I don´t see any mention of Exodus which is free but apparently has a good reputation.  Any comments?

Thanks for explaining. I do get the fact that the trading by the big players affects the price.  But still don't get how Govt actions unrelated to BTC affect it.  The comment that people suddenly have money etc........nobody has been given it yet, and the likes of us mortals won't be given enough to fritter it away!

Hi, why is the bitcoin price increase or decrease seemingly attributed to economic issues of the day?  A recent headline said Biden's trillion dollar package caused the price to hit 60k+.  Surely bitcoin is purely based on supply and demand isn't it? 
Thanks.

Thanks for trying to assist.  I will not reveal anything of the numbers to anyone.  I made an error above, there are 236 numbers not 256.  I don´t know if they are meant to be together or not.  There is a mix of upper case, lower case, numbers, slashes, plus symbols.  It does not start with the numbers etc as suggested above.  I counted them by hand/eyes .

Thank you for the advice, thankfully I am aware of not disclosing anything.  Yesterday I sold and got back my initial investment, so now I have the balance which will grow....so it seems.  I tend to want to play safe as I am a bad gambler.

Hi, 6 years ago a friend with whom I no longer have contact gave me a small amount of bitcoin.
I never did anything about it and do not have any reference re them.
What I since found on my laptop is a string of 256 characters labelled ´keys´
Could this be relevant to my missing bitcoin?

If so, how do I go about dealing with it? I already have some bitcoin in my wallet.

Many thanks.