HAL1000 Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 But hackers are helping owners regain access to their digital funds. https://interestingengineering.com/140-billion-in-bitcoin-is-lost-due-to-forgotten-passwords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianwalden Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Where is this that people are locked out of their Bitcoin wallets by passwords? Are they hacking the password to access an encrypted file containing the secret key? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarChest Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 This story from 2013 still pops up on slow news days. Bitcoin: Newport man's plea to find £210m hard drive in tip https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55658942 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianwalden Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, WarChest said: This story from 2013 still pops up on slow news days. Bitcoin: Newport man's plea to find £210m hard drive in tip https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55658942 That article said he first contacted the city several months after he realized he threw the hard drive away. That would have been late 2013 or 2014. He could have just bought more and been rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarChest Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 8 minutes ago, brianwalden said: That article said he first contacted the city several months after he realized he threw the hard drive away. That would have been late 2013 or 2014. He could have just bought more and been rich. No idea of his circumstances, maybe he did? Probably still wants to find that Drive anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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