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re: Man in SF has 2 password tries left before he loses forever 220 million dollars
Posted on 1/12/21 at 12:50 pm to TotalYatMove
Posted on 1/12/21 at 12:50 pm to TotalYatMove
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wonder how much he could sell it for to a hacker group or someone like Elon Musk that has the resources to maybe crack it.
For the password issue maybe, but if the drive dats gets encrypted he is SOL, Musk, the NSA, FBI, no one will be able to recover it. It is the nature of the mathematics used in encryption, without the key the math cannot be “unraveled”. The FBI has warehouses full of encrypted hard drives that contain data related to criminal cases, the hope that n a decade or so supercomputers will advance to where a algorithm can be created to un-encrypt the drives.
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Posted on 1/12/21 at 12:54 pm to jchamil
quote:There is...only 1 way. That password.
There has got to be a way to get that info
There is no other way.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 12:55 pm to lsu777
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It would be like someone robbing a bank full of gold and saying...just put the gold back. Doesnt work that away
I get it. It's all by design. It's just not a design I think is particularly useful. It's nice that Bitcoin is independent, scarce, and decentralized, but so are gold, silver, ammunition, diamonds (back off neckbeards!), etc.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 12:56 pm to AUCE05
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The guy rumored the master mind of btc was said to have 1MM btc on a hard drive that was lost when he died.
Oh so that’s what is on that hard drive I found. BRB
Posted on 1/12/21 at 12:58 pm to TDsngumbo
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The fact that he just had it written down on a piece of paper makes him the dumbest mother fricker of all time.
Probably did it when BTC wasn’t worth much so didn’t seem important. Whoopsie
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:00 pm to Robin Masters
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Somewhere I have a digital wallet with a minuscule amount of BC that I bought about 6 years ago. Maybe $50 worth
50 dollars worth 6 years ago might be worth a decent bit tbh
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:01 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Hope he wrote down his first 8 tries.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:04 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
If he hasnt been writing them down hes probably used the same wrong one multiple times 
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:05 pm to redfish99
Has he had to prove he is not a bot by selecting the boxes with motorcycle in it
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:07 pm to deltaland
quote:
50 dollars worth 6 years ago might be worth a decent bit tbh
Would be worth about 5k
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:09 pm to USMEagles
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I get it. It's all by design. It's just not a design I think is particularly useful. It's nice that Bitcoin is independent, scarce, and decentralized, but so are gold, silver, ammunition, diamonds (back off neckbeards!), etc.
well it pretty much is digital gold that can be converted instantly to other coins, fiat money, even stocks and precious metals.
and what you think is not particularly useful is what gives it the value. I dont find gold very useful yet I still understand why its worth what its worth.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:11 pm to EA6B
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For the password issue maybe, but if the drive dats gets encrypted he is SOL, Musk, the NSA, FBI, no one will be able to recover it. It is the nature of the mathematics used in encryption, without the key the math cannot be “unraveled”. The FBI has warehouses full of encrypted hard drives that contain data related to criminal cases, the hope that n a decade or so supercomputers will advance to where a algorithm can be created to un-encrypt the drives.
this seems to be an issue with the OT. I dunno if its ignorance on the subject or its lack of math skills, but most on here struggle with the ability to understand you can't just hire someone to crack encryption. If that was the case, our military network would be cracked.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:44 pm to lsu777
P=NP
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Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:51 pm to Obtuse1
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If you leave your house to buy a new set of tires for $1000 and you have $1000 in BTC when you leave your house it could be $950 by the time you step up to the counter to pay your bill.
Seems super easy to pay for the tires before leaving the house
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:51 pm to loopback
quote:Other than $220million, nope nothing else.
So he might lose "220 million" worth of Bitcoin, so basically he will lose a perfectly good hard drive and nothing else.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:51 pm to MoarKilometers
Which one of you is Hester?
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:53 pm to gthog61
quote:Tell that to the people who didn't lose their 7k BTC and retired early.
shows you that at its core bitcoin is nothing but worthless "find a bigger fool" bullshite
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:55 pm to jeffsdad
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Hope he wrote down his first 8 tries.
Would really suck for him if he actually knew the correct password and tried to type it in and just didn't press the shift key hard enough for one of the letters and now thinks it was entirely wrong and has moved in another direction.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:56 pm to Robin Masters
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Somewhere I have a digital wallet with a minuscule amount of BC that I bought about 6 years ago. Maybe $50 worth. And I can’t locate it.
Same here. It's on a bitcoin app but it's asking me for a 12 word recovery phrase. I vaguely remember having to do this but can't remember where I wrote it down and I've moved since then. It's probably only worth like $500 or so right now but it's the principal
Posted on 1/12/21 at 1:58 pm to kywildcatfanone
quote:People keep saying this, but that's not how it works.
Maybe he should do a password reset.
But I'm sure the company support would help him. All he has to do is ask, and maybe pay them some. Seems to be a non story.
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