@boem to TechnologyEnglish • 7 months agoResearchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoinarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square45arrow-up1471arrow-down111cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1460arrow-down1external-linkResearchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoinarstechnica.com@boem to TechnologyEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square45cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareRedEye FlightControllinkEnglish34•7 months agoThis was when BTC was like 5 cents and no one had learned this lesson yet.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•7 months agoWhen I first acquired it, I wasn’t aware of a place to even check it’s value. There was this old game called Dragon Tales, where you could gamble whole BTC on things like kicking a coconut tree to see if 0-4 BTC worth of coconuts would fall…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•7 months agoThere’s an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I’m fuckwit.
minus-squareGreatAlbatrosslinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoThere is a guy fighting Newport council to let him dig through a landfill at the moment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67297013
This was when BTC was like 5 cents and no one had learned this lesson yet.
When I first acquired it, I wasn’t aware of a place to even check it’s value. There was this old game called Dragon Tales, where you could gamble whole BTC on things like kicking a coconut tree to see if 0-4 BTC worth of coconuts would fall…
There’s an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I’m fuckwit.
There is a guy fighting Newport council to let him dig through a landfill at the moment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67297013