Quote from: LoyceV on September 30, 2018, 05:16:47 PM

Quote from: Abdussamad on September 30, 2018, 05:11:53 PM

It's not a GA code because those are represented in base32 and according to the RFC the base32 alphabet does not include the character 8.

OP made up an example to show what it looks like. It could very well be his original code is 15 characters base32, but he didn't know that when he typed "JPGZE4MATACPN8L" as an example.

You are both absolutely right.
The character 8 is not actually in the original one.
The 8 is actually a 9 in the real one Wink

So what are your guys thoughts on it? could quite possibly well be an authenticator key?

Im actually looking for bitcoin for a friend on his laptop.

Quote from: bob123 on September 30, 2018, 05:35:50 AM

I'd agree with OmegaStarScream here. This looks like a Google 2FA code.
They use 'secret codes' with capital letters + numbers and a length of less than 16 symbols.

This definitely isn't a private key. You need way more characters to encode a private key (256 bit).

Do you remember anything at all regarding the wallet you have used ?
Did you use an online wallet ? Or did you maybe use a desktop wallet ?

This GA code could be from anywhere.

I have the wallet.dat file here but when downloaded the Bitcoin Core wallet and synched it and then overwrote the wallet.dat with the new one it came up with a balance of 0. Am I doing something wrong or missing something?

When I go into the debug text file in the bitcoin folder here is some of the info I get:

2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=00000000839a8e6886ab5951d76f411475428afc90947ee320161bbf18eb6048 height=1 version=0x00000001 log2_work=33.000022 tx=2 date='2009-01-09 02:54:25' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(1txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=000000006a625f06636b8bb6ac7b960a8d03705d1ace08b1a19da3fdcc99ddbd height=2 version=0x00000001 log2_work=33.584985 tx=3 date='2009-01-09 02:55:44' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(2txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=0000000082b5015589a3fdf2d4baff403e6f0be035a5d9742c1cae6295464449 height=3 version=0x00000001 log2_work=34.000022 tx=4 date='2009-01-09 03:02:53' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(3txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=000000004ebadb55ee9096c9a2f8880e09da59c0d68b1c228da88e48844a1485 height=4 version=0x00000001 log2_work=34.32195 tx=5 date='2009-01-09 03:16:28' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(4txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:32 UpdateTip: new best=000000009b7262315dbf071787ad3656097b892abffd1f95a1a022f896f533fc height=5 version=0x00000001 log2_work=34.584985 tx=6 date='2009-01-09 03:23:48' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(5txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:33 UpdateTip: new best=000000003031a0e73735690c5a1ff2a4be82553b2a12b776fbd3a215dc8f778d height=6 version=0x00000001 log2_work=34.807377 tx=7 date='2009-01-09 03:29:49' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(6txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:33 UpdateTip: new best=0000000071966c2b1d065fd446b1e485b2c9d9594acd2007ccbd5441cfc89444 height=7 version=0x00000001 log2_work=35.000022 tx=8 date='2009-01-09 03:39:29' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(7txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:33 UpdateTip: new best=00000000408c48f847aa786c2268fc3e6ec2af68e8468a34a28c61b7f1de0dc6 height=8 version=0x00000001 log2_work=35.169947 tx=9 date='2009-01-09 03:45:43' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(8txo)
2018-05-12 02:14:33 UpdateTip: new best=000000008d9dc510f23c2657fc4f67bea30078cc05a90eb89e84cc475c080805 height=9 version=0x00000001 log2_work=35.32195 tx=10 date='2009-01-09 03:54:39' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(9txo)

When it says in the last date 2009-01-09 what does that mean?