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Hi everyone :)

I previously created my wallet as a 64 character string add on blockchain.com and get WIF private keys and with a address compressed. Maybe it's like a paper wallet address
but I don't save private keys WIF
2015 or 2016 i received btc but i only saved 64 characters, i no longer save the transaction info the sender sent me.
now can i regenerate the WIF from those 64 characters at bitaddress or bitcoinpaperwallet, is it safe or i will add it to blockchain.com and get it back, or can someone give me advice , is it ready to use?.

Thank you very much.

Can you tell me what are few first characters on the 64 characters you talking about are?
It seems it won't be possible to recover since you mention Bitaddress I saw that the 64 characters are related to the private key in hex format.

So I think you can recover it if it's a hex format using bitaddress by just pasting your 64 characters under the wallet details it will show you the wif private key.

For safety, I would suggest you download the whole page of bitaddress and disconnect your device or PC to the internet before you use this tool. Make sure to open the downloaded page through incognito mode.

Blockchain.com and most wallets now only supports "WIF Private key" so if you're planning to use it, you must encode it first using the tools you've mentioned.
Take note of the security implications stated above.

Talking about safety, it's better if you can import the WIF PrvKey to an "Air-gap" PC instead since it looks like a lot of Bitcoins from 2014 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5369945.msg58386160#msg58386160).
You can check the balance and spend from it using an online computer installed with the watch-only version of the offline wallet.
You can get the address from the restored wallet in the air-gap pc.
Electrum has such feature: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-spend-from-an-offline-paper-wallet-using-electrum/ (https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-spend-from-an-offline-paper-wallet-using-electrum/) | Electrum Website (https://electrum.org/#home)

You can also do the private key conversion in the air-gap PC where it's safe from hackers, viruses and malware.
Just download the source of bitaddress, other paper wallet tool or code, then transfer it to that PC.

Wikipedia: Air-Gap (networking) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking)#:~:text=An%20air%20gap,maintain%20water%20quality.)

There aren't many ways to convert a hex private key to a WIF one without using some random online site - which is risky in itself, so you should probably open up a Python console and run this gist (https://gist.github.com/Jun-Wang-2018/3105e29e0d61ecf88530c092199371a7) to get your WIF, replacing their hex private key with yours of course.

The 64 characters (assuming it is hexadecimal characters [0-9][a-f]) is most probably the "transaction info" or the txid of the transaction you received not your private key. From early days we have used WIFs not hex to represent a human readable private key.

After you converted your hex to WIF and checked if there is any balance and failed try searching it as a txid. You can do it in your Electrum wallet (if you used it for recovering the WIF). From the top menu select Tools > Load transaction > From the blockchain. Then enter your hex here to see if it can find any tx.

@BitMaxz : it can be like a birthday along with other numbers so that 64 characters is enough, i previously created this wallet and get address but not saved WIF.
@nc50lc : maybe i will install new windows on another hard drive keep it offline and recreate WIF.
@NotATether : import it on blockchain.com is it the same as bitaddress ?
@pooya87 : transaction on it, I don't save it, it's been many years, I want to be safe first.

Thanks everyone, I created it this way before so it can be stored longer.

pooya87 doesn't believe that the string you have is a private key at all, hence the suggestion to check if it's a transaction ID instead. You can do that in Electrum like he mentioned or by using any blockchain explorer. But I don't think it's a smart thing to do just in case it's not a transaction ID after all. You don't want your private key to be entered online like that.     

What do you mean the string is like a birthday? What does it begin with?

i checked and it has no transactions, i tried transferring to another wallet 10btc but got the message of insufficient balance.
 i would like to meet one of the 20 bitcoin co-founders or bitcoin custodians today.


maybe I'll ask permission to post another post hoping for Dorian's back, because this transaction has complete by him.

Bitcoin has no custodian since it's a "decentralized digital currency" which is held by every nodes in the network.
No one is in full control of the blockchain.

If you like to contact the current developers, you can find them in Bitcoin's Repository: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors)

What did you check and how? You can't just send bitcoin from thin air. Where are those 10 BTC supposed to come from? Can you see them anywhere on a block explorer associated with an address whose private key or seed you own?

We still haven't resolved the mystery of what kind of string of characters you have. Care to tell us something more about it?

Who or what is Dorian? Dorian as the person who was believed to be Satoshi, or is this a Google translation of some kind? He was the one who sent you the coins? Even if Satoshi personally sent you bitcoin, he is not the one in possession of the private keys of the address that got funded. That is supposed to be you. You can't get additional info from the sender.

yes

Yes? Are you illiterate or something? Maybe you just have dementia as your username seems to suggest or you are trolling the forum with a made-up problem expecting something in return. Anyways, no one can help you since you don't look like you are interested in helping yourself.

it's np to do. first paste it here http://string-functions.com/string-hex.aspx if it's not in hex.

then paste result as a private key here
https://gobittest.appspot.com/PrivateKey
if it's something else than private key - well , you lose

Are you talking about a "brainwallet"??!? ???

Where you just have like a 64 character "passphrase" that you used to generate a private key and address? ??? If so, just use the "Brain Wallet" tab on bitaddress.org (https://www.bitaddress.org/). Download the .zip (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/archive/v3.3.0.zip) that is linked at the bottom of the bitaddress.org page and then run it offline.

It is not wise to enter your "secret" data into a random website on the internet, even if that website has been around for a long time or even if it looks legitimate. There are also alternative options suggested to OP that they can try if they wanted to offline or at least ran locally.