Quote from: notocactus on Today at 04:48:47 AM

Quote from: clos7711@gmail.com on July 18, 2025, 11:55:53 PM

Hello, I received some bitcoin for somebody back in 2005 around when I was in middle school.he paid me it through Facebook. I remember it very clearly as I was in class on that day in 7th grade.i had the bitcoin account in my yahoo mail but yahoo closed my email account, does anyone know of any way i might be able to recover the bitcoin somehow.

Two important points for you.

Firstly, register an account with an username as your email address is very bad in privacy. It can put your email address under spam attacks and highly potential scam contacts.
Secondly, you confused about Bitcoin. There is nothing as Bitcoin account, and surely no Bitcoin account in your yahoo email address.

The only thing you possibly did is created an account on a centralized platform that can be either a centralized exchange or any platform, and you considered it as your Bitcoin account while it is actually not.

This is a bad practice and there is warning on it.
Reminder: do not keep your money in online accounts.

Another thing is you store its information in your email address, and if you actually did it, you did had terrible practice. Some guides on security and privacy for you to improve your practice in future.

You made a good post that is generally good for newbies, however I think that if this person is believing that they had Bitcoin in 2005 (4 years before Bitcoin even existed), I doubt that they will pay much attention to all of the effort you just put into this post.

They also supposedly created the account in 2005 (20 years ago), so you are technically advising them based on their actions 20 years ago and whilst they were in the 7th grade...Though I suppose it could still be useful since they are here trying to recover bitcoin from 2005, haha Roll Eyes