re: Man in SF has 2 password tries left before he loses forever 220 million dollars

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I would have placed that password in a safety deposit box at a bank or something. And in a tamper-proof safe at home. In a concrete and steel fortified chamber. Under ground. With a patio build on top of it. With a a spare key to that chamber in a separate box at a different bank in a different state. And another spare key inside a fire proof box inside my walls.

Just to be safe.



The fact that he just had it written down on a piece of paper makes him the dumbest mother fricker of all time.

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It could have been worth next to nothing when he set them up in his wallet. This is true in hindsight, but it's hard to say what was the right way to handle it when he did it.

Well, it's not hard to say that writing it down and losing it was dumb, but there is a large space between that and putting it in Fort Knox.

Eta
I say this without being able to read the article, so if they mentioned a timeline and the value was significant when he transferred them, disregard all that.