Quote from: urmadbro on January 08, 2013, 12:21:24 AM

Sometime ago I purchased Bit coin through GetBitcoin LLC. I didn't know what I was doing and somehow made the purchase without an address to send the bitcoin to. I was told the bitcoin was sent and given tracking information through blockexplorer.com I am trying to deposit bitcoin into an account, but I'm not sure how to access my bitcoin. When I click on the link for the order in my email from GetBitcoin (sent 8/6/12) I get request not found. I have emailed GetBitcoin LLC and I get an email back saying they are out of business. I asked walletbit and was given the impression that blockchain.org might know something about it, but they told me they don't provide support for third party services (I thought they were affiliated with blockexplorer). Is it possible with the information that I have from blockexplorer to access the bitcoin to deposit it (it shows an adress...but it shows lots of different ones

) ? There is a lot of info sent to me about a completed transaction from blockexplorer.com.....can I use this info to make a deposit?
Moral of my story: learn then go not go then learn Grin

Thanks

So let me see if I have this straight...

Quite a while back, you purchased bitcoins from a company that now no longer exists (GetBitcoin LLC).
They claim to have sent bitcoins somewhere, but you have no idea where.
You didn't have a bitcoin wallet of any sort at the time.
You still don't have a bitcoin wallet of any sort.
You have a list of addresses from the transaction as seen in blockexplorer.com
You want to know if you can gain access to the bitcoins associated with the transaction?

Unless you can find a person who has access to the private keys associated with the addresses that the coins were sent to, I'm sorry to say that those bitcoins can probably be considered gone forever.

I'm not sure exactly what WalletBit or blockchain.org (is that even a website?) have to do with any of this.

There is a public record of every bitcoin transaction that ever occurs. These transactions are all stored in the Blockchain that every full node maintains a copy of.
All Blockexplorer is doing is showing you this public record in an easy to read format. They don't actually have access to any of those bitcoins.

Now you state that "There is a lot of info sent to me about a completed transaction". I'm not sure what you mean by "a lot of information", and I don't know much about how GetBitcoin handled situations where someone purchases bitcoins without providing a bitcoin address. I suppose if they loaded up an address with bitcoins and then sent you the private key, then you could still access the bitcoins, so if there happens to be a private key in that "lots of information", then you can still gain access to the bitcoins.