Locating bitcoin from 2009 In late 2009 maybe early very early of 2010 I was living at my parents and tryi to find a way to make money online.  It was all fairly new back then.  I remember looking at some computer coders site that spoke of stuff I didn’t understand when I found where someone was giving 25 bucks to download and run a program. I don’t recall if I clicked on a link, copied and pasted into browser. Idk. I do know that when I ran it it asked if I wanted to run it in the background. I chose yes.  And after it was all there the 25 was a huge number of bitcoin. The equivalent to 25 dollars worth of bitcoin back then.  I seen that and got irritated.  Mom told me to at least finish what I was doing.  So I did.
Later dad is annoyed at a program running that he couldn’t find.
He changed hard drives.
So years later I ask dad and yes he still has the hard drive.
The only thing I can find is where I copied and pasted the url into a folder.
But the url says bitcoin/stack.exchange or something like that followed by some characters.
Bitcoin stack exchange didn’t form for a few years yet.
Did the stack exchange have links or something to complete a bitcoin trade back then?
Does anyone remember back then how The word about bitcoin was spread? Oh and I do remember seeing peer to peer in something I was reading about the download I’d just done and I remember satoshi or something maybe even longer that began with satoshi
This sort of question comes up moderately often.
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You need to do one of the following:

Find a file named wallet.dat. Find or remember any password you might have used to protect the wallet.
Find a piece of paper where you wrote a &quot;private key&quot; - a string of letters and digits similar in length to E9873D79C6D87DC0FB6A5778633389F4453213303DA61F20BD67FC233AA33262.

Without something more definite than you wrote above, your $25 is lost forever.

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