Current Events > Man has 2 GUESSES left to access his 220 MILLION in BITCOIN or its GONE FOREVER!

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Full Throttle
01/12/21 7:41:40 PM
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Would you have a meltdown if you lost out 220 million all because you forgot your password?


Stefan Thomas, a German man living in San Francisco told the New York times he was gifted 7002 Bitcoins by an early cryptocurrency fanatic in 2011 after creating "What is Bitcoin?"

And now 9 years later, the computer programmer is LOCKED ou tof his digital wallet containing 220 MILLION worth of Bitcoins with only 2 GUESSES left to figure out his password before the contents are encrypted and locked FOREVER!!

But he lost his password known as a digital key to the online wallet and despite trying all his regular combinations, he has remained locked out of his prize that has soared in the past month

He said "I would just lay in bed and think about it. Then i would go to the computer with some new strategy, and it wouldn't work, and i would be desperate again"

While he has kept hold of bitcoin in other wallets that have made him rich, he still joins the many holders who lost the chance at adding to their wealth all because of lost passwords

They are forced to watch others cash in while their own money is behind an ironkey, a system which gives users only 10 attempts before it encrypts

According to the NYT, 18.5 million Bitcoin, worth now 140 billion are currently being held in stranded wallets

The value of bitcoin rose dramatically and has now 3 times the number of daily requests with 70 people a day placing requests for aid in recovering their riches

One man, Brad Yasar said he spent hundreds of hours trying to remmber his password and now placed the hard drives that contain the bitcoin in vacuum sealed bags and out of sight cause he doesn't want to be reminded every day what he lost

Thomas is also keeping his mind off of it stating "I got to a point where i said ot myself, let it be in the past, just for your own mental health"

Would you have a meltdown if you lost access to your 220 MILLION smackers all because you forgot your password?

Thomas - Lost 220 Million

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Irony
01/12/21 7:42:36 PM
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That's rough buddy

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yutterh
01/12/21 7:42:49 PM
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Damn, is there no way to get back in if you forgot the password?

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g0ldie
01/12/21 7:43:01 PM
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that's crazy

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darkphoenix181
01/12/21 7:46:11 PM
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Where money
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PMarth2002
01/12/21 7:47:33 PM
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oof, hope he figures it out. There's no way to retrieve a lost password with bitcoin?

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eston
01/12/21 7:49:33 PM
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ZeroX91
01/12/21 7:52:40 PM
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https://youtu.be/yvHrNlAF0Y0


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BobLoblaw_
01/12/21 7:55:40 PM
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yutterh posted...
Damn, is there no way to get back in if you forgot the password?
I dont think there is if you stored in a wallet and you forget the password to the wallet plus the recovery key and they might not even of had recovery keys back then then youre pretty much screwed theres no way to retrieve the data.


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nfearurspecimn
01/12/21 7:56:17 PM
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ngl I kinda feel sorry for him lol

ZeroX91 posted...
keylogger wouldn't help him now

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DD Divine
01/12/21 7:56:49 PM
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Try Boobs

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nfearurspecimn
01/12/21 7:57:15 PM
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DD Divine posted...
Try KNOCKERS
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ZeroX91
01/12/21 8:00:36 PM
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nfearurspecimn posted...
ngl I kinda feel sorry for him lol

keylogger wouldn't help him now
Mighta helped somebody else tho is what im sayin. In my experience people that actually mess around with that crypto shit either are Philly D fans that get scammed by youtube comments or are involved in some silk road type shinnangains.

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DD Divine
01/12/21 10:27:41 PM
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nfearurspecimn posted...
fixed

goldeneye right? I was going with The Office reference.

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Zikten
01/12/21 10:34:29 PM
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That's rough. I'd probably go insane if that was me
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