Quote from: gamerfan on December 08, 2017, 09:40:02 PM

Quote from: brokenchair on December 08, 2017, 06:23:58 PM

A guy I work with (I wish it was me lol Cry

) bought btc back in early 2013.
- He has an email with an attachment (assuming wallet back up)
- He has an email with the 12 words
- He has an email with a wallet id number

I'm guessing he has to downlaod bitcoin core, and then he can open the attachment, get his btc, and be Grin

I could be talking out of my ass though, so any thoughts on if this is the way to go about this, or not.

Thanks.

The 12 words should be a seed. Since it has id number and that attachment (maybe named "wallet.json"), it could be a blockchain.info wallet. It is easy to recover using another wallet where you can import your wallet.json file (blockchain.info old backup file).

As a side note, I'd say it is very risky to keep important infos about your Bitcoins on your email. If someone hacks your email, he could easily steal your funds...

Thank you. This is sort of what I was getting at with the bitcore wallet or whatever, as this is the only time I remember opening a file like he has. I will definitely have him test this next week at work and see if we can do something (couldn't test anything really today for him as work cps are blocked form downloads, i'll have him bring in his laptop.)

Quote from: mlgblockchain on December 08, 2017, 08:22:19 PM

To be very honest, the guy sounds a lot like "brokenchair". It's not something that regularly happen that you get to know "a guy's" email with so much detail and still being able to remember it after 4 years. And if I presume, this "guy" we are talking about here is your friend then I must say you are not a very good friend, you introduced your friend as "a guy". As for your problem, I believe the guy need to go keep digging with blockchain.info. 12words always refers to blockchain.info as far as my knowledge.

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Lol no it is not me, it is really a guy I work with, and he showed me the emails, as he knows I used be involved and what not (granted I still use it to this day for one of its useful purposes...gambling.) He actually bought the btc because some pharmacy or something said they accepted it and there was an issue with his card or something. I'd sure as hell not be ashamed of having over $70k in an old wallet, i'd be happy as hell. No reason to be spiteful and not help him out because i've made terrible calls with btc, which is something to be ashamed of Embarrassed

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