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1  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Split: How do I retrieve Bitcoin bought in 2010 on: June 09, 2022, 07:35:55 AM
I imagine its hard for people today to grasp what the bitcoin experience was like 12 years ago, so i am not surprised with some of the feedback i have seen.  A majority of people involved with bitcoin in those days just wanted to foster and grow the thing. Yes, scammers were probably around but bitcoin was  almost worthless as well...  All the information i've given so far should be sufficient for anyone "in the know" and hopefully i can connect with some of those people.

God Bless you all.
2  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Split: How do I retrieve Bitcoin bought in 2010 on: June 01, 2022, 06:06:06 AM
hi i bought bitcoin off a website in 2010. i paid using paypal, after payment the site gave me 3 things for custody of the bitcoins.
We are not bunch of magicians here you know...
You didn't wrote the name of that website you used to purchase bitcoin, but I am sure that list of words was not provided to you back in 2010.
Coming back here after twelve years, asking for help without providing any proof that this actually happened, makes me think that everything you wrote is just a bs.
Prove me wrong.

I do not have any urge to prove anyone wrong, as I mentioned before, I was merely hoping that someone familiar with what I described might be able to point me in the right direction. There were probably only a few hundred active members of this community back in 2010 that are still active now. I am no fraudster. You either know what I am talking about or you don't. Anyway I appreciate everyone's input.
3  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Split: How do I retrieve Bitcoin bought in 2010 on: May 31, 2022, 10:29:21 AM
I actually used the site about 3 or 4 times to purchase bitcoin. The number of coins were quite distinct and they are still in dormant addresses.

There was no email record of the transaction, the payment was transferred via paypal and then a wallet was created.

If you already had a wallet you had an option of having the bitcoins transferred to that wallet by inputting the word list or a private key, if not then it created the wallet and gave a list of words, a file download of the wallet and a string of characters as I mentioned in my first post.

The code that I have is for the first purchase that I made. The website created a wallet and then a few days later,  to test the whole thing, I made a smaller purchase and used the wordlist so that the coins would be in that wallet. At the time, I had no way of checking if it actually worked because i never downloaded the bitcoin program.

I made other purchases after and created new wallets,  but the records for those are long destroyed.

On the page that gave the wordlist and code string there was a thank you message and an explanation of what the to do with the wordlist and what the code was for but I did not take note of it.
4  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Split: How do I retrieve Bitcoin bought in 2010 on: May 31, 2022, 03:40:13 AM
Hi,

The 64 characters are not in hexadecimal format.

I already tried decoding as a 384 bit string. I also converted the 64 characters to hex format as a 512 bit string.checked the string hashed it, 256 512 etc....

This transaction was in 2010 so the established protocols that we have now were not widely adopted or were still in the experimental phase. I was hoping someone familiar with the site that used paypal and credit card to receive payments could help.
5  Economy / Exchanges / Split: How do I retrieve Bitcoin bought in 2010 on: May 30, 2022, 07:34:16 AM
hi i bought bitcoin off a website in 2010. i paid using paypal, after payment the site gave me 3 things for custody of the bitcoins.

1. wallet file downloaded to my computer
2. list of words
3. long character string ( 64 characters)

1 and 2 are gone, and now I have the long character string.

anyone know what to do with the string in order to retrieve the coins ?

from what i remember about the website, it said that it was run by persons active within the bitcoin community

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