<p>Bitcoin transactions and addresses are public knowledge; there is no way to calculate a private key by looking at a transaction/address.</p>
<p>You'll need to find the private keys themselves, otherwise your coins will remain un-spendable.</p>

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2021-07-25T20:50:26.183Z
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chytrik
<p>The file contains the addrStr
Balance
Amount sent (0)
And such and then 2 transactions</p>
<p>The address does show the 50 bitcoin.
One of the 2 transactions also show the same.
However I’m not sure how to get the priv key from this.
The second transaction it shows is not recognized by block explorer.
Is that a hash of the priv.key? I ran it threw sha256 but still nothing.</p>

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Finally found an old transaction from 2009
Erica Dawn
# Finally found an old transaction from 2009

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-07-25)

The file contains the addrStr
Balance
Amount sent (0)
And such and then 2 transactions

The address does show the 50 bitcoin.
One of the 2 transactions also show the same.
However I’m not sure how to get the priv key from this.
The second transaction it shows is not recognized by block explorer.
Is that a hash of the priv.key? I ran it threw sha256 but still nothing.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-07-25. Score: 2

Bitcoin transactions and addresses are public knowledge; there is no way to calculate a private key by looking at a transaction/address.

You'll need to find the private keys themselves, otherwise your coins will remain un-spendable.


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