🗄 Reddit user lost access to his BTC for 7 years due to a typo
In 2017, he encrypted his BIP38 paper wallet with a password he thought was secure. However, in 2024, when he tried to recover it, he couldn't get access. It turned out that the mistake was just one character — he pressed the wrong key.
This story reminds us how important it is to be careful when storing cryptocurrency on your own.
There's anonymous user who has been mining bitcoin every day since November 2016, sending all rewards to a wallet that now holds 4,165 bitcoin worth $375,000,000 and NEVER selling a single one.
The wallet has not been touched in over eight years.