I know I was trying to buy Bitcoin from 2009 to early 2010. I moved far in the second half of 2010 and left my belongings with my family. Years passed and Bitcoin became precious, so I couldn’t remember if I actually found a way to buy from someone at the time, or if I had kept it if I had. But I always felt like I bought some.
I recently retrieved those items I had left and found an old external hard drive. The hard drive contains a folder named Crypto, created in September 2009. Within this folder there is another folder named RSA.
Within that RSA folder is another folder named S-1-5-21-1234567890-0987654321-1122334455-9999 (edited for this post). This folder has two UNIX executables, with file names in both this format: 1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF_ABCD1234-5678-90AB-CDEF-1234567890ABABAB
Each file name (0-9 and AF) has 64 characters, which is the same as a private key. Additionally, the first 32 characters of each filename are unique, but the last 32 characters of each filename are the same as the other files. As you can see, there is an underscore after the first 32 characters in each filename, with some dashes within the last 32 characters.
Are these Bitcoin private keys? The parent folder was created in 2009 under the name Crypto, so I can’t imagine what else there are. I have tried subtracting the underscore except for each filename and then subtracting the dash to the popular wallet platform as a private key, but both show invalid keys. Then I tried to combine the first 32 characters of each and import it as a key, but again say it’s invalid key.
I’m confused. Any advice?
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