Hi! I mined some ETH around 2018 but I haven't touched it in a long time and I haven't been following the developments around ETH for a while. I started looking into it recently and was wondering if anybody has up to date advice on how best to recover the funds in my account?
I found a backup folder on my PC that has a binary file starting with "UTC–" and also a doc where I had just saved a long hex value in it. I think the hex value is the wallet address which I used to access with nanopool, so I looked it up on etherscan and can see it still has some value in it. Is there anything else that I need? If a password is needed to decrypt the binary file, I'm not sure if I remember what that is, but if possible I could try to guess a few passwords I used to use…
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Step 1….Don’t answer ANY DM’S offering help.
The file labeled “UTC” is likely an Ethereum keystore file in JSON format, which contains your encrypted private key. To recover your ETH, you need to import this file into an Ethereum wallet application using the original password you used when the file was created.