I own Bitcoin from 2009/2010 I know my seed phrase I need help loging in pls hlp

[Abilenetxx]

This is a serious post if you can help me I am willing to give you 50%

[1714721225]

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[PX-Z]

This is a serious post if you can help me I am willing to give you 50%

Red flag. Sounds like a holder of a bitcoin core wallet.dat file either from buying scammers or one of them. Especially of those 50% offer, it looks like the wallet.dat file has lots of bitcoin in it.

[Hazink]

First, move this thread to the bitcoin discussion.

Secondly, if you have your seed phrase, you can just import it into one of the trusted wallets, like the Electron, Sparrow, or Blue wallet, depending on the type of device you like using.

There is no need to promise anybody something in exchange for help if you truly have those bitcoins. If you go around looking for someone to buy their help, you might get scammed.

[Abilenetxx]

Thank you for the advise
I know it sounds to good to be true and lately I've sounded crazy to family and friends when I ask for help with
In 2009 I was sitting in the waiting room at Abilene regional hospital when I purchased the Bitcoin I spent 20 dollars on pay pal

[dzungmobile]

This is a serious post if you can help me I am willing to give you 50%

In 2009, 2010, there is no wallet support mnemonic seed.

BIP-39 was created in 2013 [1].
Electrum claimed their own mnemonic seed was created 2 years earlier, in 2011.[2]

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki
[2] https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/seedphrase.html

Try this.
[overview] Recover Bitcoin from any old storage format

[Abilenetxx]

In 2009/2010 was it possible to create your own seed phrase ?

[Abilenetxx]

I am sure
I know its there

[Pokapoka124]

Ok message me

I hate to be a party pooper but both of you are newbies and cannot send pms. Why do I get the feeling that this two accounts are controlled by the same person. I may be wrong but it does look suspicious. This is not the first time I have seen scammers using this story. It’s incredible that there is anyone gullible enough to believe OP’s story.

This topic belongs to Beginners and Help.

[bittraffic]

His inbox must have been full already from the users volunteering to do it for him taking half of the amount. Easy to believe those scammers really until you give that dat file of yours.

$20 worth of BTC during that time, must be really a lot. I think the value was less than $1 at that time. But this could also be a scam that OP is orchestrating. We just have no idea whether OP is also a scam, its too good to be true indeed.

[Myleschetty]

In 2009/2010 was it possible to create your own seed phrase ?

The seed phrase you said you have from your 2009/2010 is enough for you to access the old wallet. Do you by any chance know the wallet you used back then maybe it is old blockchain.info?
Check https://github.com/blockchain/unused-My-Wallet/blob/master/mnemonic_words_v3.html to see if those seed phrase words belong to it.
I don't know how developed the system was then but it's possible to create your seed phrase if you follow the right procedure.

[Davidvictorson]

This is a serious post if you can help me I am willing to give you 50%

Assuming this were true.
Anyone who sends you a PM is mostly likely going to scam you especially if that person is a newbie who just signed up on the forum. You have been warned. Don't come back here with another post referencing this one on how you got scammed.

[Cricktor]

This is a serious post if you can help me I am willing to give you 50%

Give the recovery task to Dave of https://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/contact/. He's an expert, doesn't scam people and will guide you through the process. Dave will also only charge you 20% and only when he succeeds, zero otherwise. When your wallet is worth more than $100k his charge could even drop to 15% if wallet's password isn't exceptionally complex.

Dave also doesn't need your full wallet.dat file (only a portion of it), anyone who asks for the whole wallet.dat, is very very likely a scammer. Be careful!!!
Dave will guide you to extract some little data of the encrypted wallet passphrase from your wallet.dat file, that's all he needs. If you give initialy more than that or your full wallet.dat to someone else who claims he can help, you can kiss your coins goodbye.

I have no affiliation with Dave's reputed business, I just cite from his cite. His account walletrecoveryservices seems inactive. This is his announcement of his services in this forum:
Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services

Here's a quote from a Bitcoin Core dev and reputable forum's staff member about Dave's service:

There are many programs that can brute force things, and when run on a distributed system or a cluster, they can brute force passwords very quickly. Given wordlists of potential password candidates and word mangling rules, it can be relatively easy to brute force a password.

I have actually known about wallet recovery services, and you don't need to send them the full wallet, just parts of it which can be dumped using pywallet. They require the part regarding the password and 1 or 2 addresses from the wallet that can be empty. This safeguards your coins if they should try to steal them. The info about this is here: http://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/information.html

AGAIN, OP, you will be contacted by a lot of people, all pretending to be able to recover your coins. They might be able, but most of them might scam you. You can't know whom you can trust. Talk with Dave, that's likely your best chance. To recover the wallet's password it would help immensely if you can remember how you usually constructed your passwords. People are mostly lazy with their passwords and stick to their known routine or have a bunch of re-used passwords.


P.S.
To my knowledge in those early years of Bitcoin there weren't many options for exchanges or other wallets. So I'm assuming OP has an old legacy BitcoinGUI wallet.dat file. Don't quite remember when BitcoinGUI (today Bitcoin Core) introduced wallet.dat encryption passphrases... (very early wallets didn't have any encryption of the wallet file at all).

[Abilenetxx]

I'm not a scammer and yeah I know what it's worth if I can get into this wallet and I've been trying on my own have gotten nowhere if there a way I can prove myself to you I will im just a regular guy here in abilene tx

 

[Cricktor]

You give basically no useful information or details about your recovery problem. So far everybody here has to guess what this is about. You don't need to disclose how much coins are in, eh, where again? You don't even told this...

Let's assume, this is all serious. You can't get help if serious helpers don't know any details of your problem. Think hard, what can be made public and which details shouldn't be made public. Not everybody here is friendly, remember that.

My advice: stay public with your issue. Sweet words in hidden PMs can lure you into trouble and part you from your coins.

You offer 50% of your coins which is kind of too much. It looks a bit like a red flag. I'm not accusing you of anything, but 50% is sort of shady, compared to a professional service that will only charge you 20% in case of success! Seriously, I don't know what to say. I mean, in the end it's your decision.


There are a lot of question marks. Where are the private keys that can spend your coins? Do you have a wallet file? Which wallet did you use? Do you have a web-wallet? Is the web-wallet service still operational? What secret needs to be broken to gain access to your coins?

Do not disclose any details that can lead to your loss of your coins! If you don't know what you can disclose and what you better shouldn't, ask here publicly.

[Abilenetxx]

I understand the risk of just handing out information we would have to meet face to face
I swear I wouldn't waste your time I am just ready to find my way back into my wallet even if it cost me 50% I hope someone somewhere is reading this that will believe me and be willing to meet in person. If you have been waiting on a blessing from above this is it I swear


50% because I know I have nothing if I can't get serious experienced guidance to accessing my wallet let's meet in public face to face and get this done we can sign an agreement before we start

[Faisal2202]

50% because I know I have nothing if I can't get serious experienced guidance to accessing my wallet let's meet in public face to face and get this done we can sign an agreement before we start

You did not mention what's the real problem here, you have the seed phrase, just import your wallet then, and the money will be there. If you really have the seed phrase. What's the big deal here that you are offering 50% of what you have? And you also want to meet face to face. Don't you think you can find a better person in your area? This is not a regional forum though but you might not get lucky in getting such face to face deal here.

I suggest visiting some freelancing platforms or your local service providers for a better experience. Although its not very hard to retrieve your wallet from the seed phrase you have. If you are legit! which I also doubt no offense. I suggest don't become over excited and over caring as well. Because in both cases we make mistakes. So don't share your seed phrase to anyone.

[SatoPrincess]

OP you need to provide more information about your problem. The OP says you know your seed phrase so what’s stopping you from accessing your wallet? Is it that you forgot which wallet or website you used back then? There aren’t a lot of wallets in 2009/2010 so it shouldn’t be so difficult to narrow it down. Good luck finding someone in your city who can help. Be careful of scammers and thieves.

50% because I know I have nothing if I can't get serious experienced guidance to accessing my wallet let's meet in public face to face and get this done we can sign an agreement before we start

[Abilenetxx]

Where do I enter my seed phrase

[Mpamaegbu]

Ok message me

I hate to be a party pooper but both of you are newbies and cannot send pms. Why do I get the feeling that this two accounts are controlled by the same person. I may be wrong but it does look suspicious. This is not the first time I have seen scammers using this story. It’s incredible that there is anyone gullible enough to believe OP’s story.

Don't worry your head over those two. They will sort themselves out at the right time. Act like we don't know that game. We often get to see such stuff like OP's story whenever Bitcoin is in a great shape. Wait till the fever associated with bull run heightens, you will find more sob stories.

[Hamza2424]

This is a serious post if you can help me I am willing to give you 50%

hmm, You are just a newbie and willing to share 50% of the amount in reward for the person who will help you, and in my own view, this may be surely a scam as the newbie has no trust in the forum he/she has to built some trust on the forum by giving it a quality time of him/her so the member now the user deal with trustworthy eyes. So there is no logic as you just registered today and want to get help from the forum members and at the same time you are offering the helper 50% amount of the wallet haha...

On the other hand, You have not cleared the context at all. For that You should explain the full problem in detail like what are you experiencing on your side as nobody really know the actual problem that you are facing so must explain your problem next time but before that build trust in the forum environment.