He has invested many years ago, he doesn’t remember how much and he has never been able to figure it out himself so now im trying to help him on the first page it says “bitcoin” his mail and then some letters and numbers in a string, and then some random notes and a few shopping lists, but on many pages is the exact same shopping list consisting of 7 items so i think that might be the code but idk i have not yet found anthing that could be the code can anyone help me getting his bitcoins back
I know not to share it, but what can i do if i then cant find the seed phrase? Is there then any way to get it back
Well what’s the service? Did he buy bitcoin through a service of some sort, or actually set up a wallet? You’re in a hard spot of needing to share more info to get a better answer, but sharing the wrong info can lose it. My best suggestion would be read more. Are there any headers on the paperwork with a company name?
If you don’t have the seed phrase it’s not necessarily lost. If he did buy the bitcoin himself and transferred it into his own wallet it could be on an old flash drive, old computer etc.
There are I think 2048 words used as seed phrases. It might be worth looking up that list of words and seeing if any of your paperwork looks like them. If I remember right you only need the first 3 or 4 letters of each work to have the whole word since it’s a limited list of words they can be if that makes sense.
Okay i will try to figure it out, i think he bought the bitcoin himself but with help from an old friend who he no longer has contact with maybe the first few letters of each item on the list is the first few letters of words in the phrase
Just for my curiosity did you have any luck? That long string you mentioned might be the public address. If it is you can look up what’s in the wallet to see if it’s worth your time to mess with.
What program/website would i use to do that