I do know I used to be attempting to buy bitcoin within the very early days 2009-2010. I moved throughout distant in late 2010 and left some belongings behind with household. As years have glided by and bitcoin bought useful, I could not keep in mind if I really found out easy methods to purchase from somebody again then or the place I had it saved if I did. However I’ve at all times felt like did buy some.

I lately recovered these gadgets I left behind and located an previous exterior exhausting drive. The exhausting drive accommodates a folder named Crypto created in September 2009. Inside this folder is one other folder named RSA, which I realized means Rivest-Shamir-Adleman, a public-key cryptography algorithm.

Inside that RSA folder is one other folder named S-1-5-21-1234567890-0987654321-1122334455-9999 (edited for this submit), which I’ve additionally realized signifies it is a Safety Identifier (SID). Inside this folder are two Unix Executable Information and the information names are each on this format: 1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef_abcd1234-5678-90ab-cdef-1234567890ab

There are 64 characters in every file identify (0-9 and a-f), identical as non-public keys. Additionally, the primary 32 characters in every file identify are distinctive, however the final 32 characters in every file identify are an identical to the opposite file. As you may see there’s an underscore after the primary 32 characters in every file identify and several other dashes inside the final 32 characters.

Are these bitcoin non-public keys? The mother or father folder was named Crypto and created in 2009 so I am unable to think about what else they’d be. I’ve tried to import every file identify minus the underscore and dashes as non-public keys into a well-liked pockets platform and it says Invalid Keys for each. I then tried to mix the primary 32 characters of every and import that as the important thing and once more it is saying Invalid Keys.

I’m stumped. Any recommendation?