boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoResearchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoinarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1471arrow-down111
arrow-up1460arrow-down1external-linkResearchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoinarstechnica.comboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareRedEye FlightControl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·4 months agoThis was when BTC was like 5 cents and no one had learned this lesson yet.
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·4 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-squareevatronic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agoThere’s an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I’m fuckwit.
minus-squareGreatAlbatross@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 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