Lost wallet or something like that

[ProzacR]

I remember I had bitcoin account with password and some bitcoin in it.
Now that computer is lost long time ago, but I think I still know password and account name.
How can I get my coin back?
Or it is stored on device?

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[OmegaStarScream]

You need to give us more information here:

- Do you remember the name of the service you were using?
- You keep saying account. Was it an online website by any chance? If so, how long ago was this?

[ProzacR]

It was like bitcoin and that is it. Application on Debian Linux to try. Not like website at all. It had login and password much like website. It was like decade ago (2013-2014) I am not sure.
It was unimportant at all but now I think reclaiming would give some gains.
I might try to remember better. Already tried to look Debian software lists.

Something very close to bictoin-core.

[LoyceV]

Not like website at all. It had login and password much like website.

This is slightly confusing....

Something very close to bictoin-core.

Bitcoin Core doesn't have a "login", but you can set a password. In this case you'll be looking for a file called wallet.dat, if you don't have it, and don't have a backup, you can't access your Bitcoins. If you could, Bitcoin wouldn't be secure.

[OmegaStarScream]

It was like bitcoin and that is it. Application on Debian Linux to try. Not like website at all. It had login and password much like website. It was like decade ago (2013-2014) I am not sure.
It was unimportant at all but now I think reclaiming would give some gains.
I might try to remember better. Already tried to look Debian software lists.

Something very close to bictoin-core.

Could you look for "Electrum" or "Multibit" in Google images? Neither looked or had a "login" like a website, but doesn't hurt to check.

I doubt that finding the software used would be of any help though. Because if you only have account name (not sure what you're referring to by that but I would imagine the address?) and the password and you have no seedphrase to restore your wallet, then... you would still need to have access to the wallet file but you're saying you no longer have access to that computer.

Are you sure it wasn't Blockchain.info? It was quite popular back then.

[seek3r]

It was like bitcoin and that is it. Application on Debian Linux to try. Not like website at all. It had login and password much like website. It was like decade ago (2013-2014) I am not sure.
It was unimportant at all but now I think reclaiming would give some gains.
I might try to remember better. Already tried to look Debian software lists.

Something very close to bictoin-core.

As already mentioned you have to give a few more details if you are looking for serious help.
If you still have ur hardware from that time you should take LoyceV's advice from here:

Bitcoin Core doesn't have a "login", but you can set a password. In this case you'll be looking for a file called wallet.dat, if you don't have it, and don't have a backup, you can't access your Bitcoins.

[Myleschetty]

As said by others, it's somehow hard to help based on the unsolid information you provided but if you talking about having Bitcoin core on the lost computer and you don't have the back file information the Bitcoin lost.
If you have on a website like some people did in the early days of BTC since you talking about login, the BTC is also lost.
No self-custodial holding means you're not the owner of the BTC.

[shield132]

I remember I had bitcoin account with password and some bitcoin in it.
Now that computer is lost long time ago, but I think I still know password and account name.
How can I get my coin back?
Or it is stored on device?

How can they be stored on device?
Do you had to login like this?

Maybe you should check this article

You can probably try to download many well trusted bitcoin wallet softwares and try your account credentials on each of them. I don't think there is other hope.

[BitMaxz]

If this is a software wallet on Debian OS you might be talking about Electrum wallet?

This would be hard to guess but can you also check the Armory wallet?

Can you share with us how your PC was lost you can maybe still have the hard drive from that PC? But if you don't have any then this is pretty hard to know what wallet software you used at that time that supports login passwords.

[nc50lc]

It was like bitcoin and that is it. Application on Debian Linux to try. Not like website at all. It had login and password much like website. It was like decade ago (2013-2014) I am not sure.

Now that computer is lost long time ago, but I think I still know password and account name.

What does the "account name" looks like?
For safety and privacy, you can replace every character or a few, but do not change the format.
This is essential to know which wallet it is from.

Or it is stored on device?

Those "not website" wallets usually stores the wallet file in the device itself.
But applications that require username and password usually has it in their server.

How can I get my coin back?

The beauty of Bitcoin is it's non-custodial, means that there's no custodial service or server who hodls your Bitcoins for you.
With it, no one can recover your bitcoins from a server, even the developers do not have access to anyone's bitcoins.
You need to recover the wallet file or any backup of it.

That's unless your login details are from an exchange, some custodial wallet, or web wallets.
In that case, it depends if the service or owner is still active.

[Ryker1]

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How can I get my coin back?
Or it is stored on device?

Remember everything from where you bought it and the bitcoin address you have used so that you can trace your transaction.
Email that associates upon buying your bitcoin.
If this was stored on the device, you must have a recovery seed because the password alone is not enough to recover the wallet.

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It was like decade ago (2013-2014) I am not sure.

Something very close to bictoin-core.

I am thinking about the Armory wallet, you can try it but as I said, the password alone will not recover your bitcoin wallet --first, find your old device where your bitcoin is stored and it could you can find the recovery seed.

[hosseinimr93]

I am thinking about the Armory wallet, you can try it but as I said, the password alone will not recover your bitcoin wallet --first, find your old device where your bitcoin is stored and it could you can find the recovery seed.

If by recovery seed, you mean a seed phrase which usually includes 12 or 24 words, take note that there is no seed phrase in Armory. In Armory, private keys are backed up by root key.
Armory's root key includes 18 meaningless words and that's different from a seed phrase.

[ProzacR]

HDD went down and was replaced, later even more parts got replaced over decade, before retiring it totally.
I got those parts of bitcoin for free as for registration gift. Maybe, after all, it was related to some website like nc50lc said.
Maybe someone remembers who distributed them like that.
I think it could be something like Bitcoin Qt, I mean it had not special name a lot: just maybe few letters.
I believe it was Debian version 7 even older like some pictures given here, and login was not that one to system itself.

But I can not remember much more to answer questions.
I think it is all lost then.
Thanks for all who tried to help.

[FatFork]

But I can not remember much more to answer questions.
I think it is all lost then.
Thanks for all who tried to help.

Yep, if you can't remember anything more than that, you can consider whatever you had in that wallet lost. It won't help you to think about what could have been.

But as a side note, you could give it a shot by going back through all your notes from that time, if you've got any. I'm in the habit of jotting down all sorts of stuff and little reminders on paper, and I almost never throw away my old notebooks. You never know what you will find there that might jog your memory.

[Casdinyard]

It was like bitcoin and that is it. Application on Debian Linux to try. Not like website at all. It had login and password much like website. It was like decade ago (2013-2014) I am not sure.
It was unimportant at all but now I think reclaiming would give some gains.
I might try to remember better. Already tried to look Debian software lists.

Something very close to bictoin-core.

That didn't help that much. First off, plethora of Linux wallet apps to scour the internet from and much of them would've probably changed interfaces over the years, so much so that they would be unrecognizable decades from now (correct me if I'm wrong here, not really that educated regarding how Linux softwares work but yeah). Apart from that, pretty sure the only definitive way we could get your coins back even if we do get your password and your login username is to still get the hardware, as some wallet apps lock themselves upon specific hard disks to secure and make sure that nobody else could gain access to it other than you, regardless. I think your best bet now is to just jumpstart your bitcoin journey without these. it's sad and all that, but at the very least, its search lead you back into trying to investing into bitcoin yeah?