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@boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin

arstechnica.com

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Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin

arstechnica.com

@boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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A flaw with the digital wallet and a bit of luck did the trick.
  • RedEye FlightControl
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    This was when BTC was like 5 cents and no one had learned this lesson yet.

    • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      15•1 year 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
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      There’s an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I’m fuckwit.

      • GreatAlbatross
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        2•1 year 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

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