So, let's imagine for a moment, that you're an immature young bloke, with money burning a hole in your hip pocket and plenty of time to waste (I say imagine, but this is probably reality for half of the young male population!) So then you hear about this crazy website on the dark Web, Silk Road, where you can apparently purchase any kind of illicit/prescription drug that you can think of... Of course, you go home an experiment, spending hours working out how to set up accounts and wallets.
In the process you purchase yourself half a dozen bitcoins, the currency used on Silkroad website, then proceed to order your drug of choice and wait excitedly to see what happens.
A number of weeks later, your drug arrives, safe and sound. Off you go to party forgetting all about the actual purchase itself, and have the time of your life.
FAST FORWARD 6 YEARS
Some silly status on Facebook catches your eye, and you remember your silk road purchase and the left over Bitcoins in your wallet. You do a quick google search to check out the price of bitcoins, and realise that you have about 10,000AUD sitting in your wallet! CRAZY!!
The only problem is, you have no idea on the website you used as a once off, to create your wallet, or your passwords etc. Infact your not even 100% sure on which email address you may have used at the time.
Apart from trying to kick your own ass, what do you do?
This is reality for my silly little brother! I'm trying to help him find his btc, but as I am not overly tech-savvy, we aren't really sure where to begin. I don't know what Silkroad's 'preferred wallet' was at the time, or what wallets actually existed back then. Bitcoins were cheap as chips at the time, so he wasn't terribly worried about the left over, but obviously didn't anticipate that they would be worth so much in the future.
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