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Who sent me Bitcoin in 2011 ?
Posted: 2025 Nov 11, 07:58
by decipha
Someone (hoping one of you) sent me 450 bitcoin back around 2011/2012 time frame for helping them out basically tuning their vehicle. It was a file sent to me through AOL instant messenger I downloaded and saved on an old laptop. At the time I had no idea what bitcoin was and didn't think much of it. That laptop is long gone. AOL can't get anything from AIM and I don't even know who sent it.
I don't have a wallet, never did and never setup anything for it. AFAIK it was just a raw bitcoin hash file???
Anyone remember this?
Re: Who sent me Bitcoin in 2011 ?
Posted: 2025 Nov 12, 06:13
by red5.0fogger
You gave it to me cuz you're a nice fella. LOL kidding
Re: Who sent me Bitcoin in 2011 ?
Posted: 2025 Nov 12, 19:17
by Cougar281
Man... If you have 450 Bitcoin from 2011 (early in 2011 it was $1 or less per bitcoin), you're set if you can get into it.....
Re: Who sent me Bitcoin in 2011 ?
Posted: 2025 Nov 13, 13:16
by wwhite
Lost Bitcoin from 2011-2012 - Likely Unrecoverable.
It's unfortunately highly unlikely they can recover it.
Back then, Bitcoin wasn't sent as a file - it was sent via wallet backups or private keys.
If you didn't set up a wallet yourself, don't have the old laptop it was on, and have lost access to old AIM/AOL messages, the Bitcoin is almost certainly gone.
Ownership relies entirely on having that private key or wallet file - remembering someone sending it isn't enough.
I have an old laptop from 2008, I re-formatted it, not thinking how important the wallet.dat file was/is. Forget about it, better luck playing the lottery.