Programmer with two password guesses left to access £175m bitcoin wallet, what's on your iPod?

That's some story, Lily, Thanks for telling it.

eek 😬

at the moment one is worth $34,000 US.

― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, January 12, 2021 2:54 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oops, i hope my bro didn't have multiple and i was getting it wrong. he is paying a mortgage on a house outside of glasgow which he would have been able to pay off in cash for around 6 bitcoin at that price

xp Eek indeed. I'm not all that upset for myself, as I wasn't in desperate need of the money, but my cousin could really use some running-away money right about now, and unlike me she didn't see this coming. She believed in the bitcoin, and so she really feels like she just lost $30,000 or so.

god that is rough

ah shit, it's that cousin?
Has she still got the 0.1?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA7ycePZujY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4YG02Bzs9E

(xp) lol

yup, that cousin. She does still have the .1.

867-5309

Mods, it just occurred to me that I shouldn't have used my friend's real name in that story. It's not very likely that my cousin's abusive boyfriend is going to stumble on this thread, but he may very well be googling my friend's name + bitcoin right now, as he's obsessed with the idea that my friend stole it, and I don't want to take the chance that he'll find the other thread where I talk about his abuse of my cousin. Would it be possible to either delete the post, X out my friend's name, or de-index the thread from Google? Thank you and sorry for the trouble!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIuYQ_4TcXg

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Lily, you should ask on this thread: Mod request

Lily, your friend's name is now [REDACTED]. Let us know if you want anything more done (mod request forum is the best place to ask but I'll check back in here later). It's a good story though, so if you're cool with this edit then we'll leave it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDC_2zTrpbg

great (infuriating) story, Lily!

https://listenonrepeat.com/?v=smZDTefLZ9M&s=61&e=69#Life_Without_Buildings_-_New_Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e7vfZIC_U0

I've mentioned this before, but for a while I worked in a support/help capacity for a company that made a multicoin digital wallet. I've heard many a tale of woe.

lol and lol xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjMfNVBRN8s

Lily, I know that you have other stuff on your plate, but have you considered talking to a lawyer about this?

cracker, Tom.

Thank you, emil.y. That works! I really appreciate it.

xp I don't really want to talk to a lawyer and don't think it would do much good. I don't know that it was my friend who lost/sold the bitcoin; it could easily have been his business partner. In any case, my friend has already lost quite a lot by being business partners with someone with a gambling addiction; it would really suck for him to now lose an unexpected $70,000 on top of that, when this all started with him trying to do a favor for his friends who would never have invested in bitcoin on their own.

And bitcoin wasn't worth very much in 2014, so nobody actually got $34,000 or whatever from it; they probably got about $150. And my cousin and I could have taken the initiative to find out how bitcoin worked and check the balance on our paper wallets years ago, instead of just hanging onto them and trusting it would all work out. And bitcoin in 2014 wasn't as organized and safe as it is now; it was still very new, there were lots of hacks going on, and people routinely lost huge amounts of coin. Turns out we were among them; we just didn't find out until now.

Basically, the way I see it, this is kind of like going to sell your baseball card collection and finding out your mom gave it away at a yard sale. It sucks, but it happens. I invested in an uncertain and unsafe commodity by handing an envelope with $125 in it to a buddy of mine and then ignoring my investment for six years, and I still made $3,400. I don't really have that much to complain about.

that's a good way to look at things. In addition, if you held the coin digitally yourself and knew how to trade it, you may well have sold it years ago for much less than $3,400.

Kenny Loggins (can he log in!)

:D

Gil Scott Heron "Johannesburg"

("What's the word?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVYfeMmZG0

Eddie Money - Shakin’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6Xk5ppXAo

Bitcoin: Newport man's plea to find £210m hard drive in tip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGe_wKzahgA