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Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 121 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (14 children)

And then there's the famous case of the guy who was super early in on bitcoin and threw away the computer that had the password to the wallet, which eventually wound up being worth hundreds of millions of dollars that are now irretrievable

https://www.businessinsider.com/james-howells-threw-away-bitcoin-dump-masterplan-get-back-2022-7

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 20 points 5 months ago

I drove a pick axe through a drive with 1 btc I bough for shits and giggles at $20 when I was a kid. I damaged the drive pulling it out if a damn HP so I just did a low-level format. Never though it be worth anything.

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