, opportunities abound and are expanding. First step to solving a problem is admitting you have one, but people that see their situation as not having enough of the problem (I.e., fiat) are not existing in the same paradigm as I am. My paradigm is that non-cash assets are going to be worth more than cash. The dollar lost $0.21 in purchasing power in just the last 5 years. The only goal for me js sustainably stacking of as much BTC or directly BTC-backed financial products as possible. Between STRC and SATA there is a nice rhythm to optimize cash flow, what can’t be reinvested directly to compound goes to buying more bitcoin in my broker. My DCA is from digital mining, there’s better tax-free options I’ve become aware of like abundant mines, which is the next goal. If I start an LLC, I can buy miners from them and because it’s tangible property I can take a full tax write off. They start at like $6k so my first $6k of bitcoin-taxed earnings would essentially be bought by the government. Yeah, Saylor is buying Bitcoin, I should be - but I’m just as susceptible to inflation as anyone else and want to cover all my bases so I’m just building it out with solid foundations. I have a reddit-assigned username, but zero actual training in economics aside from a community college business degree from forever ago. It took time, wanting to learn, YouTube, and humility to see it was my problem for not learning the systems I survive in.
1. Learn to DCA not trade. Take $1k, split it into parts eg 10 parts, and invest once a week for 10 weeks to get into the habit. 2. Take the other $1k and immediately buy $STRC and $SATA so that every month you have another $100 or so to buy more Bitcoin.
50% BTC Cold Storage 50% SATA Preferred Stock (12.75% Annual Interest - BTC treasury Company). Stock price tries to stay pegged to $100.
tldr; Strive added 317 BTC in Q1 2026, bringing its total holdings to 13,627.9 BTC valued at $948M, entering the top 10 public Bitcoin holders. Despite a Q4 2025 GAAP net loss of $393.6M due to unrealized crypto losses, the company continues Bitcoin accumulation and invested $50M in Strategy Inc. preferred stock. CEO Matthew Cole emphasized digital credit solutions via SATA tokens for stability and yield. Strive raised $257.6M through capital markets to fund Bitcoin purchases and manage debt, while analysts monitor its financial strategy and market volatility. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
SATA and STRC. Its not really crypto tho
Why not hold STRC or SATA for monthly dividend? Is HYSA better in comparison?
If I had 30k drop in my lap I'd do STRC 70% and SATA for 30% Regular cash flow from dividends then I can funnel that into a continued purchase.
Depends on your desire. I like Bitcoin-related strategies that support the ecosystem, so would further break it down by the following subcategories: Short-term life spending = Cash / USD stablecoin Long-term savings = Bitcoin / IBIT. Get actual BTC if you have self-sovereignty interests. Income = STRC or SATA or some Bitcoin-related preferred equity with dividends Investment = MSTR or other Bitcoin treasury companies
Does this mean for cash inflows, Strive currently only relies on sales of SATA?
Checking out SATA now, thanks!
Look up SATA the preferred equity by strive or some of microstrategys preferred stocks. Basically you buy this stock it pays you over 10% annually on all your money you put in which you can sell any time they will then buy bitcoin with the funds you put into the preferred to hold on their balance sheet. Gives you more back than a savings account or bonds or GIC'S ETC. Its basically taking the risk off betting on bitcoin away from the average buyer by keeping the preferred trading in a tight range. If you are genuinely curious please check it out.
>7200 rpm SATA drive Don't do this, mate. It's gonna take really long time to download and write the whole blockchain. This is from someone running a node on IDE disk. It took weeks.
Thanks. What if it's a SATA drive over USB3?
p.s. worth checking after removal that the drive is SATA, older drives were IDE.
OK, take the HDD out of the computer, get a cheap SATA/USB cable (from amazon or elsewhere) and then attach the drive to another computer. Then try to access the drive directly, this 'should' work. [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wowfast-Adapter-Compatible-Windows-Support/dp/B0F53GS7H9/](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wowfast-Adapter-Compatible-Windows-Support/dp/B0F53GS7H9/) You will likely need a powered one in its a 3.5" PC drive, as above. Best of luck.
1. Buy a IDE/SATA ISN hdd reader on ebay 2. Connect the disk 3. Boot up windows 4. Your drive should be visable as an external hdd 5. Right click on disk and quick format. 6. You have an additional 224 GB of storage. You are welcome
At first use a USB dockingstation for SATA-HDD and locking for Data.
SATA cable, and pray to god you know the password for it
I tried it on a Raspberry Pi 4 and it was painfully slow. That was just bitcoin core by itself. If you plan on running all that extra software on it, be prepared for a laggy interface. I also had an issue where the SATA to USB adapter knocked out the USB ports, even though I pasted heatsinks all over the chips on the board. I run Umbrel with Bitcoin core, Electrs, Mempool, NGINX proxy server, Pi-Hole DNS, all on an old HP Elitedesk mini PC. It will randomly spike to 25% cpu when doing something, but idles around 5-6%. Another thing to keep in mind, these PCs have variable speed fans, so they're quiet when idling. The Raspberry Pi 4 I bought didn't have a variable speed fan, so it was loud all the time. Something to keep in mind. Some info about my setup. I bought an HP Elitedesk 800 G3 on ebay with Core i5-6500 (3.2Ghz 4 core), 8GB RAM, no disk or power supply for $50. I added extra 8GB RAM ($15), new power supply ($12), and a cooling fan ($14), total cost was less than $100. I already had a 2TB Sata SSD laying around. Still under $200 if you need to purchase a disk drive. After realizing that Umbrel runs on x86 systems, I've completely abandoned Raspberry Pi as a platform for bitcoin nodes. There's better and cheaper options out there, unless you already have a Pi laying around that you want to repurpose.
Hmm you need a SATA connector which usually goes onto a motherboard so im unsure if you can do that with a laptop. There may be adaptors for that purpose
I still have .1 Bitcoin on a hard drive from those days, buying shit for the buzz of getting it through the post.It's not even SATA it's ancient.
So if I have the words, I’m all good? My HDDs are IDE and not SATA so I need to find a way to access the desktop. The old computer is missing a lot of parts 😅 I had something called RAMBUS RDram and those are not sold anymore.
Im assuming a old SATA (serial ata) hard drive? You may need to use a linux os to mount it, then image it, or at a minimum mount it read only just to search through it?
Thanks man! I’m trying to boot up the hardrive at the moment. I think it’s a little difficult . I have a IDE / SATA cable but it’s not powering energy up to either of them?
A mac is not that great, but we’ll make it work. Find a SATA or IDE to USB adapter based on whatever kind of drive it is, and connect it. If it was NTFS (windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11), it should automatically detect the drive. Then search for “wallet.dat” in the drive, let the search run. Is it a HDD? It’s possible it could have degraded, in which case head over to r/datarecovery. DO NOT MENTION BITCOIN. Delete this post. Mention instead that you have some “important files” that you would like to recover, and the files are with extension “json” and “dat”. Do NOT mention crypto. Do not let anyone take control. Do not answer random PMs except from ranked members like moderators who took your prior permission.
they have SATA and M.2 ports for however much storage you want
Yeah the adapter I have while a few years old it does SATA/IDE at USB 2 speeds.
The disks look like they still use SATA, op may not need an adapter if they have a desktop, just pop the case (may need to unplug something not in use first). A cheap usb adapter will work on the smaller drives. The larger drives may need a powered one. Everything else is spot on.
Do it with a laptop & a "3.5 inch SATA TO USB" adapter. Don't take it to a shop. This is the easiest way to create backups. Chances are the disks are fine & haven't been plugged in since you last used them... & like others are saying don't copy the whole disk just find your wallet file. The client will be an outdated version, not sure if it will be able to auto update or what if you run it straight from the drive it's installed on -> or where you copy it to. I guess search for your wallet.dat as per [Yycfitness](https://www.reddit.com/user/Yycfitness1/)1's post in the appdata/roaming folder copy it over & load it up in the current btc client
Copy & paste each disk in it's entirety to like a 2-4tb drive. Do it with a laptop & a "3.5 inch SATA TO USB" adapter. Don't take it to a shop. Everyone else is retarded, this is the easiest way to create backups. But chances are the disks are fine & haven't been plugged in since you last used them... From there, hopefully you can find your keys backed up somewhere. The client will be an outdated version, not sure if it will be able to auto update or what if you run it straight from the drive it's installed on -> or where you copy it to. I guess search for your wallet.dat as per [Yycfitness](https://www.reddit.com/user/Yycfitness1/)1's post in the appdata/roaming folder
Is there a recovery/safety advantage to using USB adapters for disks? My first instinct would be to mount them in the box for maximum SATA speed and minimal middleware fuckery.
These hard drives appear to be SATA based drives. Given the age of them and the potential worth of any funds on them, it’s crucial that you take a copy first and only work from the copies. On Amazon, you’ll be able to purchase a hard drive cloner with a source and destination slot. Get one of these and purchase 4 x drives, bigger than the original. Better to go larger than exact. If you go exact there could be some small size variations that could hinder this. Any SATA drive will be fine, ssd’s are cheap these days. Be extra careful on the slots for source and destination and make sure you clone the devices in the correct destination. After you’ve done so, put the originals somewhere safe. The cloning units, work independently but they also act as a usb hub to a computer if connected with the ish cable, therefore, once you’ve cloned you can connect the clone to your computer. Ensure your system is offline, no internet. If you need anything, use a usb key to go back and forth, for example, to transfer a copy of electrum. If you hit gold, don’t connect that system to the internet… get yourself a recognised hardware wallet like a Trezor. Set it up, use a passphrase, make multiple copies of the seed, test the recovery of the wallet thoroughly with every backup. Store the seed in different locations. Back to the offline computer, in electrum, create a transaction sending the funds to the new wallet, save the transaction to your usb drive. From another computer, you can then inspect the transaction, make sure it’s as expected and that the target address is as you’d expect. If all is good, broadcast it and enjoy! (There’s many sites that will allow you to broadcast the transaction, copy, paste, submit). Ignore all DM’s, questions should be in public. Good luck.
So it's a 50/50 split of it being either win 7 or win 8 with like 90 % of that split being win 7. The biggest problem and fear I have about it though, is I think the drive malfunctioned and I couldn't boot from it anymore. But was able to grab some data through hooking it up as secondary drive. And it has now been probably 10 years since it's been touched, with the last 4 in a storage unit.. and in a box with a mix of about 12 SATA and ide drives. All unlabeled.. So, if I am able to find what I need through all that, I. Fairly certain I never encrypted it. And had only used one of like 3 or 4 passwords for most things... All I can do is get.to looking I guess, but at least I know what to look for. Thank you!
So a hot wallet would be something like Metamask, trust wallet, phantom wallet, etc, definitely sounds like you were running an old school style wallet that would have that wallet.dat file stored in that app data folder. If that SATA drive was never formatted and is indeed the hard drive you were running windows on when you were using this wallet then the file you need should be there, but it's probably located in one of 2 places C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin - if you were running windows vista or later C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Bitcoin - if you were running windows XP or earlier. The only file you would need is the wallet.dat file. I would make a few copies, then install the wallet software on your computer, launch it, close it, go into that file path on your computer and paste in a copy of that wallet.dat file. Then when you start the wallet software again you should be able to see balances and transactions as you sync with the Blockchain. One issue you might run into is remembering the password you encrypted the wallet with when you first set it up. If you never encrypted it consider doing so after getting it restored. If you did encrypt it there are ways to brute force it but hopefully you don't need to go that route.
A windows or a hot wallet? I honestly don't know the difference. But I'm guessing it was windows. I THINK anyways. I remember installing a program to use as a wallet. I am about 117.63% certain that the drive it is on now is now the one it was on before when it was in an actual wallet, as I only bought this external m.2 in Nov last year.. I am pretty sure I do have the old sata drive it was on though. And I did just get a USB to SATA hookup to go through my old drives. So I'll give those areas a.look ad I go through them. If they still work. The utc, I think that's just a time ode thing in the filename. Uni Time Codes. Or whatever. We with the date there. I will definitely look into that file though. Thanks !