old private key

[MPEARTH]

I have what I believe is an old BTC private key 17 blocks x 4 or 68 alphanumeric characters all in capitals creation date 03.06.2011. How do I view or import this to see if I have nay BTC inside?

[HCP]

That doesn't sound like a private key... The only formats that I know of are:

Private Key WIF:
51 characters base58, starts with a '5'
5HwVta1hpYkNRTRbJVEmiVEyKKV3ZVqY7Tmmn62udYqpjDrYsct

Private Key WIF Compressed:
52 characters base58, starts with a 'K' or 'L'
KwmYWci7As8RYwdYQBdnN7efZranJSHEKXAce1DRJKYVfCtjFYVa

Private Key Hexadecimal Format (64 characters [0-9A-F]):
10604F9F1D4DBB24EE7D1E07BFA649DC1539996D603B5A87109EAEA9F3F053C6

Private Key Base64 (44 characters):
EGBPnx1NuyTufR4Hv6ZJ3BU5mW1gO1qHEJ6uqfPwU8Y=


Did you remember if you ever used a wallet called "Armory" at all? It *might* be an Armory "Root Key", although I think that should be 18 groups of 4 chars...

[MPEARTH]

Thanks for the information,

I was playing around with BTC back in early June 2011 and lost interest. I found this code which I must have copied and paste from a website back then into a word doc so thought maybe it was relevant but I guess not to be.

[jackg]

Thanks for the information,

I was playing around with BTC back in early June 2011 and lost interest. I found this code which I must have copied and paste from a website back then into a word doc so thought maybe it was relevant but I guess not to be.

Could you state the first character anyways, usually if it's something then the format will be given by the first character. But as HCP states, it's probably nothing.

[cr1776]

Thanks for the information,

I was playing around with BTC back in early June 2011 and lost interest. I found this code which I must have copied and paste from a website back then into a word doc so thought maybe it was relevant but I guess not to be.

Don’t delete it until you are sure.  As above, what is the first character?

[MPEARTH]

Hi,

First letter is K in upper case as typed here.

[jackg]

Hi,

First letter is K in upper case as typed here.

Is there a chance you've tried to encrypt it somehow.

Take the first 58 characters and convert it to an address to see if there's anything in it.
Also, try taking out immediate repeating digits and see if that gives anything.

[Abdussamad]

It's an armory wallet backup. Who does it belong to?

[HeRetiK]

Maybe an old 2FA key backup? Some sites use pretty long 2FA keys.

It's an armory wallet backup. Who does it belong to?

Armory wallet root keys are 18 x 4 characters, lowercase, no numbers, which doesn't quite fit OP's description.

[jackg]

Maybe an old 2FA key backup? Some sites use pretty long 2FA keys.

It's an armory wallet backup. Who does it belong to?

Armory wallet root keys are 18 x 4 characters, lowercase, no numbers, which doesn't quite fit OP's description.

From a bit of googling CoinDesk state multisig didn't come in until 2014 (presumably lots of people got hacked with the 2013 price spike, which, until recently was the highest we'd seen the price of bitcoin go).
Also, i thought multisig gives there private keys, not one long one but i may be wrong on that.

[Abdussamad]

Could be a blockchain.info uuid. Not sure whether bc.i was there in 2011.

How come you don't know what it is? Is it your wallet or someone else's?

[monkeydominicorobin]

I have what I believe is an old BTC private key 17 blocks x 4 or 68 alphanumeric characters all in capitals creation date 03.06.2011. How do I view or import this to see if I have nay BTC inside?

Thats the hexadecimal private key. You can obtain the 52 character and even the 51 character private key by using it.Or if I am wrong you may be referring to the public key which is useless.

[jackg]

I have what I believe is an old BTC private key 17 blocks x 4 or 68 alphanumeric characters all in capitals creation date 03.06.2011. How do I view or import this to see if I have nay BTC inside?

Thats the hexadecimal private key. You can obtain the 52 character and even the 51 character private key by using it.Or if I am wrong you may be referring to the public key which is useless.

Not sure about the hexadecimal private key. However, the public keys didn't come into use until BIP38 in 2015 (unless I'm wrong). If you mean extended public key that is. If not then it could be an address in some sort of encrypted format.

(BTW it's not hexadecimal as it wouldn't begin with a K if it was).