Topic: Bitcoin from 2009 (Read 468 times)

OP, this story is not clear.

Even if you search for thousands of years like this, you will never find your bitcoins.  To find your bitcoins you must find your private keys.  If you can't find the keys, you no longer own the wallet.You won't get your bitcoins back if you find the website though.  This is the most impossible thing to do at the moment because now it is 2023, the number of Bitcoin investors has increased a lot.It would not be possible to really trace out a record of where the coins were stored in such a long period of time.  You better come back from these activities.

When you bought Bitcoin in 2009 you should have collected important papers and kept them. But in 2009 the value of Bitcoin was not so much that you did not take care of it and lost the important papers where you left them. but since you said you have moved your house from one place to another several times, I think you might not be able to find your important papers. If you don't look for your lost papers but search which forum you bought them from you might find them. Your complete steps will definitely require you to work harder so you can rest assured that you can always find success.

Hello all, I am trying to track a bitcoin purchase I made in 2009, I no longer have the pc I used, I wrote the details on some paper and stored it but we've moved house a few times and it might have gone missing,  I have looked on every hard drive, flash drive, cd, dvd etc but to no avail so far.
I bought it off a forum post but I can't remember which forum. Did anyone sell bitcoin in 2009 and if so which forums did you use, I am trying to retrace my steps in the hope it jogs my memory,  I've only been looking for the last 2 years 🤣 so I don't mind looking for another 2 years.
Cheers

Hello all, I am trying to track a bitcoin purchase I made in 2009, I no longer have the pc I used, I wrote the details on some paper and stored it but we've moved house a few times and it might have gone missing,  I have looked on every hard drive, flash drive, cd, dvd etc but to no avail so far.
I bought it off a forum post but I can't remember which forum. Did anyone sell bitcoin in 2009 and if so which forums did you use, I am trying to retrace my steps in the hope it jogs my memory,  I've only been looking for the last 2 years 🤣 so I don't mind looking for another 2 years.
Cheers

Hello all, I am trying to track a bitcoin purchase I made in 2009, I no longer have the pc I used, I wrote the details on some paper and stored it but we've moved house a few times and it might have gone missing,  I have looked on every hard drive, flash drive, cd, dvd etc but to no avail so far.
I bought it off a forum post but I can't remember which forum. Did anyone sell bitcoin in 2009 and if so which forums did you use, I am trying to retrace my steps in the hope it jogs my memory,  I've only been looking for the last 2 years 🤣 so I don't mind looking for another 2 years.
Cheers

I want to try to think positively in this case even though I'm a little doubtful. because if that's true, you're one of the many people who were here from the beginning which of course it's been a while.
But on the other hand I also agree with some of the people mentioned here. If you lose the key, it will be lost forever, nothing will change from that, so it doesn't matter how you look for it or on any forum, as long as you don't have your key, it will never be recovered and all you have to do is be sincere.

I want to try to think positively in this case even though I'm a little doubtful. because if that's true, you're one of the many people who were here from the beginning which of course it's been a while.
But on the other hand I also agree with some of the people mentioned here. If you lose the key, it will be lost forever, nothing will change from that, so it doesn't matter how you look for it or on any forum, as long as you don't have your key, it will never be recovered and all you have to do is be sincere.

Even if he is being sarcastic, that is not what he is implying with this. He is asking for the person who sold him the Bitcoins so that he can trace back his steps which might lead him to something, and the seller will obviously not give him his private key to the wallet or his Bitcoins back which is what you are taking this towards I think.

To OP, if you've lost track, I'm pretty sure you won't be able to find the buyer and even if you do, if you've lost the paper that had the details of your wallet, you have already lost your Bitcoins and there is no way you can recover them unless you have the details saved somewhere else as well and you reach that place somehow.

Even if he is being sarcastic, that is not what he is implying with this. He is asking for the person who sold him the Bitcoins so that he can trace back his steps which might lead him to something, and the seller will obviously not give him his private key to the wallet or his Bitcoins back which is what you are taking this towards I think.

To OP, if you've lost track, I'm pretty sure you won't be able to find the buyer and even if you do, if you've lost the paper that had the details of your wallet, you have already lost your Bitcoins and there is no way you can recover them unless you have the details saved somewhere else as well and you reach that place somehow.

Sarcastic  i am also looking for the Lamborghini i parked in the Dezard twenty years ago, i have last compass and i am looking for whoever picked a Lambo in the desert before in their entire life, i am ready to search for infinity.

Ops not your keys, not your Bitcoin, if you can't find your private keys, you no longer own the wallet.

1. One person has been trying to search a toxic landfill
James Howell, an IT worker in the United Kingdom, began mining bitcoin on his personal laptop in 2009. The Telegraph reports that his computer broke in 2013 but he kept the hard drive in case bitcoin became valuable one day. It did.

While cleaning his home that year, he mistakenly put the drive into a waste bin at his local landfill site in Newport, South Wales, where it got buried.

Now, with bitcoin’s value hovering just above $15,000, Howell’s 7,500 lost bitcoins are worth more than $117 million (as of Thursday afternoon).

The U.K. resident wants to try searching the landfill, which reportedly has 350,000 tons of waste, but the Newport City Council won’t allow it.

According to tech website Wired, the landfill is not open to the public and trespassing would be considered a criminal offense.

And even if the drive were recovered, it likely would no longer work after being exposed to heavy and potentially toxic waste for so long.

2. Investors are undergoing hypnotherapy
Many early Bitcoin investors are in a painful predicament. They can’t remember the complex security codes they originally created to gain access to their Bitcoin wallet. Plus, there’s no way to reset the password if you forget, reports Fortune and The Wall Street Journal.

But there’s hope on the horizon. South Carolina hypnotist James Miller has recently begun helping people recall forgotten passwords and find misplaced storage devices.

“I’ve developed a collection of techniques,” he tells the newspaper, “that allow people to access older memories or see things they’ve put away in a stashed spot.”

Miller charges one bitcoin plus 5 percent of the amount recovered for his services, although he says his rates are flexible.

3. Man hacks his Bitcoin vault
Former Wired editor Mark Frauenfelder wrote his password on an orange piece of paper in January 2017. In March, he and his wife jetted off to Tokyo for vacation. A month after returning from vacation, he noticed his orange slip was nowhere to be found. The house cleaner he hired while on vacation had apparently thrown away the piece of paper.

Unperturbed, he typed in the password from memory and received this message: Wrong PIN entered.

After three more fruitless tries, a countdown timer appeared on the screen, which made him wait a few seconds before he could try another PIN.

However, the delay doubled every time the wrong PIN was entered. From April to August, Frauenfelder tried hacking into his vault, to no avail.

One day, he received an email from the vault’s manufacturer explaining that the security was being updated. Per the email, there was a security vulnerability within the vault system that needed fixing. Frauenfelder reached out to a bitcoin expert who put him in contact with a 15-year-old coding whiz who could give him video instructions on how to exploit the vulnerability and hack the vault.

After agreeing to pay the teenager the equivalent of $3,700 in bitcoin, he received instructions that would hack his computer and show him the password.

“Following Saleem’s instructions, I copied a string of text,” he writes for Wired. “The PIN appeared instantly. Months of soul-crushing anxiety fell away like big clods of mud that had been clinging to my shoulders.”

🤣🤣 I know that lad, I'll get there in the end, I only spent 50 quid so not that bad but its doing my head in 🤣🤣

I've only been looking for the last 2 years 🤣 so I don't mind looking for another 2 years.

Hello all, I am trying to track a bitcoin purchase I made in 2009, I no longer have the pc I used, I wrote the details on some paper and stored it but we've moved house a few times and it might have gone missing,  I have looked on every hard drive, flash drive, cd, dvd etc but to no avail so far.
I bought it off a forum post but I can't remember which forum. Did anyone sell bitcoin in 2009 and if so which forums did you use, I am trying to retrace my steps in the hope it jogs my memory,  I've only been looking for the last 2 years 🤣 so I don't mind looking for another 2 years.
Cheers

OP seems to regret the bitcoins he bought in 2009. But with searching like this being hopeless, you won't stand a chance of finding your bitcoins. Instead, why not take the time to accumulate bitcoin now? I think what you are doing is just a waste of time.