Bitcoin
It must be heart-breaking
He had no idea he was sitting on a fortune
Not all hacking stories are bad
Imagine knowing you missed out on billions of dollars
A good strategy, but we bet there’s something this guy wishes he’d done differently
The timing wasn’t great
In what sounds like the heartbreaking crypto sketch in The Big Bang Theory, one man has lost access to his $829m Bitcoin empire that he started with a few thousand dollars in 2011. Back as kids, we used to throw pennies into a jar in the hope that enough spare change would amount to a […]
Not bad as far as investments go
It turned out to be a savvy investment.
Spoiler alert: no one here bought a yacht.
Having forgotten the password to his encrypted IronKey hard drive, Stefan Thomas has just two guesses remaining to access his $240 million Bitcoin fortune.
His chances are slim but for $200 million, he’s refusing to give up.
And experts warn it’s going to get worse in the next few months.
It happened during one of the worst crypto crashes in the last five years.