minus-squareGlowstick@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoinlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoAnd 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 linkfedilink
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