recovering old wallet?

[brokenchair]

A guy I work with (I wish it was me lol ) bought btc back in early 2013.
- He has an email with an attachment (assuming wallet back up)
- He has an email with the 12 words
- He has an email with a wallet id number

I'm guessing he has to downlaod bitcoin core, and then he can open the attachment, get his btc, and be 

I could be talking out of my ass though, so any thoughts on if this is the way to go about this, or not.

Thanks.

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[dothebeats]

12 words, usually that would be Electrum or blockchain.info since there also is an option for you to receive your 12-word mnemonics on both, the difference is that in blockchain.info you are given a wallet identifier to decrypt your wallet. Have you tried downloading Electrum and see whether you'll come up with anything? Also, try blockchain.info and see whether it will work or not.

[brokenchair]

12 words, usually that would be Electrum or blockchain.info since there also is an option for you to receive your 12-word mnemonics on both, the difference is that in blockchain.info you are given a wallet identifier to decrypt your wallet. Have you tried downloading Electrum and see whether you'll come up with anything? Also, try blockchain.info and see whether it will work or not.

He did have an email from blockchain.info (I know it is not electrum), but he cannot get in with the 12 words on the attempts he said he made.  He said he tried recovering the password there with the 12 words but it does not work.
Any ideas as to why the 12 words wouldn't work?  Thank you.   

[AdolfinWolf]

12 words, usually that would be Electrum or blockchain.info since there also is an option for you to receive your 12-word mnemonics on both, the difference is that in blockchain.info you are given a wallet identifier to decrypt your wallet. Have you tried downloading Electrum and see whether you'll come up with anything? Also, try blockchain.info and see whether it will work or not.

He did have an email from blockchain.info (I know it is not electrum), but he cannot get in with the 12 words on the attempts he said he made.  He said he tried recovering the password there with the 12 words but it does not work.
Any ideas as to why the 12 words wouldn't work?  Thank you.   

Where did he try to fill in the twelve words? I believe Electrum & blockchain.info might use different derivation methods, which is why it might not work.

Try to enable BIP39 seeds in electrum, and try again.


Also, check the word list, to see if all the words in the seed are correct.

Not entirely sure but i believe blockchain.info uses this one https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt

[mlgblockchain]

To be very honest, the guy sounds a lot like "brokenchair". It's not something that regularly happen that you get to know "a guy's" email with so much detail and still being able to remember it after 4 years. And if I presume, this "guy" we are talking about here is your friend then I must say you are not a very good friend, you introduced your friend as "a guy". As for your problem, I believe the guy need to go keep digging with blockchain.info. 12words always refers to blockchain.info as far as my knowledge.

[gamerfan]

A guy I work with (I wish it was me lol ) bought btc back in early 2013.
- He has an email with an attachment (assuming wallet back up)
- He has an email with the 12 words
- He has an email with a wallet id number

I'm guessing he has to downlaod bitcoin core, and then he can open the attachment, get his btc, and be 

I could be talking out of my ass though, so any thoughts on if this is the way to go about this, or not.

Thanks.

The 12 words should be a seed. Since it has id number and that attachment (maybe named "wallet.json"), it could be a blockchain.info wallet. It is easy to recover using another wallet where you can import your wallet.json file (blockchain.info old backup file).

As a side note, I'd say it is very risky to keep important infos about your Bitcoins on your email. If someone hacks your email, he could easily steal your funds...

[brokenchair]

A guy I work with (I wish it was me lol ) bought btc back in early 2013.
- He has an email with an attachment (assuming wallet back up)
- He has an email with the 12 words
- He has an email with a wallet id number

I'm guessing he has to downlaod bitcoin core, and then he can open the attachment, get his btc, and be 

I could be talking out of my ass though, so any thoughts on if this is the way to go about this, or not.

Thanks.

The 12 words should be a seed. Since it has id number and that attachment (maybe named "wallet.json"), it could be a blockchain.info wallet. It is easy to recover using another wallet where you can import your wallet.json file (blockchain.info old backup file).

As a side note, I'd say it is very risky to keep important infos about your Bitcoins on your email. If someone hacks your email, he could easily steal your funds...

Thank you. This is sort of what I was getting at with the bitcore wallet or whatever, as this is the only time I remember opening a file like he has.  I will definitely have him test this next week at work and see if we can do something (couldn't test anything really today for him as work cps are blocked form downloads, i'll have him bring in his laptop.)

To be very honest, the guy sounds a lot like "brokenchair". It's not something that regularly happen that you get to know "a guy's" email with so much detail and still being able to remember it after 4 years. And if I presume, this "guy" we are talking about here is your friend then I must say you are not a very good friend, you introduced your friend as "a guy". As for your problem, I believe the guy need to go keep digging with blockchain.info. 12words always refers to blockchain.info as far as my knowledge.

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Lol no it is not me, it is really a guy I work with, and he showed me the emails, as he knows I used be involved and what not (granted I still use it to this day for one of its useful purposes...gambling.)  He actually bought the btc because some pharmacy or something said they accepted it and there was an issue with his card or something.  I'd sure as hell not be ashamed of having over $70k in an old wallet, i'd be happy as hell.  No reason to be spiteful and not help him out because i've made terrible calls with btc, which is something to be ashamed of  . 

[uberproteam]

Just download mycelium wallet on android and put 12 words you will be good to go again!!

[COTInetwork]

It should be possible yes. If you have the recovery phrase and know for which wallet provided it originally was it should work out. I know a guy for example that had btc on an old hard drive in russia while he was living in the US. He saved up for a few months and took the hard drive back to us and recovered the btc on it. it was quite a lucky break.

[mlgblockchain]

To be very honest, the guy sounds a lot like "brokenchair". It's not something that regularly happen that you get to know "a guy's" email with so much detail and still being able to remember it after 4 years. And if I presume, this "guy" we are talking about here is your friend then I must say you are not a very good friend, you introduced your friend as "a guy". As for your problem, I believe the guy need to go keep digging with blockchain.info. 12words always refers to blockchain.info as far as my knowledge.

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Lol no it is not me, it is really a guy I work with, and he showed me the emails, as he knows I used be involved and what not (granted I still use it to this day for one of its useful purposes...gambling.)  He actually bought the btc because some pharmacy or something said they accepted it and there was an issue with his card or something.  I'd sure as hell not be ashamed of having over $70k in an old wallet, i'd be happy as hell.  No reason to be spiteful and not help him out because i've made terrible calls with btc, which is something to be ashamed of  . 
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Thank you to clarify who was "the guy" we are talking about here. Hope you make good call with Bitcoins from now on. And be able to stop being ashamed of yourself and be "happy as hell". All the best.