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Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 26 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I almost bought $20 worth of bitcoin when it was $.008 a bitcoin, which would be worth $168,000,000 today.

But realistically I would have cashed out a long time ago, so it would have been far less significant. I had some friends who bought at the same time though, one bought a car and the other got a healthy downpayment for his house.