I'm not asking if someone on here sold me the coins, I'm just trying to retrace my steps, there wasn't any exchanges in 2009 they was sold peer to peer, so I'm not being childish just trying to jog my memory
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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.
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We all know what's the meaning behind this phrase and given the timeframe since you last opened it, it seems that it will be impossible for you to find it even if you will hire some few people to help you find it (which is not really advisable as they may see it without you knowing). Especially after the fact that you just wrote those keys in a piece of paper without having any duplicates in softcopy. Best of luck to you OP, hope you find it, really.
It's a serious thing but if you can't remember or access what will give you access to the wallet, then there's nothing you can do to own it back.
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.
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Wow, that would be like a never-ending job because it's been so long ago and you don't even remember which forum you bought it from. You also don't know who the person is and whether he is still alive or gone or is not playing crypto anymore.
I doubt you will find it even if you want to look for it for a few more years. Maybe you should just forget about it and consider it a valuable lesson not to be repeated. Sometimes something we take for granted can pay off big in the future, so it's best to store it well.
I doubt you will find it even if you want to look for it for a few more years. Maybe you should just forget about it and consider it a valuable lesson not to be repeated. Sometimes something we take for granted can pay off big in the future, so it's best to store it well.
If that's the only clue you have obviously there is an almost impossible chance to retrieve it but as long as you really have that bitcoins stored somewhere, you still have the chance to get it back someday. By the way, you haven't told us about the amount of bitcoins you had back then, why not share it here as well so that others might have some idea of how they will going to help you?
But honestly, the only one who can help you this time is no other than yourself because you really need those memories to put the puzzle and finally get to where you leave your bitcoins.
But honestly, the only one who can help you this time is no other than yourself because you really need those memories to put the puzzle and finally get to where you leave your bitcoins.
That's a very long time ago, I don't believe that you can get them back because once any vital information about your private key is lost it's over, if you can't remember there is nothing we can do to make you remember, one if the law of keeping Bitcoin safe is to write down your keys or keep the safe, how come you don't remember that you had Bitcoin in 2017? Because that's the year that Bitcoin start making bigger noises around the world, why now when we are in another bear market?
Bitcoin was very cheap at the time, and it could make anyone to be less serious with the private key and recovery seed, also since Bitcoin is new and there is no assurance of surviving it's easier not to take Bitcoin seriously, I don't blame you, but if you are ever going to get your Bitcoin back, it's all on you.
Bitcoin was very cheap at the time, and it could make anyone to be less serious with the private key and recovery seed, also since Bitcoin is new and there is no assurance of surviving it's easier not to take Bitcoin seriously, I don't blame you, but if you are ever going to get your Bitcoin back, it's all on you.
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
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.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
Didn't want to disappoint the OP but from what he recounted, I don't think he'll stand a chance of getting that bitcoin back. Although it is tough to buy bitcoin now compared to 10 years ago because the price has increased by thousands of percent, but I think instead of wasting time searching in vain, he should use his time to work and accumulate bitcoins from scratch. He was not the only one who threw his bitcoins in the past, a lot of people also didn't appreciate bitcoin at the time, and they spent a lot of time and money looking for it when it was of high value. But so far, I have not heard of anyone succeeding in finding their bitcoins.
What a story, huh. You found a great time to try to get it back. I'm not sure it will work out, but I wish you luck! I can get that back in 2009 BTC was new and you couldn't know that it will skyrocket, so you didn't keep your data with all security measures.
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
Losing the PC, moving from your old apartment to a new one, not remembering any sign or place you might have kept the important details is sadden because Bitcoin was way cheap during the that period, and 99% of individuals who had it never sold it, instead kept it until 2012 and 2013 when there were some good early prices. It's heartbreaking to see someone with Bitcoin but not knowing where he or she purchased or kept it. That signifies a total loss, and it is likely that no one will ever uncover it as the year progresses. 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
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. 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 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
Let's say you found the forum and possibly finds the person that sold the bitcoin to you, that will not be enough to trace your bitcoin. There was no exchange then, so you didn't buy from an exchange.
You were in charge of your bitcoin and you saved everything yourself.
Just go check pictures you took 2009 and understand the kind of electronic gadgets you had then. This could give you a clue. Am I able to help?
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.
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.
Cheers, I'll find it, I'm not gonna stop till I do 👍👍 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.
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.
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
Sarcastic 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 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.
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.
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
Sarcastic 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 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.
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.
I saw a post on a forum, I think it was 1000 bitcoin for $100, I set up the wallet, paid the seller via either bank transfer or PayPal, received the coins, saved the info and hid it (but maybe a little too well🤣).
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
Sarcastic 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 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.
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.
That would be impossible task. You should have kept them secured on multiple mediums. Since you are talking nearby 2009, CD, HDD and paper would have done the job for you.
Anyways you are not alone who lost the track of bitcoins back in 2009 or years later, there hundreds of them who did mined, bought, traded bitcoin back then and they regretted that they lost all of them. In reality we lost many millionaires to be along the way.
We have already known the craziest way people lost their bitcoin. The famous of them is James Howell, who used to mine the Bitcoin on his computer in 2009. Broke the computer so he kept the HDD with him but few years later he accidently thrown away that HDD in waste bin. He lost around 7500 bitcoins!
Read this article, its old but you will understand how far people have gone in the search of their Lost Bitcoins.
Anyways you are not alone who lost the track of bitcoins back in 2009 or years later, there hundreds of them who did mined, bought, traded bitcoin back then and they regretted that they lost all of them. In reality we lost many millionaires to be along the way.
We have already known the craziest way people lost their bitcoin. The famous of them is James Howell, who used to mine the Bitcoin on his computer in 2009. Broke the computer so he kept the HDD with him but few years later he accidently thrown away that HDD in waste bin. He lost around 7500 bitcoins!
Read this article, its old but you will understand how far people have gone in the search of their Lost Bitcoins.
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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.”
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 🤣🤣
Of course it's making you crazy if that were even true because I don't think you are actually holding that early, I mean 2009? And you just started finding your keys just two years ago after moving across few houses in the past 12 years. More than 1 decade have passed OP and even if let's say that you're assumptions were legit, I honestly doubt that you can still find it.Quote
I've only been looking for the last 2 years 🤣 so I don't mind looking for another 2 years.
Best of luck OP, hopefully that won't turn into two centuries 
Cheers mate! 
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
Everything's gone. The copy that you wrote on the paper is lost because you have moved house several times, other storage such as hard drives, flash drives, cds, dvds are also lost.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
You want us to help you remember where your lost savings are.
Try looking behind the old computer that you used at that time by opening it with a screwdriver. Maybe you keep it in the back of the computer case. Nice rumors guys.
I'm here 2017, maybe never know Bitcoin 2009.
What I know right now is that keeping Bitcoin on an exchange can make the coins disappear because the coins are theirs even though we bought them using our own money.
Keep coins in recommended wallets, so you can still retrieve your Bitcoin even if you bought it in 2009 by re-entering the key, seed phrase.
Thanks everyone, I know it's a dead loss, there's too many things against me, the email address I had was from an Internet provider but I changed in 2011 and set up a hotmail address, the provider only keeps emails on their servers for 6 months after end of contract, also this would've been the email registered on any forums.
The bank I used to make the payment has been dormant for 10 years and records only go back 7, so can't track the transaction.
The pc has gone but I made back ups which I am forever trawling through.
The purchase was made before September 2009 because I had an office in our small bedroom which we made into a nursery for my daughter born late September and I got rid of the pc and got a laptop.
I bought bitcoin on a whim, I was forever looking for opportunities online, bitcoin was pretty worthless back then so it was easy to forget about it.
The forum was an old style black background with red and green font, I know if I find the forum and post that it won't get me my investment but it might just spark a memory as to how I recorded it, I would've hid this from my wife so it's probably in a file within a file within a file with an obscure name if you know what I mean.
We've moved house a few times over the years and had a clear out everytime which doesn't help.
I'm gonna keep looking and hoping.
All the best everyone
I don't see bitcoin as a good investment today, even if it goes back to its ath its only 3x, there's more to be made in defi but the risks are higher, looking forward to the end of this bear market ready for the next bullrun
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The bank I used to make the payment has been dormant for 10 years and records only go back 7, so can't track the transaction.
The pc has gone but I made back ups which I am forever trawling through.
The purchase was made before September 2009 because I had an office in our small bedroom which we made into a nursery for my daughter born late September and I got rid of the pc and got a laptop.
I bought bitcoin on a whim, I was forever looking for opportunities online, bitcoin was pretty worthless back then so it was easy to forget about it.
The forum was an old style black background with red and green font, I know if I find the forum and post that it won't get me my investment but it might just spark a memory as to how I recorded it, I would've hid this from my wife so it's probably in a file within a file within a file with an obscure name if you know what I mean.
We've moved house a few times over the years and had a clear out everytime which doesn't help.
I'm gonna keep looking and hoping.
All the best everyone
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.
I have been very active for the past few years but in defi crypto, made 15k profits last year from 1k investment, buying new tokens at launch and selling a few days or weeks layer (sometimes just a few hours later).I don't see bitcoin as a good investment today, even if it goes back to its ath its only 3x, there's more to be made in defi but the risks are higher, looking forward to the end of this bear market ready for the next bullrun
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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.
🤣🤣 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 🤣🤣
You're talking like it's not much of a loss, but 50 pounds, but the average price at that time was something like 0.2 per coin, so that would give you around 250 BTC, making you a millionaire. Worst case scenario, you overpaid and got 100 BTC, which still makes you a millionaire.
I'll be honest here, you don't know which forum you used, who you bought it from, what accounts you had, password or email associated with the forum account...
You don't have the wallet, you don't have the private key, no password for the wallet, no .dat file... Ask any detective or a forensic guy and they'll tell you that you need at least a starting point, something to work with. You've got nothing.
Good luck, you're gonna need it
I'm not asking if someone on here sold me the coins, I'm just trying to retrace my steps, there wasn't any exchanges in 2009 they was sold peer to peer, so I'm not being childish just trying to jog my memory
Who knows while your account was created a few days ago so it will be difficult to find old traces but you are starting with a new account, but I don't know whether this story is true or not because it's been too long.If you feel that you have bought bitcoin p2p on this forum, then remember the old account and there you will know who transacted with and where to store bitcoin, in case you have a strong memory for the past.
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even if he finds the person who sold it to him, what will he do next? unable to recall the entire seed phrase after all these years, the human brain cannot do this.
even if he finds the person who sold it to him, what will he do next? unable to recall the entire seed phrase after all these years, the human brain cannot do this.
Hmm, I'm not entirely sure if seed phrases were even around back then. I'm not sure when the first HD wallet was introduced, but as far as I know they weren't around in 2009.
Well this forum could be the right place where you bought this coins, but actually it was hosted at the bitcoin.org website in 2009 and everything that was written there was archived and is not visible. To me this story sounds not very promising, since you do not remember any details about your purchase. Those would include especially:
- Username
- Amount
- Date
- Place where you bought them
BIt even if you know all of them above you will not be able to gain access to the coins. What you are looking for is a wallet.dat file, that was used in those times. There were not informations that could be written on a paper, except if you were using a singe adress to store them. Usually wallets had a wallet.dat file to put it on a flash drive.
- Username
- Amount
- Date
- Place where you bought them
BIt even if you know all of them above you will not be able to gain access to the coins. What you are looking for is a wallet.dat file, that was used in those times. There were not informations that could be written on a paper, except if you were using a singe adress to store them. Usually wallets had a wallet.dat file to put it on a flash drive.
I think this will be difficult for you to find because in 2009 only a few people already knew Bitcoin and learned about Bitcoin, so the sales that you had done at that time were difficult to track especially some of the old flatfrom was not working so transactions at that time were difficult for us to find, but you still look for information on cryoto users Maybe one of them has indeed sold Bitcoin like you did, Hopefully what you want can be achieved.
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 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 know you are kidding now. But if what you say is true, it seems that it will not be possible to trace those bitcoins, not even for the next 10 or 50 years, you will not be able to track them if only that information is all you have.
It is impossible, to be honest, theres a guy who spent millions to find his hard drive, and in 5-6 years he eventually got it just to find out the Bitcoin in it was worth $400k or something.
It's a waste of time, money, and effort. Best is to work hard and get a job or start a business and then DCA into Bitcoin. Good Luck.
It's a waste of time, money, and effort. Best is to work hard and get a job or start a business and then DCA into Bitcoin. Good Luck.
Sorry but if you know you bought them from a forum user somehow you should have an account that is not this current forum member. Try to recover the account and you will find your old posts.
OP said, he bought bitcoin from a forum post but was not sure which forum, he didn't say bitcointalk forum. from what he said, I don't see any small chance of getting his bitcoins back. even if he finds the person who sold it to him, what will he do next? unable to recall the entire seed phrase after all these years, the human brain cannot do this.
But he says he bought bitcoins from a link in the forum (and I thought he was registered, maybe he was browsing as a guest...?) but he doesn't say he has to recover the seed but that he has to trace the transaction... which I don't know for what it could be useful but that's the request.
I'm not asking if someone on here sold me the coins, I'm just trying to retrace my steps, there wasn't any exchanges in 2009 they was sold peer to peer, so I'm not being childish just trying to jog my memory
OP, this story is not clear.As you mentioned, Bitcoin was relatively new back in 2009, though I'm not sure if that was early or late that year. Because peer-to-peer transactions require people to be familiar with Bitcoin wallets in order to send Bitcoin to one another, which wallet did you use to receive your Bitcoin? Because, as stated in the original content, you are looking for a location to save your Bitcoin, which I believe you mean your wallet private key, so that you can access your Bitcoin.
That's a very long time ago, OP. Supposing your story is true and you spent 50 quid for some Bitcoin, you must have tens of thousands of coins. That should be worth hundreds of millions of dollars today. Indeed, that's worth all the efforts to try recover them. No stone should be left unturned.
Anyway, you must have used an email when you signed up to that forum? Try to recover that also. You might find some old confirmation messages from that forum.
But I still wonder how you could possibly retrieve those coins even if you recovered everything save for your keys.
Anyway, you must have used an email when you signed up to that forum? Try to recover that also. You might find some old confirmation messages from that forum.
But I still wonder how you could possibly retrieve those coins even if you recovered everything save for your keys.
Sorry but if you know you bought them from a forum user somehow you should have an account that is not this current forum member. Try to recover the account and you will find your old posts.
OP said, he bought bitcoin from a forum post but was not sure which forum, he didn't say bitcointalk forum. from what he said, I don't see any small chance of getting his bitcoins back. even if he finds the person who sold it to him, what will he do next? unable to recall the entire seed phrase after all these years, the human brain cannot do this.
Better to just go back to your sleep, because you are no longer of this age, how come you have gone off since 2009 and just I'm coming alive now after such a long time?
This is most impossible thing to do right now because the time-space has really been too long and you won't even have a record of where the coins are stored because even though you get the acclaimed seller from that forum, you still do not have any guarantee of getting those coins back since you bought and transferred those coins to your personal wallet at that time.
This is most impossible thing to do right now because the time-space has really been too long and you won't even have a record of where the coins are stored because even though you get the acclaimed seller from that forum, you still do not have any guarantee of getting those coins back since you bought and transferred those coins to your personal wallet at that time.
Are you talking about this old forum
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/welcome-to-the-new-bitcoin-forum-5
I do not know if there is someone selling Bitcoin on that time since you can easily earn those Bitcoin by running a full node and mine it with your PC.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/welcome-to-the-new-bitcoin-forum-5
I do not know if there is someone selling Bitcoin on that time since you can easily earn those Bitcoin by running a full node and mine it with your PC.
wow legendary threads with legendary people in this forum, are they all still active, in this forum,
OP: years 2009 -2023 a long time ago it's hard to remember if you don't have an accurate memory in your brain, especially since you remembered it 2 years ago, my advice is to forget your memories because it's hard to remember
It looks like he's one among the early investor on bitcoin. The white paper got published on 2008 and came to usage during the year 2009. Op have bought it on the same year, almost 14 years passed and now he had remembered the buying. Anyhow its ones own ability to search and find. As most people have suggested, lost the key and it's lost forever. It is his sole right to go find it same as what an IT guy have been doing with some agreement with the city council to search the trash dump for three years spending $11m.
The quest to find $181 million in bitcoin buried in a dump
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Since 2009?
I heard that the price of bitcoin pumped in 2013, it also pumped in 2017/2018, and finally 2020/2021, how come it is just 2 years ago that you started looking for bitcoin you bought way back 2009??, I kind of having a hard time believing you, did you forget you bought bitcoin in 2009, and only got to remember 2 years ago? And forgetting where you bought the bitcoin from is also unbelievable..
Anyways, doesn't matter what I believe or not believe, the fact is, if you already lost your keys, you've lost your bitcoins, if you left it on a centralized system or a custodial wallet after purchase, rest assured you made somebody somewhere super rich and i wish it was me 😔.
I heard that the price of bitcoin pumped in 2013, it also pumped in 2017/2018, and finally 2020/2021, how come it is just 2 years ago that you started looking for bitcoin you bought way back 2009??, I kind of having a hard time believing you, did you forget you bought bitcoin in 2009, and only got to remember 2 years ago? And forgetting where you bought the bitcoin from is also unbelievable..
Anyways, doesn't matter what I believe or not believe, the fact is, if you already lost your keys, you've lost your bitcoins, if you left it on a centralized system or a custodial wallet after purchase, rest assured you made somebody somewhere super rich and i wish it was me 😔.
Sorry, but it seems lost forever. 2009 was already long enough especially since you transferred to different houses. It is really true that we can only give importance to any stuffs when it becomes valuable. It's like a lost opportunity. I remember there were faucets before that are now worth some dollars per claim. If I knew bitcoin would be as valuable as today, I would've put all my money into it.
What we can do now is to take advantage of its price while it is still low compared to its ATH. Still very very far from the 2009 price but at least profit is profit and more realistic.
What we can do now is to take advantage of its price while it is still low compared to its ATH. Still very very far from the 2009 price but at least profit is profit and more realistic.
I'm not asking if someone on here sold me the coins, I'm just trying to retrace my steps, there wasn't any exchanges in 2009 they was sold peer to peer, so I'm not being childish just trying to jog my memory
So you just want to find out what transactions you've been doing for a long time? I'm not sure there were quite several forums you were in at that time, but you saw some interactions you had in the past with other members. maybe it will take a longer time.
I only know this forum, and it so happened that when I found out about Bitcoin, there were already several exchanges that could help me to own Bitcoin.
good luck getting what you're looking for. it's a very long transaction. unfortunately, it will take longer for you to find it.
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.
Am sorry if you bought the bitcoin into a cold storage that gives you access to the private keys, then you have to find those keys to unlock your bitcoin on the blockchain irrespective of the device used as lobg as you have the private keys, but if you cant get it then you may have to get it, also if the bitcoin was bought and stored on a centralized exchange wallet, then try to remember the password abd email address used for the hot wallet to have access to the bitcoin provided that the exchange is not gone down already by now.
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Hahaha! You have a great sense of humor!
I'm not sure what your investment portfolio looked like in 2009, but it's safe to say that Bitcoin wasn't a part of it at the time.
Hello all, I am trying to track a bitcoin purchase I made in 2009, <...>
Hahaha! You have a great sense of humor!
I'm not sure what your investment portfolio looked like in 2009, but it's safe to say that Bitcoin wasn't a part of it at the time.
Sorry but if you know you bought them from a forum user somehow you should have an account that is not this current forum member. Try to recover the account and you will find your old posts.
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 don't think you can get that your lost coins again because the memory lost and the lost of all the trackable means is too high. Even you find out the site the person sold his coins at that time. The site the person used might not the same with yours. Now if you can remember any of the old sites that were selling and buying bitcoin then you can make some traces from that angle. But asking people in the forum to tell your if they have sell bitcoin in that year is looked like childish. You can even google them to know if there was any existing exchange platform in bitcoin since 2009. Or you can restructure the clause to suit your taste. Most of the platforms that were selling and buying bitcoin in those days of 2009 to 2011 are no more. They have been replace with smart exchange. And since there is no trance, remembrance and knowledge about the whole stuff will be very hard to recovered. And you are the only person who can find it out if it is possible. But I don't think it will be possible. You can cognitively remember the forums you used at that time and if not then forget about the coins.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
If like research : you can visit this https://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/boards/index.php
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 don't think you can get that your lost coins again because the memory lost and the lost of all the trackable means is too high. Even you find out the site the person sold his coins at that time. The site the person used might not the same with yours. Now if you can remember any of the old sites that were selling and buying bitcoin then you can make some traces from that angle. But asking people in the forum to tell your if they have sell bitcoin in that year is looked like childish. You can even google them to know if there was any existing exchange platform in bitcoin since 2009. Or you can restructure the clause to suit your taste. Most of the platforms that were selling and buying bitcoin in those days of 2009 to 2011 are no more. They have been replace with smart exchange. And since there is no trance, remembrance and knowledge about the whole stuff will be very hard to recovered. And you are the only person who can find it out if it is possible. But I don't think it will be possible. You can cognitively remember the forums you used at that time and if not then forget about the coins.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
If like research : you can visit this https://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/boards/index.php
I'm not asking if someone on here sold me the coins, I'm just trying to retrace my steps, there wasn't any exchanges in 2009 they was sold peer to peer, so I'm not being childish just trying to jog my memory
I saw in year of 2009 bitcoin price was 0.0001$ gradually Bitcoin come in this position. It was bit challenge to survive. But Bitcoin overcome all situation. Now bitcoin well established. For bitcoin now created thousands of coin and token. Who bought bitcoin in 2009 or near thats years and hold that bitcoin he now well established. And he changed his life i think. Then only some person buy bitcoin and they are huge profited. I think even now who are buying bitcoin and holding they will huge profited there has no doubt.
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 don't think you can get that your lost coins again because the memory lost and the lost of all the trackable means is too high. Even you find out the site the person sold his coins at that time. The site the person used might not the same with yours. Now if you can remember any of the old sites that were selling and buying bitcoin then you can make some traces from that angle. But asking people in the forum to tell your if they have sell bitcoin in that year is looked like childish. You can even google them to know if there was any existing exchange platform in bitcoin since 2009. Or you can restructure the clause to suit your taste. Most of the platforms that were selling and buying bitcoin in those days of 2009 to 2011 are no more. They have been replace with smart exchange. And since there is no trance, remembrance and knowledge about the whole stuff will be very hard to recovered. And you are the only person who can find it out if it is possible. But I don't think it will be possible. You can cognitively remember the forums you used at that time and if not then forget about the coins.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
If like research : you can visit this https://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/boards/index.php
Are you talking about this old forum
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/welcome-to-the-new-bitcoin-forum-5
I do not know if there is someone selling Bitcoin on that time since you can easily earn those Bitcoin by running a full node and mine it with your PC.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/welcome-to-the-new-bitcoin-forum-5
I do not know if there is someone selling Bitcoin on that time since you can easily earn those Bitcoin by running a full node and mine it with your PC.
🤣🤣 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 🤣🤣
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
Sarcastic 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 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.
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 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
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