What Will You Do To Recover Bitcoin? - page 2.

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Quote from: Newchanka on November 12, 2019, 03:26:43 AM

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

Back in 2010 there probably no sites that gave you bitcoins to store in an online account. There were faucets that gave out 5 BTC but those coins were sent to an address that was probably on a full node or SPV client, meaning that you held the keys. Back then the mentality was that you were responsible for your private keys.

This situation is purely hypothetical.

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Quote from: hatshepsut93 on November 12, 2019, 03:58:21 AM

I was in a similar situation a few years ago, and I failed to recover the coins despite trying everything I could. I received some altcoins as a bonus for my work and forgot about them. Later during the 2017 bubble the price of those coins skyrocketed, and I tried to access them, but couldn't find the wallet file on my computer. I used hard drive recovery tools and found some wallet.dat file, but it was corrupt and couldn't be opened. Looking at hex dump, it looks like large parts of it were already overwritten by other data.

So, generally recovery will either be very easy if you have the right password and wallet, or effectively impossible.

No, what you need is the seed words for each wallet, nothing else.

You are supposed to write those seed words down when you create the wallet, and store them in a very secure place. Preferably then make another copy with your own hands and store that paper in another, physically separate secure place.

If you fail to do that, you are bound to lose your coins. Neither the password no the wallet backup are important, the seed words can regenerate the wallet, anywhere, passwordless. The password is simply something to keep the wallet encrypted while in use, or someone casually using it while you go a moment away from your desktop. Its not needed to recover access to it as long as you keep those words.

The older wallets wouldn't show you the seed words but could export the privkey, which when printed, could more or less achieve the same. But that is much easier to steal, so it has fallen in disuse. No one should be directly handling private keys, only seed words.

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If you still remember the site and still remember Gmail when you list, then you can research the password to get the login access again. The important site is still active to open.

How :

1. Open website
2. Click Forgot Password
3. Browse Gmail when you sign up for password research
4. Login to gmail get password research link.
5. Click the link then fill in the new password.
6. Try signing in again.
7. Done

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after you check one email at a time based on that year, you only find website links that are no longer active. I didn't read a single comment that managed to access it again, it's all the same. The normal procedure is still using password recovery because at that time many accounts did not use private keys, only the asset reedem model on the website account was used.

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If we are going to be positive, there is still a way to recover those bitcoin of yours if, you still use the same device when you signed in in that website that you were saying, check your browser's history (please don't tell me you like browsing in incognito) otherwise, it is all lost, time to move on and start to work to earn bitcoins rather than wondering about the past and reminiscing.

You've got almost the same scenario of a guy who paid 1,000 bitcoin for a slice of pizza.

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Quote from: Newchanka on November 12, 2019, 03:26:43 AM

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

Lol, when I first heard that bitcoin was giving away thousand and millions of dollars to anyone that has held it before for a long time, and I was not sure if I ever bought as at the time I heard of bitcoin, because I must tell you that I really heard of bitcoin in 2010 too which I never paid much attention to even when they were giving it out free.

When I heard of bitcoin later, the first thing that I did was to start searching my mail to see if I have any related email to cryptocurrency or most of these Ponzi sites that I have joined before of which you must have surely link some to your email, so email is still the best bet for you to search through to see if you have participated in any of those projects, if you are not the type that threw a paper wallet away then.

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If you were able to buy 100 BTC it had to be before 2013 or earlier than that. My logic is simple. In 2013 Bitcoin was worth $300 for most of the year and later it was only more and more expensive. 100 bitcoin in 2013 would be at least 30k USD so nobody would forget that kind of money.
If you forgot about it after leaving it on some site that site was a pool or blockchain.com wallet, maybe an exchange but there were almost no exchanges at that time and BitcoinMarket and MtGox are long gone. Maybe you can remind yourself if it was an exchange or a pool at least. If you bought or earned the coins.

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Quote from: Newchanka on November 12, 2019, 03:26:43 AM

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

First thing, we must have a record in all sites that we've been registered but I'm doubted if you have these things cause you can't even recognize which site it is. From this certain scenario, I don't see a way to recover it cause you have nothing to look by and even just a hint still don't have. Ut is better to forget that 100BTC and move to another story of your crypto life. And consider this mistake as a sort of learning and knows the importance of having back-up records of all important files.

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And you think the site will be soo kind enough to still keep your btc after such a long period of time has passed. even if you remember your password and username, there is a possibility that this site is no longer in existence, after seen price value of btc in 2017, i don't think the site will be willing to release such amount of btc, so better forget the idea of btc.

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Quote from: imstillthebest on November 14, 2019, 01:39:47 PM

story seems verry familiar and all of us here can relate . in my case i dont discover btc/crypto on the year 2010 because on that time i am still on school . many years have passed until i heard the word crypto/bitcoin on one forum and faucet were alreay trendy on that time but like many others , i forgot my acount because i think btc is worthless since its value is freakin cheap . i regret that much . there is no way to recover my account because i lost the email and the number linked to it

There are two possible happen on your bitcoin stored on a forgettable website. First, probably the website was shut down already and secondly, it will never recover because of email lost and also the number linked into it. Well, you are very lucky if you can still recover your Bitcoin after 7 years passed because there are some web wallet sites are upgrading and probably deleting inactive accounts. That's why always adviseable to store bitcoin in a hardware wallet and keep safe the private and password.

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story seems verry familiar and all of us here can relate . in my case i dont discover btc/crypto on the year 2010 because on that time i am still on school . many years have passed until i heard the word crypto/bitcoin on one forum and faucet were alreay trendy on that time but like many others , i forgot my acount because i think btc is worthless since its value is freakin cheap . i regret that much . there is no way to recover my account because i lost the email and the number linked to it

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While you still remember your private key or any password associated with that site, your wallet will remain secure if the site still exists and you still remember it and have access to your account.
If not, you can only let it go.

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Quote from: Krislaw on November 12, 2019, 08:05:52 AM

Quote from: Newchanka on November 12, 2019, 03:26:43 AM

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up.

A balance on a site is just virtual until it sits in your wallet. Not your keys, not your wallet.

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How would you recover your BTC?

There might be no way to locate such website again because most websites that gave free bitcoin during that time are gone.
Just accept your fate and move on because the biggest mistake you made was leaving it on website.

here i have interesting short story , i was so dumb in 2013 bought 10 bitcoin for 60 usd each .

found a site that basically it was ponzi offering me to double my bitcoin in no time by sending to certain address , try it out for 1 bitcoin and successfully make it 2 in the next day , really amazed and repeat it several times but guess i successfully withdrawn 2 bitcoin while actually i have sent more than 5 bitcoin and get held there until now lol i have tried to tracing back the site in 2015 and of course they are disappeared haha

the good old dark days Cheesy

. it was really fun experience, in that cases you should not take it seriously. there is a lot of free bitcoin events in the past and they are already gone , pretty simple to solve it, forget everything.

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Your login details, as well as the website information, is really necessary for you to recover your Bitcoins. You're responsible for it so you have to be mindful of every single login detail that you have including your private keys. 100Bitcoins is a huge amount at this time so try to remember the details that you need but if you couldn't remember it, just try to find ways to earn again.

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Quote from: Newchanka on November 12, 2019, 03:26:43 AM

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

If you can't remember your login for the platform then its gone for good but i bet if you have up to 100 bitcoin on a website the people who owned the website would have taken it out already

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A lot already gave their suggestions on how to recover it. Just like them, as much as possible, I will try to recover and remember my account. But if I really can't, then I guess I'll have to start over again. Start again with bitcoin, learn my lesson, and work so even if I can't recover my bitcoin, at least I can earn the same amount of money again. There are more opportunities now with bitcoin unlike before, so there's more ways to earn bitcoin.

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Quote from: coinfinger on November 14, 2019, 08:18:32 AM

Quote from: Newchanka on November 12, 2019, 03:26:43 AM

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

You don't even remember the site, so why then do you talk about recovering it? There is no way you can recover your bitcoin if you don't know the site where it is stored and even if you do know the site, you will need your username and password to access your account on that site. So you should just forget about it and look for something else to do and earn bitcoin because as for going to get those coins, it's not going to work out.

The best thing you can do us to remember the site, and if possible that you still have your history from then on your browser you can scroll it up to that year and start checking for the site. But, I know for sure that most sites we had then no longer function now. I know one good faucet that used to be around back then and paying a high number of Sats, around 2017 when there was a bull run they stopped functioning and closed the site.

Well, for the OP, I think it is time for him to move on now, there's still ways for him to earn Bitcoin, if he will put himself in jail for the past history with the fact that he had Bitcoin, then his focus will be there, and he can't move forward and will lose the days that he should have the opportunity to earn. Life has not ended yet, so he must move on with it.

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You can't have any access to that site until you remember the name of site and then you need to fill the credentials with your username and password which you can't figure out. So let it go and beleive me by this time that site must have vanished or even if it is present it wouldn't let you to withdraw that much amount so stop dreaming of all this.

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Quote from: Newchanka on November 12, 2019, 03:26:43 AM

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

You don't even remember the site, so why then do you talk about recovering it? There is no way you can recover your bitcoin if you don't know the site where it is stored and even if you do know the site, you will need your username and password to access your account on that site. So you should just forget about it and look for something else to do and earn bitcoin because as for going to get those coins, it's not going to work out.

The best thing you can do us to remember the site, and if possible that you still have your history from then on your browser you can scroll it up to that year and start checking for the site. But, I know for sure that most sites we had then no longer function now. I know one good faucet that used to be around back then and paying a high number of Sats, around 2017 when there was a bull run they stopped functioning and closed the site.

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If that happens which mean more than 7 years after register on those sites so it's normal if we don't remember anymore the name of those sites but i personally will never regret it because possibly those sites will disappears because never been access anymore and basically it's free coins so i didn't spend money to buy it and it won't be a problem for me and i can move on from it

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