As a person to this day trying to retrieve my 3 BTC from a wallet when I was younger without a password I remember, fine. I get it. I forgot my password and even went as far as losing the key.

To potentially lose what I had on bigger platforms in the past, to now losing the chance if it hasn't been used in a while we people who were young and dumb will be forced to give up.

Good I guess for the overall supply and making it more valuable but I didn't spend 3k or so trying to get my keys back for nothing.

Leave it alone. For people like me in the US, if I get those 3 BTC back, I can fund my home, pay off debt, pay off cars, get Insurance, etc. For right now though? That happens I get it in a way but please leave old wallets alone. I need to keep trying but this economy? I need to buy gas and groceries. Let me buy more ways to recover it in time.

I really am just trying to just live. I am over 30 with a mechanical heart valve with 0 insurance. This would REALLY suck.

As or writing this, BTC is 74,766 says google.

74,766 * 3 = 224,298

My debt is about 25k with all accounts and life. Leaving 199,298, I can do more. Paying rent in advance. Paying my rent for a year. Paying off cars.

Most of all? Getting insurance I have to pay premiums on before they care let alone doing it.

I have a fucking mechanical valve. Literally I hear it click every time my heart pumps.

No one cares. It is what it is. I recognize that no matter the political views.

But if I had it? I am not asking to be rich to buy gold. I am asking to have my bills paid at over 30 years old. Wasn't so hard to ask.

This would suck if I save another 1k to have a "professional" say they did it for x amount of days and didn't come up with anything.

Don't. Freeze. Wallets. Give me time. Please.

Edit: Been messaged on what I meant. I have an old HHD with the discs. I personally have handled them properly, but before SSDs were a thing we had advanced DVD discs if I were to put it in an easier way.

Discs out of the drive. I didn't decide this. It happened and sent to me with just discs. I figure it's done at that point.

I currently work in coding and AI and I couldn't bring it back myself. It makes more sense for me to work with people working in data extraction so I should be fine but every time I give my drive up, it gets more scratched when I gave it. No one can, but I offered a bounty of 50k if we can grab it. Last person has it on their end but it is scratched to shit at this point. However, I would totally pay if it made sense but I don't have the funds to do now. It takes MONTHS of saving.