What Will You Do To Recover Bitcoin?

[Newchanka]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

[DabsPoorVersion]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

As long as you remember the site and your user/password, you will recover it.
However, there is no guarantee that your bitcoin is still there waiting for you. There are times that social networking websites will defunct and if that happens, even if you remember the website, your bitcoins will no longer be able to withdraw.

[NeuroticFish]

"Not your keys, not your coins". Unless you (installed a software and) made a wallet and received a private key (or a wallet file) I'd stop dreaming. Most probably that site doesn't exist anymore or has change and would not allow you withdraw.

[Fatunad]

There is no way you can recover it. First it was stored in the websites wallet and second they are in full control with your funds. Most probably they are already shut down and took all what you have earned before. That's the price you paid for disregarding the future use of btc. Best thing to do is to forget about it. If you happened to store it in an offline wallet then It's supposed to be possible to recover it.

[Upgrade00]

If the story is a real account of a situation and the person has not yet gotten the website name after 2 years then they'll need to take other measures. Try scanning the device you were using back then. If by chance you still have it. It's possible to get the websites that we're opened that far back, hopefully the website has a forgotten password recovery process and uou remember your email you registered with.
As others have said, the chances of the bitcoins being there, or the website being active is near impossible, and if you left the Bitcoin on their web wallet, it's as good as gone

[trumpman]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

Well, chances are that after all these years the bitcoins on the faucet or whatever site you were using are totally lost. Either the site has closed all they will have seized your BTC due to inactivity or some other stupid excuse

However in the off chance the site is still active and still holds your btc you may want to do a search for "bitcoin", "faucet" or something similar in your email and check what pops up in 2010 and later. Hopefully you will still have your registration email and you will find the name of the site you are looking for! They will probably have a "forgot your password" option which you can use to recover your pass...

[hatshepsut93]

I was in a similar situation a few years ago, and I failed to recover the coins despite trying everything I could. I received some altcoins as a bonus for my work and forgot about them. Later during the 2017 bubble the price of those coins skyrocketed, and I tried to access them, but couldn't find the wallet file on my computer. I used hard drive recovery tools and found some wallet.dat file, but it was corrupt and couldn't be opened. Looking at hex dump, it looks like large parts of it were already overwritten by other data.

So, generally recovery will either be very easy if you have the right password and wallet, or effectively impossible.

[Zeke_23]

9 long years and you didn't even consider to take note about the website, you should have saved pieces of information you have used when you signed up on that website. If you totally forgot about the website, then your chances are very low to recover your bitcoin. It is hard to recover something if you don't even know yourself what you are looking for.

[CryptoBry]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

There is a strong probability that the site where the 100 Bitcoin can be located is already dead or gone therefore it would already be impossible to retrieve them. When a person can not remember anymore the site where digital assets can be stored then the retrieval process can not commence, this is just a very important common sense. This is the reason why one must have a book or a record of the things he has registered with, who know years from now something can come up and there is a need to review the records. Now, the lessons in this story can be applied whether one is involved in cryptocurrency or not, online or not.

[angrybirdy]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

There is a strong probability that the site where the 100 Bitcoin can be located is already dead or gone therefore it would already be impossible to retrieve them. When a person can not remember anymore the site where digital assets can be stored then the retrieval process can not commence, this is just a very important common sense. This is the reason why one must have a book or a record of the things he has registered with, who know years from now something can come up and there is a need to review the records. Now, the lessons in this story can be applied whether one is involved in cryptocurrency or not, online or not.

It's true, it would be impossible but who knows. Maybe the website is still there and retrievable. If he may be able to remember every detailed information, he will be lucky to retrieve every piece of his funds.
But there is also a chance that the website is already dead. If this happens, no more ways to withdraw the fund and will be put to waste.

[yhiaali3]

I don't know if it was a true story or is it your imagination!!!
But if you say that you registered since 2010, this means about ten years and if the site still exists and you have not entered since that time,
It means that they have deleted your account for sure because most sites delete accounts Inactive after a period of time.
So forget it.

[Jating]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

Then there's no way for you to recover your bitcoins, simply as that.

You can't even remember the site, so I'm sure you also don't remember your wallet and obviously you don't have the private key. And do you think that the owner of that site wouldn't 'steal' that bitcoin from you?. So the chances are zero here, sorry to burst the bubble for you.

[coin-investor]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

If you registered on any site you will have to confirm the email that you registered to those sites, so all you have to do it to do research on all the sites that you verified, hopefully you are not the kind that deletes messages, this will be tedious and it will take weeks, but we are talking of hundreds or more Bitcoin, so you will need to be patient on this, I have done this when I was very active on faucets.

[bounceback]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

I think this is very slim our hope to restore a site that has been almost 10 years let alone we do not remember the site that we explored in 2010, because it's quite a long time, I personally will definitely do something to restore it in How to explore the history of cloud synchronization in our cellphones, might help us get the data we explored in that year.

[bhabygrim]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

If it was back in 2010 and all of your Bitcoin was in the site the question is do you think that the site would still give it to you ?
Do you think that those sites  back in 2010 that is giving out free bitcoin or a faucet could still give you 100 BTC right now even if you remember the sites name?
To be honest I think that the site that you are trying to remember has been down for a long time now.

[bitbollo]

I don't think it's already possible recover btc from a ponzi website, moreover if these funds were deposited in 2010.

[mrdeposit]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

Click the "forgot password" button. But if you forget the password of mail or whatever you signed up with, there will not be much you can do for it. In addition, the situation of the site is another issue. The site was probably shut down a long time ago. If you have actually experienced something like this, it is best to give us more information about the site so that we can understand your situation.

[gabmen]

In 2010, you came across a site that was giving away bitcoins. The site said it was free money so you signed up. You were logging in to figure out how it was money but couldn't. The last time you logged in you had more than 100 bitcoins. Later you forgot about the site until 2017 when a ponzi was advertising Bitcoin. Bitcoin? The name rang a bell and you stated hearing stories. You remembered you must have many bitcoins  somewhere but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

Lol. I guess the simple answer is you can't. Just accept the fact that it's already something that got away from you. It's the same as the pizza that was bought in a couple of btcs around that many years ago. We didn't know back then that bitcoin would end up like this so i don't think one should feel regret over not taking bitcoin seriously when it was just starting. If the same thing would happen now with another new currency, i think most of us will still react the same way.

[skarais]

OP is not talking about his own experience, but maybe just imagination. Do not remember anything about site, then you cannot access or restore your BTC there.

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You have to understand the problem first, he says he cant even know the site he is visiting. So the suggestion to reset the password is not the right suggestion in my opinion.

~~~ but you can't even remember the name of the site. How would you recover your BTC?

[Eugenar]

I don't know if it was a true story or is it your imagination!!!
But if you say that you registered since 2010, this means about ten years and if the site still exists and you have not entered since that time,
It means that they have deleted your account for sure because most sites delete accounts Inactive after a period of time.
So forget it.

Basically, if the site is already 10 years and I'm pretty sure they've already stopped providing free bitcoin on their faucets, as long as they are not a gambling site, there's no reason for them to still continue. It is clear at this time that faucets aren't providing decent bitcoin now, and it is impossible that there are still people funding that site, so there's a huge chance that the domain is already down.