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

submitted 5 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This was when BTC was like 5 cents and no one had learned this lesson yet.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

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...

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I'm fuckwit.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

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