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I bought some bitcoins a few years ago using Bitcoin Core.
I have since discarded my computer as it broke.
Where/how can I find my bitcoins?
Where can I find my Bitcoin core key?
Answers
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If you recover your wallet.dat file, you can import it into a working bitcoin node and sweep the wallet. You must have access to the hard drive of the broken computer.
Your wallet.dat file can be located at:
Linux ~/.bitcoin/
Mac ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
Windows%APPDATA%\Bitcoin
You can also import the .dat file into blockchain.com which naturally I do not recommend since it defeats the purpose of decentralization.
Thanks for your response. However, as the computer was thrown away, I do not have access to the hard drive. Can I not access them online somehow? – Daisyur92 – 2017-11-29T10:05:06.530
If you can access them online, someone else can too. Unless you, today, hold the private keys to the wallet you lost, those bitcoins are gone in a limbo forever. – Monstrum – 2017-11-30T15:08:21.790
Is there no way of accessing them using my email, payment details or computer reference? – Daisyur92 – 2017-12-01T16:30:53.023
quick reply: in your backup, you should have a file called "wallet.dat". No backup = no keys = lost funds. Search the forum, there are many questions like yours... You might then answer the qwuestion yourself, so it can get closed. – pebwindkraft – 2017-11-28T12:19:22.190
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is too localized. There is no way to provide a canonical answer since it depends on your prior actions, such as taking a backup. – Max Vernon – 2017-11-28T17:41:01.400