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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?

As long as you remember the site and your user/password, you will recover it.
However, there is no guarantee that your bitcoin is still there waiting for you. There are times that social networking websites will defunct and if that happens, even if you remember the website, your bitcoins will no longer be able to withdraw.

"Not your keys, not your coins". Unless you (installed a software and) made a wallet and received a private key (or a wallet file) I'd stop dreaming. Most probably that site doesn't exist anymore or has change and would not allow you withdraw.

There is no way you can recover it. First it was stored in the websites wallet and second they are in full control with your funds. Most probably they are already shut down and took all what you have earned before. That's the price you paid for disregarding the future use of btc. Best thing to do is to forget about it. If you happened to store it in an offline wallet then It's supposed to be possible to recover it.

If the story is a real account of a situation and the person has not yet gotten the website name after 2 years then they'll need to take other measures. Try scanning the device you were using back then. If by chance you still have it. It's possible to get the websites that we're opened that far back, hopefully the website has a forgotten password recovery process and uou remember your email you registered with.
As others have said, the chances of the bitcoins being there, or the website being active is near impossible, and if you left the Bitcoin on their web wallet, it's as good as gone

Well, chances are that after all these years the bitcoins on the faucet or whatever site you were using are totally lost. Either the site has closed all they will have seized your BTC due to inactivity or some other stupid excuse ;)

However in the off chance the site is still active and still holds your btc you may want to do a search for "bitcoin", "faucet" or something similar in your email and check what pops up in 2010 and later. Hopefully you will still have your registration email and you will find the name of the site you are looking for! They will probably have a "forgot your password" option which you can use to recover your pass...

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.

9 long years and you didn't even consider to take note about the website, you should have saved pieces of information you have used when you signed up on that website. If you totally forgot about the website, then your chances are very low to recover your bitcoin. It is hard to recover something if you don't even know yourself what you are looking for.

There is a strong probability that the site where the 100 Bitcoin can be located is already dead or gone therefore it would already be impossible to retrieve them. When a person can not remember anymore the site where digital assets can be stored then the retrieval process can not commence, this is just a very important common sense. This is the reason why one must have a book or a record of the things he has registered with, who know years from now something can come up and there is a need to review the records. Now, the lessons in this story can be applied whether one is involved in cryptocurrency or not, online or not.

It's true, it would be impossible but who knows. Maybe the website is still there and retrievable. If he may be able to remember every detailed information, he will be lucky to retrieve every piece of his funds.
But there is also a chance that the website is already dead. If this happens, no more ways to withdraw the fund and will be put to waste.

I don't know if it was a true story or is it your imagination!!!
But if you say that you registered since 2010, this means about ten years and if the site still exists and you have not entered since that time,
It means that they have deleted your account for sure because most sites delete accounts Inactive after a period of time.
So forget it.

Then there's no way for you to recover your bitcoins, simply as that.

You can't even remember the site, so I'm sure you also don't remember your wallet and obviously you don't have the private key. And do you think that the owner of that site wouldn't 'steal' that bitcoin from you?. So the chances are zero here, sorry to burst the bubble for you.

If you registered on any site you will have to confirm the email that you registered to those sites, so all you have to do it to do research on all the sites that you verified, hopefully you are not the kind that deletes messages, this will be tedious and it will take weeks, but we are talking of hundreds or more Bitcoin, so you will need to be patient on this, I have done this when I was very active on faucets.

I think this is very slim our hope to restore a site that has been almost 10 years let alone we do not remember the site that we explored in 2010, because it's quite a long time, I personally will definitely do something to restore it in How to explore the history of cloud synchronization in our cellphones, might help us get the data we explored in that year.

If it was back in 2010 and all of your Bitcoin was in the site the question is do you think that the site would still give it to you ?
Do you think that those sites  back in 2010 that is giving out free bitcoin or a faucet could still give you 100 BTC right now even if you remember the sites name?
To be honest I think that the site that you are trying to remember has been down for a long time now.

I don't think it's already possible recover btc from a ponzi website, moreover if these funds were deposited in 2010.

Click the "forgot password" button. But if you forget the password of mail or whatever you signed up with, there will not be much you can do for it. In addition, the situation of the site is another issue. The site was probably shut down a long time ago. If you have actually experienced something like this, it is best to give us more information about the site so that we can understand your situation.

Lol. I guess the simple answer is you can't. Just accept the fact that it's already something that got away from you. It's the same as the pizza that was bought in a couple of btcs around that many years ago. We didn't know back then that bitcoin would end up like this so i don't think one should feel regret over not taking bitcoin seriously when it was just starting. If the same thing would happen now with another new currency, i think most of us will still react the same way.

OP is not talking about his own experience, but maybe just imagination. Do not remember anything about site, then you cannot access or restore your BTC there.
You have to understand the problem first, he says he cant even know the site he is visiting. So the suggestion to reset the password is not the right suggestion in my opinion.

Basically, if the site is already 10 years and I'm pretty sure they've already stopped providing free bitcoin on their faucets, as long as they are not a gambling site, there's no reason for them to still continue. It is clear at this time that faucets aren't providing decent bitcoin now, and it is impossible that there are still people funding that site, so there's a huge chance that the domain is already down.

As others have said, such a site would very likely already cease to exist and any coins in such a site would be lost. OP is talking about an imaginary situation in which he/she can not even remember the name of a page on which he/she may have some BTC. Pretty pointless, and if there was such a situation, in reality, it would make no sense at all to think about it.

We can see people who are trying to recover their coins from long-time forgotten files on their PC, or deleted files. Even that is sometimes extremely difficult, although they know what and where to look.

The most important thing there is the website and the email and password you use there.
Without the website domain or without the website even being online, there is a 0% chance to recover no matter how many or how lease your bitcoin amount there.

If you singed up that site using your email then you can find that site and recover. But most of the sites give away sites gone. So there is less hope to get back your btc.
Note: If you don't have any key or seed of your coin.then that coin is not yours.because site owner can scam you.  

if the site is still alive maybe they will freeze your account or banned your account that's what happened, because we know 100 BTC at that time was not worth the price this year, I once left my first site to get free bitcoin from a roll game, after several long time I access it again, my fund is gone

What a sad story pal... I don't know whether to feel good that I ain't too early discovering bitcoin, and I don't have such experience

It's a pity when we realize that we wasted a lot of bitcoin from the past where bitcoin still wasn't that popular. And now, we're regretting everything.
For op, it would be hard for you to recover that bitcoin. A little chance or probably no change of recovering it. I mean, it was such a long time (if it's a real story). 7 years, but if the site was still alive, try remembering your account as much as possible, but if the site isn't available already, then I guess, you need to move on.

Something like your own story?

I had some forgotten bitcoin but it aint that large. Something like hundred thousands of satoshis.
Mostly it was when faucets was really hyped.
Earned it all and it redirects to another faucet website with list of where you could get some satoshis in exchange for captcha.
But there is a withdrawal fee, although it could be adjusted I already forgot them all.

You cannot do anything about it anymore since it is not yet yours until you send it to your own wallet.

lol after 7 years?and you have no wallet?just the bitcoin from the specific site?is that a exchange?or just a random site that gives away bitcoin that time?

anyway if you cannot even remember the site so what more if there are other details you need to remember.

forget it,and start accumulating bitcoin now to earn in future as you have already experienced the regret of having this wayback 2010

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

I'm not sure there's anything you can do with it. the biggest conclusion I can think of is, it's not your bitcoin anymore. even when you know the site, I can't guarantee the coin is there, even more so if it's a site that can be easily managed by its administrator.
if you come back for your bitcoin, and you believe that it is a well-known site, I think you will remember it someday. but I'm not sure that you still have bitcoin there, or that the site has become a scam, or has even been closed.
I have also remembered this story. I have a story like this, but in the end, I did not find my bitcoin there, even the transaction I did not find. so start moving forward and forget about the coin.

Most likely your site will be locked, and you will be very sorry because you lost a million dollars in BTC equivalent

I don't think there is a way to recover it, they all gone forever. And the smart thing to do with that particular situation is to forget that you have money out there and get focus for what you can do today. Thinking of that mistake will simply bothered you all the time which makes you sick.

I know it is too hard to forget it but we have nothing to do is to accept and give some room for new coming, and maybe this time we can back-up all the keys and passwords of email add that be needing just in case it happens again.

nothing can be recovered, if all your bitcoins are still on the free bitcoin-producing website. even you forget the name of the website. and if you remember that, I think the website is gone or closed. I have around 0.01BTC in the faucet, I didn't withdraw it. and finally I found the web access is not found. if you have already withdrawn it on the blockchain wallet, I hope you will remember your private key.

I think it would be hard to recover your bitcoins especially if you don't know what is the username and also the password, you will recover it when you know what email was bind to your account but if you don't know what is the email that you've been bind in your account then it would be really hard for you to recover your account as well as your bitcoins. And also if you don't know the site then it would be really hard also because you don't know what is the website that you store your bitcoins you don't know also if the website was down or not. If that's the case then it would be really impossible to recover your bitcoins.

If the site is active then it isn't a big problem to recover back the funds. Over the years there were more faucets, but now the number has decreased a lot. Some websites even with proper username and password used to show errors and won't be able to access into the account. This errors were due to the lack of update from the website.

You can still recover your bitcoin if the computer you used to to that site is still working. Sometimes your transaction or every logged in history was saved in your computer. So,it's possible to recover your bitcoin. If not then just charged it to experience and do not let your bitcoin loss again next time.

I was in the same situation 3 years ago, i remembered that i made a wallet for some faucets back in 2011 and i could'n remember it , and the way i was able to recover it is that i went back to my email and started searching all the mail that i got that includes btc in them and lucky for me i found it and i was able to recover 150$ worth of btc, i feel like that could be also applied to anything related to btc that you forgot about other than there is no other way.

I hope you just let go of the bitcoin that is on the site, because I'm sure if you can remember the name of the site and the password. Still
can't recover the bitcoin that you have on the site. Because it's been about 9 years, and I doubt if the site still exists. The problem is I'm
personally have experienced something similar to save bitcoin results from faucets, on the faucet site and after 5 years I just remembered.
Then I tried to withdraw from the site that ultimately can not attract the bitcoin that I have. Because it turns out the site is a scam.
My advice do not save our bitcoin in a long time in exchanges or wallets without regularly checking it, later we can lose the bitcoin that we store.
And it will be difficult to recover the bitcoin that we have.

This website is definitely scam or closed, 100 BTC is a great deal of money so the website wallet owner or whatever website you are storing bitcoin will definitely be interested in and they can erase everything your data to prevent you from accessing your wallet again. I used to experience this with bitcoin faucet and i returned this faucet during bitcoin bull run but it is closed ..

Gavin's faucet was about the only site that was giving coins away for free back then, so I reckon that was what you were referring to. He closed

down the faucet and I think he took back the coins that was unclaimed. I was not around when he had the faucet, so I do not know if he deposited

the coins directly into people's Bitcoin addresses or if he had some type of ledger system to keep track of the coins. If he had a ledger running in

the background, then it was not actual bitcoins. Any early adopters out there that can give us some more details?

check your email to see the name of the website account that you have verified before, then make sure the website is still active, if that is true then make sure to remember the domain that is being used because many are down and lead to phishing sites.

2010 is full of hacked faucet/hyip websites, and your chances of getting back your BTC are very small because the balance has been transacted to another wallet by the hacker.

I have also had this same fears sometime back and hence i decided to write out all my account usernames, emails and their respective passwords. I have backed this up in several other books as well and stored them somewhere very safe. You have to go the length and breadth just to keep those funds. I know so many people are cursing their stars as to the number of bitcoins they don't have private keys to.

First and foremost if the website is still in operation, it is very possible that you might not see any Bitcoin in your account if you remember your login details. It is but a waste of time to worry yourself in trying to remember the login details.  And secondly, how can it be possible that a website will give you more than 100 Bitcoin and you will still keep such amount of Bitcoin in that account?? Don't worry yourself and resources to try to retrieve and remember the name of the site, because it might not be working.

I think nothing you can do about it. But you must search on your email, word, cloud store, or any file name that could you used for saving the name of the website. If you cannot find the name with the login and the password, then you cannot do anything except let it go while you regret it. If I were you, I will withdraw all of the 100 bitcoin and save it into my computer, and I will not telling anybody.

You can look with your gmail account which site your are joining and check where you put your 100 btc, but I am not sure your site still active because many hype site never hold more than one year, but if you save your bitcoin on exchange wallet maybe still possible to recovery your bitcoin assets, check with your email and looking gmail received in 2017.

Even if you will recover your account, but i don't think your bitcoins are still there. You might have deposited it in a ponzi website and took all your bitcoins. Next time, make sure to deposit your bitcoins in a hardware wallet so you can still have more chances to regain them.

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Exactly!!! Which website will just give 100 bitcoins and make it possible for you to withdraw the bitcoin.  He should waste his time to think about the possibilities of him still having the bitcoin he claims that he had earned in his account on the website. Thanks for enlightening him on the fact that no private key not your coins. People always love to daydream forgetting that some daydreams are not worth dreaming and thinking about.

This is a possible way back before, there are faucets mainly for testing purposes that provide bitcoin in return. They are worth but now, the possibility of giving even a single bitcoin to users for free will not be possible because bitcoin today has a huge value, we can say, the reason why bitcoin is free before is that it is almost not that valuable. If we are to look at cryptos today, there's still cryptos that are free.

So you have nothing to do on this matter at the current situation, If you don't have the private keys then you don't have any authority to recover your Bitcoin, It's a simple thing but it's a look like complicated, I think you have anything to do so. most important thing is that you are not able to remember your site so how could you recover it, so you have to forget those Bitcoin. but one last try you have to do that website still working I think so you have to find your user id and password and if you could log in to your account then you may recover your Bitcoin. If you find then you are about to rich.

What the OP thinks is nothing more than parables and assumptions. We should not bother to explain it if that is not the case.
He did not answer anything about his questions and the conversation would be broader if the OP did not lock the thread or respond to user questions here.

I misunderstood this sentence, I focused on the wrong part.
If this is the case, it will be difficult to get btcs back without remembering the site. Look for every inch of your computer.

sometimes we forget the name of the site that we never open, I have had the experience of forgetting a site in the past that I once opened, I have a way to remember the site, when you register on a site it's usually required to enter an email, if you still have the email, look for the message in 2010.

That's ridicilous! How come you didn't remember the site? Or otherwise the site maybe deleted. Well, I guess there's nothing to regret about it since it was a free coins as you've mentioned. There are no money invested in the first place. Maybe its just regretful to think that you've missed the chance to get it before it disappeared. Anyway, what will be the basis to recover it?

I personally think that it depends on whether the website was legit or not, you should just try remember the name of the website and google it, If you find any results then proceed to recover your account with the email address you registered with. I assume you are referring to faucets, most didn't look legit, I am doubting they will survive from 2010 until now, also doubting chances of you recovering your 100 BTC.

We don't even know if you are talking about the wallet or website  And where did you get that 100 BTC you are claiming.
If it's stored in a wallet then you should have a phrase or private key to recover the funds if you don't have that then there is no way you can recover it unless it's online wallet then you just need to sign in your wallet.
For almost 10 years if that was  from faucet then the website don't give any more rewards that high now and the balance he forget has been use already to send rewards to other that time. If I were him I will send it to personal wallet than website. Better for him to forget about it than regretting for whole of his life , since that 100 btc is a large amount.

You have to remember where you put your bitcoin. But don't expect that you will ever recover or you will still see your massive amount of bitcoin. Because your btc is definitely going to be taken over by the website owner, it's been a long time neglected and no transaction has confirmed that it is still active. And the bad thing is that this website is closed and you will never know who the owner is.

But if it's a custodial wallet and you still know the private key or pharase seed you will definitely be able to recover it.

If you can't remember the site then there is high possibility that you don't know your username and password either so it would be hard to recover it and even if you remember the site name and log-in details there is no guarantee that your Bitcoin is still on that site because probably the site owner itself withdraw all the Bitcoin's.

I would eat lots of almond until I recall the website address and private key to access the Bitcoin. In 2010, Bitcoin worth was just few cents while in 2017 Bitcoin price was too high. I doubt site is still there and so are the Bitcoins.

Actually, there is nothing we can do about the value of bitcoin, we just only need to wait for the bitcoin to rise up again. Because bitcoin is invulnerable in terms of price we cannot change that whatever we want to. We just need patience because that is the best choice we can do, patience to hold your crypto and do not panic sell because it is maybe one of the reasons why the particular crypto is dumping. I heard that bitcoin is gonna pump this coming year, I am believing on that, I hope it will happen soon because we are all here want to earn lots of money like we used to when it reaches twenty thousand dollars(bitcoin).

The scenario that you are presenting is one in which is really difficult to recover your bitcoins, websites appear and disappear from the Internet all the time and if you did not took the time to create your own wallet and to store your private keys in a secure way then it is quite unlikely that you would be able to recover those coins after forgetting about them for seven years, for that kind of money you should try your chances but the odds are not very high.

But even if the scenario is not real it is important because it reminds ourselves that we need to take complete control of our coins because if we don't then something like that could happen and you could lose a fortune that you deserve.

The biggest thing on this live that should be owned by us is having good prejudice to the something new that just appears. As you may know, how many person who fight against bitcoin at that time? I guess it much and they will regret when they knew bitcoin at the current situation. I guess also, there are many people who believe bitcoin but they never know that bitcoin will meet a high pricr such this time and he just spent/store their bitcoin everywhere, in an unsafe place even they forgot that they have bitcoin.

But I believe if the people have a good prejudice against something new they will keep bitcoin as safe as possible and use the high security way, although they will never know that bitcoin can reach a high price as of now but at least they knew that this is new technology which can made a transaction become easy. So now, I'll bet for those who lost their bitcoin just because they have an underistimate thing they will never get a second chance to get it back.

Maybe it is depends on the site. Must be very big site that still operate until that long. And for some site, usually in certain of year our account delete from their databases. For 9 years interval i think as long you still save your email, only email which still save at least website that we register. And we can start to recover it there. For some people,lose their email account sometime not really big problem because they can create new. When actually, email is important thing for something like this.

Can anyone help me with a wallerlt.dat recovery the wallet file is from 2011 hit me on  sfoss2332@gmail.com or here please

That's seven long years later. There will be a lot of questions here. Have you not heard of Bitcoin from that particular moment on? Did you not hear even one particular news about Bitcoin in 2016 or even in 2015? Bitcoin was already popular during those years. Where were you back then? If the site is still in existence until now, try to recover your account. And then you will take the next steps from there.

That is why every action or transactions we've made should be put in a note. In my long time here in this industry I always keep saving a note where I used to sign up and the password even the username I've used on it. Remembering what website would really be a pain especially if you visit a lot of related websites. Actually, as you sign up on particular site, one of the requirement is your email so you could find what you are looking by just searching on your mail.

Well, what can I do? Buy more BTC and hold them. Sometimes make transactions or visit some online market to make BTC spin round. Yet, I'm not sure that one single man can "recover Bitcoin".

Maybe that time his busy or finding any investment that he can earn more profit. that time back in 7 years. knowledgable will only knew that bitcoin is popular. curious users are the lucky one's that find out that bitcoin will make them richer. those years are too long to remember, if you own it on the site your bitcoin has been taken. so remembering your recovery password etc. is nothing to do. just accumulate more because it's not too late to have more bitcoin. it is the only thing to recover your emotions and take away your repentance.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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  :D . 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Thanks

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.

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.

What? What will I do? The growth of BTC depends on its necessity. Blokchain technology is gaining worldwide attention. For me, some BTC and keeping it for a long time is a pleasure!

I see your comment to the OP's post is quite far from the topic, you can't recover bitcoin through explaining how blockchain technology is becoming eminent.

Going back to the topic, the chances that you can recover bitcoin through faucets is pretty low, most of the time, faucets are becoming obsolete that already don't have funds to provide as a result, they close their sites. If that happens, all your bitcoins stored in that even if you have an account will be useless.

there was one guy on the past that earned alot of bitcoin and he stored the private key and his wallet on his old computer but he have no idea that bitcoin will be worth so much now  . after knowing the price pumped up , he rush on his basement to find the old computer but he find out that he thrown in away on the garbage  . that scenario is verry simillar to us   . i think we can do anything just to recover those old bitcoins that we have left out but as long as it is  still recoverable .

I think it's better if you forget it because the site just doesn't remember you then how you can access it. and that has been happening for 9 years. I think even though you finally remember the site and also the password is not necessarily your bitcoin there. because currently bitcoin is very valuable it is possible that the site owner has taken your bitcoin. so I suggest it's better to forget and there's no point in continuing to think about something that has already been lost.

That case was very famous as well and it is a lesson for all of us, always have backups of your most important information, that way if one of you backups fail then you have nothing to worry about it since you can still recover your coins, and about this hypothetical case this should be a lesson for all of us as well, you need to store your coins locally, I know this can be difficult since you will need to take many steps to secure your coins but when you listen to stories like these you realize you have no other option.

If you store your coins in an online wallet and that site disappears then most likely you will never recover them.

If the cause is due to forgetting the website, then the possibility to get back the Bitcoin that you have will be very small. And what's more if you forget the email and password you used at the time, then you can be sure you can't get your Bitcoin back.

Unless you have private keys on a Bitcoin wallet in 2010, you can still recover even though of course it takes a long time with blockchain integration in your wallet from 2010 to the present.

How can I forget such big amount of money, and I'm sure I have so many back-up of my wallet that time. Well, this is a situational example and it is given that we should protect our money to anyone despite of limited knowledge about of bitcoin. Mate, if you have big amount of bitcoin like that then you must use all the top setting to secured that wallet, and if you forget any of your private keys then it will be hard for you to recover it and the worst scenario is that, your bitcoin is totally gone now.

It's quite difficult to solve this kind of problem as it's a matter of memory loss while losing your bitcoins that worth's almost a million dollar base on the current price but more than a million dollars last 2017.

If I were in this kind of scenario, I will do everything to recover it. First, I will check whether the computer that I use is still there and dig up it's history in case it is still there. Or I will hire some tech addict to do the digging and will give a huge reward if they can recover it.

I think its impossible to recover that because you don't even know what the site is. Or maybe for a long time you forgot also your email there i think you can not recover it. You need first remember what site it is and the second one remember what email you used when signing up there and if the email are active.
If you remember all that you can easily recover that bitcoin but once you forget one of then i told you its not easy to recover it.

When my assets investment have lower price I think holding is best way how to keep safety and get profit later, I think many investor keep patient waiting when their assets back to higher price, I don't care about how lower price drop of my assets by I keep holding my assets until price back to higher and get profit again.

It's impossible to recover because every site will definitely make regular changes to its website data.
Better to find another way to get it again somewhere else than to spend the time to recover it. ;)

2010 is quite old unless that site still operates despite all these years, all those bitcoins are probably lost. There is little to no chance that the website is still up, however you could always try. In the event that you found out it is still open, your best bet is to try and make use of the forget password option. Other websites also offer feature to find lost account's username in case you already forgot your username, however that's highly unlikely.

this is what I think. even when you remember a site that stores 100 bitcoin that you own, it doesn't guarantee whether the 100 bitcoin still exists or not. in this case, so many sites have turned into scams, even most of them are popular sites. however, you can search for sites that offer free bitcoin, or old exchangers on search engines, so you might be able to remember the name. but, don't get your hopes up with it.

You must be so lucky if you can log in to the site and found that 100 bitcoin is still there and you can be able to withdraw the bitcoin because 7 years doesn't give a guarantee for one site can online. I wonder how you would get into the right website if you don't remember the name of the website, and I think you cannot recover your bitcoin if that is the case.

Perhaps, you should forget it because that is happening for a long time ago. If you still want to search for your bitcoin on that site, you should check at your computer, open one by one of every file in your computer, and that will need time to find the file. But I am not sure that you can find the name of the site as you forget the name of the site.

I don't think there is a way to recover your bitcoin. because most likely the website has taken over the coin because you are not active on the website and that has been happening for quite a while. You also forgot about the registration email and password so I think it's impossible to access your bitcoin.
we can make this story a lesson that we must always store and remember well our keywords and wallets or the sites we use to store our bitcoins. and I suggest if making long-term investments we should save our bitcoin in a hardware wallet.

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OP probably made a mistake there and this should be a lesson to him the next time. And trying to remember or recover your lost account on a site is a kind of frustrating if you don't have a single clue where to start. I might have quit it since I don't even remember a single name for username and password. This is a lesson learn mistakes besides 2010 is not so famous about Bitcoin during that day.

When I lost my assets with increase price down I only hold and waiting when altcoin assets back to higher price and give profit for me, I think always have chance to see our assets have higher price later but waiting is not easy, mus ready more than fours weeks come and see our altcoin assets have higher price.

Name of the website doesn't matter in any way. According to what you said (in imaginary) you had bitcoins on website's account which are just numbers before withdraw.
All you can do is search for websites and if you really search, you may find url and then put that url on web.archive.org and the best you can do is to find website's contact page (email of owner) but more likely it will be email with domain's name and even your attempt to contact owner will fail. Even if you contact, what do you think, will he give a f*** to what you say?
To make it easier for you, you can't make person from dead to alive, so the same applies to your bitcoins.

And even if you could somehow contact the owner of that website that used to store your coins there is no guarantee either that they are still holding those coins and even if they are what makes anyone think that they would be very happy to give away 100 bitcoins now that they are so valuable? While the scenario is not real and it is just an imaginary one it is important for one reason, you need to be the one that store your coins if you do not then you are relying on someone else to do it for you and in this market that is a mistake.

Bitcoin was supposed to give us freedom but with freedom comes responsibility and you cannot let anyone store your bitcoins for long and expect to not lose those coins.