Found an old bitcoin wallet on one of my old HDDs - what software should I use?

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Many year back when I first heard of Bitcoin I decided to give the mining program a go and made a few coins. As the coins were basically worthless at the time I quickly gave up and moved on. Now the prices are ridiculous I went ahead and started looking for my old wallet in the dozen or so old HDDs I have lying around and I think I may have found my old wallet. The wallet was last modified in June of 2011 so I'm reasonably confident it's the right one.

I downloaded Bitcoin Core but it wants to download several hundred gigabytes of transaction history. Is there any other software I can use that doesn't need the transaction history? If there are coins in this wallet I want to convert them into cash asap before the market collapses.

[Aide]

Hey it's me your brother. I forgot to log out of my email. Send me your IP. So I can RDP in.

[sp]Wow hundreds of gigs for transactions[/sp]

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Electrum is telling me it's not a private key. Keep looking I guess.

[AkujiTheSniper]

You'd probably be better off downloading the history, assuming you got a lot of bitcoins. Congratulations to you if you struck it rich!

[sp]Rip small dumbass me who sold all of his 3.41 BTC for only 60 bucks[/sp]

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Okay, no luck so far. Found two bitcoin addresses, I'm hoping I didn't fuck up all those years ago and stash the address instead of the private key.

I have a few more drives lying about I'll dig out of the shed tomorrow morning.

[tratzzz]

I just read about it yesterday.

As far as I know, you only have to update the blockchain to 2011, unless somebody has paid you after that too.

That means, you only have to download like 5GB.

[mkultra2018]

Oh boy, this just reminded me to check if I have any old wallets laying around. I remember when I used to mine on slushpool and I had at least half a bitcoin but I can't remember the username or password.

[BatHands]

[QUOTE=OmTheory;52940595]Oh boy, this just reminded me to check if I have any old wallets laying around. I remember when I used to mine on slushpool and I had at least half a bitcoin but I can't remember the username or password.[/QUOTE]

Whip out that rainbow table and start crackin'!

[rhx123]

[QUOTE=OmTheory;52940595]Oh boy, this just reminded me to check if I have any old wallets laying around. I remember when I used to mine on slushpool and I had at least half a bitcoin but I can't remember the username or password.[/QUOTE]

I'm in the same situation on slushes, the pain is real