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IRL (In Real Life) => Current Events => Topic started by: steve58 on January 14, 2021, 12:50:09 PM
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Stefan Thomas, the programmer who could lose $260 million worth of bitcoin because he can't remember his password, said there's "no chance" he'll ever recoup his lost fortune, calling it a "painful memory."
"It's not like I barely don't remember it," Thomas told NBC's "Today" show. "It's there's no chance of remembering something that complicated from 10 years ago."
Thomas lost the password for his IronKey hard drive, which contains the keys to a digital wallet with 7,002 bitcoin. The hard drive gives users 10 guesses to remember their password before the content is lost forever. Thomas has used eight of those 10 attempts and come up empty every time.
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/programmer-who-could-lose-hundreds-of-millions-in-lost-bitcoin-shares-painful-memory