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The Times reports that while some Bitcoin investors become wealthy, others have had difficulty accessing their investments because they have forgotten their passwords.
Thomas has put the IronKey in a safe facility for now, just in case someone comes up with a way to crack the complicated password. He said, "I got to a point where I said to myself, 'Let it be in the past, just for your own mental health'.
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Healthy Living. Only a few people in the world can do it. And even then, it's kind of high risk. It could just fail, and then the chip is destroyed and you don't get a second try.
Flipboard Link icon An image of a chain link. And apparently I didn't do a very good job of that. A program has been created to extract that data from your wallet without that we have access to the funds. And then with that technique, you should be able to bypass that limit of 10 tries, and then you can have a supercomputer try, you know, billions of passwords per second. Of course, you have access to more info than a hacker might, so putting together a list of passwords can streamline the process and could increase the success rate. Grow from Acorns.
Back then, it definitely wasn't worth it. I think now it probably is worth it.
But it still requires a lot of organizing and logistics, and even then it's not guaranteed. Now that this has been in the news, I'm getting lots and lots of people reaching out, some of whom are the types of people who have access to that kind of equipment and the kind of expertise needed.
And so I'm talking to them to see, you know, if we should attempt a recovery and, like, what it would cost, etcetera. So what happens? I mean, hundreds of millions of dollars are now sort of locked up Where does it go?
Who gets it? Because I'm not selling those Bitcoins, that means that there's a little bit less supply in the market Other holders, in theory, profit.
Although you have to imagine, like because of this risk, maybe there are people that maybe don't invest in bitcoin because they're worried about this. And so maybe that kind of makes up for it and kind of that reduces the price. So, again, that's probably almost a better question for an economist to opine on.
There are those who are saying that this now just belies the value of investing in this kind of bitcoin. For all the advantages it has, that you don't have to deal with institutions and governments, that obviously it has its pitfalls. And so are you one of those?
Are you one of the people who think that maybe this kind of currency is not a good idea? This experience has definitely changed my opinion about bitcoin in terms of I was one of those people that was very excited about, you know, everyone can be their own bank and that sort of thing. I know there's lots of bitcoin experts listening right now saying that, "This could never happen to me! Nowadays, my belief is that I think it's really nice that we live in a free country where we can have the choice and we can hold our own bitcoins if we want to.
And I think that's a right that I would fight for preserving. There have been some discussions in the U. But at the same time, I think that as a practical matter, for most people, it's probably better to hold their bitcoins with a custodian, like an institution that specializes in securing and storing bitcoins. Facebook finds Chinese hacking operation targeting Uyghurs.
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