As reported by the Times, of the existing 18.5 million Bitcoin, around 20 per cent - currently worth around $140 billion - appear to be contained inside lost or otherwise stranded wallets, according to the cryptocurrency data firm Chainalysis. Watching on as prices rise and fall, not even bitcoin themselves can unlock the safe.īut if you think US$245 million is a lot, just wait to hear how much bitcoin has either gone missing or locked away due to more password-forgetting individuals like this guy. Apparently not informative enough, because just that same year, Stefan managed to lose the digital keys to his bitcoin wallet. Handed 7,002 Bitcoins back in 2011 while living in Switzerland after creating an informative animated video about the cryptocurrency.

“I got to a point where I said to myself, ‘Let it be in the past, just for your own mental health,'” he said. With eight unsuccessful attempts already, Stefan has been laying in bed all day long thinking about new strategies to crack the code, according to an expose by the New York Times. Designed to seize up and encrypt itself should the contents fall into the wrong hands, Stefan is as we say, sh*t out of luck, should he fail to remember the correct password. Stefan has two guesses left out of the ten given to him by his Kingston made IronKey bitcoin wallet. Samsung’s Neo QLED 8K TV Range Proves Small Things Come in Big Packagesĥ Best Crypto & Bitcoin Wallets in Australia JBL’s Bar 9.1 Soundbar Offers Dolby Atmos For the First Time Locked out, and with only two guesses left until the wallet is wiped clean for good, will Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, cash in big time or will he lose it all?

We’re here to tell you about this silly US man who forgot the password to his USD$245 million bitcoin wallet. Remember when we said 5G for Under $500 – Samsung Galaxy A Series? Well, it’s fallen a bit since then, but that’s not why we’re here.

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