Oh dear! What a bummer … just imagine what you would be doing right now!
Taken from BBC … programmer Stefan Thomas has forgotten password that will let him unlock a hard drive containing $240m (£175m) worth of Bitcoin. His plight, reported in the New York Times, has gone viral.
Ex-Facebook security head Alex Stamos has offered to help – for a 10% cut.
Bitcoin has surged in value in recent months. One bitcoin is currently worth $34,000. But the cryptocurrency is volatile. And experts are divided about whether it will continue to rise or crash.
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Mr Thomas, who was born in Germany but lives in San Francisco, was given 7,002 bitcoins as payment for making a video explaining how cryptocurrency works more than a decade ago. At the time, they were worth a few dollars each.
He stored them in an IronKey digital wallet on a hard drive. And he wrote the password on a piece of paper he has lost.
After 10 failed attempts, the password will encrypt itself, making the wallet impossible to access.
Source: BBC
