Hi there,
A time a go I did a stupid thing, I went cold turkey on mainnet without prior knowledge (should have used testnet). I registered a staking pool and not long after that retired it. Both these actions where done using online guides without full grasp of the theory (ow silly me). The situation is that when I retired the stakepool (pool1j3660wj8q4ur8lhfm9ja9grc88eqfkd57gxsqsrwheefk3pv4rr) I also unregistered the staking address of the pool owner. When retiring a pool the initial deposit of 500 ada is returned 2 epochs later on this addres, but this address was not registered anymore. Since I did not yet claim it I wonder what happend to this 500 ada. Again I am stupid and did not know what I was doing so I did not see my fault. I just recently started to see my struggle and re-registered the pool staking address associated to the pool owner to the chain (long after the initial unregistration of the pool). Now my question is, will the rewards of 500 ada still be there to be claimed? And if not, did I fund the treasure ? I already accepted that lost this 500 ada but would like to learn from the mistake, could anybody shed some light on the inner workings of the protocol?
Kind regards,
Thomas