🔐😱 HE HAS 7,002 BITCOIN AND ONLY 2 ATTEMPTS LEFT TO RECOVER THEM
What happened to this person is incredible... In 2011, programmer Stefan Thomas was paid 7,002 $BTC for making a video explaining what Bitcoin is. He stored them on a special USB drive called an IronKey and wrote the password on a piece of paper... which he lost.
The problem is that the USB drive only allows 10 attempts: if the tenth attempt fails, it locks forever. He’s already used 8. Today, those Bitcoin would be worth more than 500 million dollars, and he only has 2 attempts left.
My take: this makes me think that in crypto, the worst enemy sometimes isn’t the market—it’s yourself. A lost password can be worth more than any hack.
What would you do with only 2 attempts? Would you try, or leave it stored away forever?
#Bitcoin
What happened to this person is incredible... In 2011, programmer Stefan Thomas was paid 7,002 $BTC for making a video explaining what Bitcoin is. He stored them on a special USB drive called an IronKey and wrote the password on a piece of paper... which he lost.
The problem is that the USB drive only allows 10 attempts: if the tenth attempt fails, it locks forever. He’s already used 8. Today, those Bitcoin would be worth more than 500 million dollars, and he only has 2 attempts left.
My take: this makes me think that in crypto, the worst enemy sometimes isn’t the market—it’s yourself. A lost password can be worth more than any hack.
What would you do with only 2 attempts? Would you try, or leave it stored away forever?
#Bitcoin
