<p>I'm afraid that if you only have the addresses and not the corresponding private keys you're out of luck here.</p>
<p>To recover a wallet or an address you need to have either the wallet.dat or the private key to a Bitcoin address.</p>
<p>The password you made back then was likely used to encrypt the wallet.dat.</p>

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<p>I purchased Bitcoin in either 2012 or 2013 and at the time noted down 2 sets of 34-character addresses each with a 12 character password, both 34 character strings start with a &quot;1&quot;.</p>
<p>I'm not holding out much hope that I can retrieve them, but can anyone explain what these details might be.</p>
<p>I can't remember logging into anything at the time.</p>

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When you write "12 character password" did you actually mean a 12 **word** *passphrase*?
RedGrittyBrick
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Peter
# Bitcoins purchased in 2013

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-10-18)

I purchased Bitcoin in either 2012 or 2013 and at the time noted down 2 sets of 34-character addresses each with a 12 character password, both 34 character strings start with a "1".

I'm not holding out much hope that I can retrieve them, but can anyone explain what these details might be.

I can't remember logging into anything at the time.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: When you write "12 character password" did you actually mean a 12 **word** *passphrase*?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-10-18. Score: 2

I'm afraid that if you only have the addresses and not the corresponding private keys you're out of luck here.

To recover a wallet or an address you need to have either the wallet.dat or the private key to a Bitcoin address.

The password you made back then was likely used to encrypt the wallet.dat.


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