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Guys about 5-6 years ago I was payed £100 for a product via bitcoin I can’t remember what the site was I used! Can anyone help? Surely there wasn’t many bitcoin accounts back then?

I have a feeling it’s bitcoin.com but they don’t have any options to login? It was a site that I used via computer not by phone app.

Thanks

I suggest you do a serious search through your email accounts (all that you used at the time) and by serious I mean serious, i.e. you can start by regular search for the registration emails, but if it fails you should look at every single email and verify if it is not the one you are looking for.

Years ago I was able to find a backup of some data that I sent to gmail and gmail later deleted the email attachements because of the change of its regulations. I was lucky the email was in the sent folder of another account with the attachement intact. I found it doing the serious search that I described above :) Good luck!

 

A product? Bitcoin is a currency.... not a product. You might have signed up at Blockchain.info {wallet provider} ...just work

through your old emails, you normally get a confirmation email with every site where you signed up. There is a site called

Bitcoin.com, but I doubt that you bought bitcoins there.  :P

Thanks guy.

Problem is I have had 7 emails since! 4 are closed down emails.

All I can do is go on every single site register every email address I have had and if I don’t get an error saying email already being used means it’s not that email.

I ment I sold some supplements to someone from the states. He asked me can he pay via coin so I followed his instructions to open a coin account and so on. Don’t have the guys email anymore.

I can remember like after a week of him sending me the money it dropped down to £0 so I thought wtf been hacked and just left it! Never signed back in. But even if the coin went to £0 it would of went back up once value of coin went up?

You have no other option but to try to find something, when it comes to bitcoin you are completely responsible to what happens to your coins, there are people that have lost millions of dollar because of their own mistakes, you need to find some sort of clue, check every email, look for old pieces of paper that you may have around, you may have written the information and you do not even remember. 

OP, if you really want to recover your bitcoin - you need to search through all your mailboxes very carefully (I meant all of emails that you're currently have) Maybe, somehow you've missed an email and that's the one you're looking for...

Anyhow, good luck and hopefully, you can find and retrieve your bitcoin :)

There is no way we can help your problem I guess. We don't know any information about you and the main information we need is where and what address did your payment transact. There is no way we can trace your BTCitcoin payment by just having your name. You need to remember what wallet you use. You still have your personal computer? If you still have it try to check history. But I'm not sure it will work. But just keep this post, maybe someone will know how to do it. Good luck mate.

I believe you didn't understand the OP's explanation. He said that he sold a product and he was paid via Bitcoin and the wallet that he used was from bitcoin.com, he didn't bought his Bitcoin from that site instead, he used it to receive the Bitcoin for payment of his product.

As for the OP, you need to back track every email you are using since then. I hope that you can retrieve it!

This is a serious problem for you and this will have a long and hard time to recover your wallet. there are few sites who hold bitcoin by that time though you need to remember that first and secondly, the hardest part is if you forget the email, username, and password. that is the worst nightmare you can have but this time and especially the private key that you must save. I think this is next to impossible if you can't remember anything on that account. sorry to say this to you but this is the reality. I'm sure that bitcoin is really huge now!

if that site is web wallet, i just know about blockchain or maybe you use exchanger site like coinbase or something?
And do you mean recover your bitcoin or your wallet account? Looks like you lose your access to your wallet account.
Depend on the coin, but i never see coin goes down to 0.
Maybe you register on exchanger site and use address on it to receive payment.

Simple describe:
- OP has received bitcoin about £100 in 5-6 years ago.
- He doesn't remember which one wallet he using at that time
- Web wallet that was created since 5-6 years ago could be localbitcoins.com, blockchain.info, coinbase.com or others exchangers
- First important about this info's are stored on email, but you didn't remember which email you using was. This can be trying by visiting those sites and using forgot password function with your email

Man is wrong and forgot. Forgetting is one of the most common human diseases that almost everyone has experienced. However, what if you forget your email password? Forgot this one will cause a bigger problem. Especially if your email contains important documents as well as important electronic mail from your relation. You should immediately find a solution to your problem as soon as possible. You should find information on how to find forgotten email passwords.

Well it is a good idea for the starters. If you can pinpoint which was the blockchain wallet provider AND what email was used for that provider, you can then try to either contact the staff of either of the two services to recover the lost account and if you succeed with any of them - you are good to go! Good luck!

So guys. I have tried 20 different bitcoin sites with all my emails and no joy!

Blockchain I cant coz there is no option to check if blockchain has my email logged as a user. When you open a blockchain account you can open like 10 with the same email. Remeber I don’t have access to my email accounts anymore they was closed down :(

So maybe it was bloody blockchain after all. I have emailed them but no reply

Also I am sure it was bitcoin.com I used. As the site looks familiar! But there is no option to log in! I can remeber logging in via email/password. I think! Was off a windows pc. Wasn’t an app! So it’s a site that you can log in from a computer without having to download an app.

Anymore advice guys? You all will get a nice fat drink if I can get your help to find my account lol

Use google history search on bitcoin wallets/exchanges or whatever? Like pick year 2012 and search for old crypto websites.

I opened the bitcoin.com webpage. They don't seem to have a log-in, all right, but they do provide a wallet via some app. What you can do is contact them and tell them you had an online wallet with them and ask them where it did go (when they discontinued the service). After they reply, your next steps would vary depending on what they reply but I think you should have the list of all your possible emails ready. Also, do you have like standard passwords you use? If so, you can list them down too. Then maybe you will need to try every email with every password.... As I said, it depends on what they reply.

If you remember that you used an email address in that site before, maybe you can search it in your email and look for that site. But as you said, no log in only that some kind of private key, try go remember that one. If not, you cannot access nor retrieve in anymore.

Definitely you might have used an email account to verify your purchase. It will be much easier if you could check your old emails. There were a few legal shopping sites accepting Bitcoin back then. One of the sites which I remember is Bitmit. There were a few others as well (unless you are referring to dark market sites).

I looked on there page mate they don’t have an option to contact them they state there not a website that you can contact or summit. Crap!

1. Bitcoin isn't a company, just like “gold” isn't a company. This means that there isn't any official website that speaks for Bitcoin, just like there isn't an official website representing gold. We just do our best to put lots of information online. We also have an active community of users who want to help people that ask questions on our forum.

sure nobody expected them to be a bitcoin representative. LOL how dumb it would be. But: they are offerring wallet services. It is currently an app, and it used to be online web service in the past. Sure there must be a way to contact them about the service they provide. When I have a free moment I'll have a look myself.

Was it an exchange? Did you give personal details to open it?

Do you remember anything about the wallet website which color was it?

Holy Bibble, this is much more interesting then the prison break's season 1  :) I am gonna follow this thread to see the result. Is he gonna be rich, is this a new bitcoin myth?

PS: I hope you find it dude and i hope it wasn't bitcoin core  ???

Once it's gone, it is gone forever. No one can help you if you don't know which wallet you stored it in.

hey you are not exactly helping here mate, so keep your negative feelings to yourself. Just to keep the OP's spirit high, there is a story of much more hopeless bitcoin recovery, which eventually succeeded: https://www.wired.com/story/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-losing-dollar30000-in-bitcoin/

Learn to comprehend. He said he was paid for a product in bitcoin. He never stated that bitcoin is the product, or that bitcoin is a product.

I am sure it was bitcoin.com. I looks familiar soon as I seen the page. All I used to open the account was an email and password. Just trying to find some way of getting on there old desktop site.

Thanks guys

Guys I got hold of the founder of bitcoin.com and he has said there has never been a bitcoin online wallet response below

Your "account" certainly wasn't with Bitcoin.com.
You will need to contact whoever your "account" was with.
I would guess blockchain.info since they are the most popular wallet in the world.
Bitcoin.com has never had an online wallet in the entire history of the domain.

Good luck!

I am sorry to hear that. I reopened your thread because as I promissed I had a look at the website and I checked that they enable you to contact them after you fill out a series of webforms confirming you are aware they don't control bitcoin in any way. As I can see, it is to no avail now.

I also think that the most reasonable webpage to have a wallet at that time in the past was blockchain.info. I encourage you to contact them again.

You should try searching your emails. spend your next weekends doing so, i hope you would find them :)

Hi there Etoboss! Most of the people who received bitcoin on those early years nearly forgotten their bitcoins until they are alarmed that the price is so high that almost the ten time from the original value back then. If you will email those company and ask if you have account in their company, the hope maybe not at your side. What I could recommend is to search for your emails, most of the wallet provider back then requires you an email address before you could signup and receive bitcoin. Frim their you could just change password then to enable or enter to your account.  ;)

That guy had the wallet on a trezor.

yes obviously he had his wallet on Trezor. Do you think I posted it without reading? It is a different story, I am not claiming it is the same. But there are similarities too - the guy had his bitcoins and then lost access to them.

Also, it is well written, it is a good read, and what is the most important: it was much more hopeless than the OP's case and the guy finally succeeded. So I posted it in the hope that it will raise the spirit of OP up.

And I wanted to argue with your negative comment "Once it's gone, it is gone forever. No one can help you if you don't know which wallet you stored it in" which has nothing to back it but some pessimistic premonition. If the author of the article I posted asked the question in bitcointalk on how to access his Trezor, you would reply "Once it's gone, it is gone forever. No one can help you if you don't remember your PIN nor the backup phrase", wouldn't you?

But the guy succeeded.

I hope the OP succeeds too. He has some good advice.

I don't have much advice to add. One thing you could do is use the Internet Archive Wayback machine to see what websites looked like years ago. It might trigger a memory. It can also eliminate websites that didn't exist back then.

https://archive.org/web/

That is why people should have a backup file or some paper on the side that has the information of the wallet.

I hope OP succeeds too. I didn't intend my post that way. The important thing is he has to figure out which wallet he stored it in.

You could send an email to the wallet provider and inquire as to whether you have account in their platform, the expectation perhaps not next to you. What I could prescribe is to scan for your messages, the majority of the wallet provider in those days requires you an email address before you could information exchange and get bitcoin. Good luck.

It's strange for me that the money (balance) has dropped to Ł0... Are you sure that the guy had not asked you to send him some key (not the public but the private), because you wrote that you were following his instructions. In that case he was able to empty the bitcoin address after a week, so it smells like a scam, or at least similar...
Hope you'll have luck and can work out a solution for yourself! At least, you'll learn a lot about bitcoin, and later that knowledge will worth more that those old coins...

It is hard for us to help you because there are hundreds of wallets online and you could have an account on any of them. So, what you need to do is to make a research on the internet to find wich wallets people talked about 5-6 years ago. Also you have to check all your emails that you know you used in the time you created you wallet. Try to search for key terms like ,,bitcoin" ,,cryptocurrencies" and other words like that because this way you will find faster the email you need.

I really wish you would find it with your passion to recover it but is really a long time and you might have lost some of its identity.
I still wish you luck in your endeavour to search for it. I guess we are learning our modern day lession. Crypto currency is a big business and it is still emerging - meaning greater financial opportunities are abounds. We have to secure our ids.

now bitcoins are very popular and many people try to earn on it want to earn money and is looking for experienced teachers. But this is very good