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Title: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: joec99 on December 06, 2017, 06:05:52 PM Hello
I am trying to help out a friend who bought some bitcoin a while ago and has vague records and recollection of the details of the transaction. She has a printed piece of paper saying her wallet is with strongcoin, but when she accesses it, it says her balance is 0. Strongcoin also gives her a sheet of paper with her public address, private key encrypted and checksum. On the same paper file it seems to suggest that her bitcoin is now at multibit.com. She also seems to have a private key which corresponds to the multibit account. As multibit is no longer supported, I suggested for her to use Electrum to open up a wallet using that private key from multibit, but this doesn't seem to work as the 'Next' button in Electrum doesn't illuminate on pasting that private key. Does anyone know how she might be able to access her bitcoin? Thanks Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: cr1776 on December 06, 2017, 06:15:00 PM Hello I am trying to help out a friend who bought some bitcoin a while ago and has vague records and recollection of the details of the transaction. Does he have a wallet? Did he use an online wallet? Did he buy using a credit card? Bank account? Does he have any more info? What records? Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: cr1776 on December 06, 2017, 06:19:46 PM I'm trying to do the same for my mother...is there any way to find it with social security number or any other personal information. IT was purchased between 2006 and 2008 Thank you No, nothing like that. And if it was purchased between 2006 and 2008, it wasn’t bitcoin - the first block was mined in Jan 2009. Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: kahc on December 06, 2017, 06:37:57 PM Hello I am trying to help out a friend who bought some bitcoin a while ago and has vague records and recollection of the details of the transaction. She has a printed piece of paper saying her wallet is with strongcoin, but when she accesses it, it says her balance is 0. Strongcoin also gives her a sheet of paper with her public address, private key encrypted and checksum. On the same paper file it seems to suggest that her bitcoin is now at multibit.com. She also seems to have a private key which corresponds to the multibit account. As multibit is no longer supported, I suggested for her to use Electrum to open up a wallet using that private key from multibit, but this doesn't seem to work as the 'Next' button in Electrum doesn't illuminate on pasting that private key. Does anyone know how she might be able to access her bitcoin? Thanks Are you saying she has a encrypted version of the private key? What is the first character of her private key, and how many characters are there total? Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: LegionCoin on December 06, 2017, 06:53:19 PM Hello You can try more by using mail or other can backupI am trying to help out a friend who bought some bitcoin a while ago and has vague records and recollection of the details of the transaction. She has a printed piece of paper saying her wallet is with strongcoin, but when she accesses it, it says her balance is 0. Strongcoin also gives her a sheet of paper with her public address, private key encrypted and checksum. On the same paper file it seems to suggest that her bitcoin is now at multibit.com. She also seems to have a private key which corresponds to the multibit account. As multibit is no longer supported, I suggested for her to use Electrum to open up a wallet using that private key from multibit, but this doesn't seem to work as the 'Next' button in Electrum doesn't illuminate on pasting that private key. Does anyone know how she might be able to access her bitcoin? Thanks Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: joec99 on December 06, 2017, 06:54:47 PM First character U, total of 108 characters. The other private key she has has first character 5, 51 characters.
Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: qwk on December 06, 2017, 06:59:53 PM First character U, total of 108 characters. The other private key she has has first character 5, 51 characters. The "5, 51 characters" is most likely a Private Key WIF.You can go to bitaddress.org, better yet download that website to your computer and go offline. Then click on "Wallet Details" and insert the Key into the textbox. It'll convert it into all common formats for private keys. You can then import the private key into a wallet of your choice, e.g. Electrum. Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: joec99 on December 06, 2017, 07:16:08 PM First character U, total of 108 characters. The other private key she has has first character 5, 51 characters. The "5, 51 characters" is most likely a Private Key WIF.You can go to bitaddress.org, better yet download that website to your computer and go offline. Then click on "Wallet Details" and insert the Key into the textbox. It'll convert it into all common formats for private keys. You can then import the private key into a wallet of your choice, e.g. Electrum. I have tried importing the private key to electrum, but the balance remains at zero. Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: Madena on December 06, 2017, 07:38:24 PM Thanks...yeah she mistold me the date and it was 2011...I guess We will have to go through her old computers....her yahoo account used to go back to 2008 but now for whatever reason today it only goes back to 2014. fingers crossed it's on the old computer... thanks for the help
Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: qwk on December 06, 2017, 08:07:18 PM I have tried importing the private key to electrum, but the balance remains at zero. That means there's nothing on it.Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: kahc on December 06, 2017, 08:14:42 PM First character U, total of 108 characters. The other private key she has has first character 5, 51 characters. The "5, 51 characters" is most likely a Private Key WIF.You can go to bitaddress.org, better yet download that website to your computer and go offline. Then click on "Wallet Details" and insert the Key into the textbox. It'll convert it into all common formats for private keys. You can then import the private key into a wallet of your choice, e.g. Electrum. I have tried importing the private key to electrum, but the balance remains at zero. What is the public address(that public address that she wrote down on a sheet of paper)? If she previously bought BTC and now the balance is 0, it should show some transactions. You can check the balance on blockchain.info Title: Re: Friend bought .5 of a bitcoin in 2013 and can't access it today Post by: timisis on December 07, 2017, 02:54:00 AM Exactly, you should check the transactions first of all on the blockchain, if there is nothing there recovering the key will do you no good!
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