Stefan Thomas lost the paper where he wrote down the password for his IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 bitcoins.

lmao I hope he gets desperate the next time bitcoin spikes & pays some cryptology firm to 'crack' it and they wipe it by accident.

  • snackage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    He didn't even code it. Dude just wrote a fucking white paper bad got a bunch of other people to help with the work

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, and that makes it even more astounding. He published a paper about a theoretical currency and got thousands of computer scientists to dedicate their lives to it. Not even Jesus could attract such devoted followers.

      • snackage [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        CompSci is still in the humors phase of its development as a science or engineering discipline and I'm a software dev.