HAH...
I remember there being some story quite a while ago where somebody was the "manager" of a bunch of people's bit coin/crypto currency things and unexpectedly, they died .... with no plans made for backups of all the passwords and decryption keys to computers/laptops he had been using.
I imagine SO many angry gamblers makin this face
:frothingfash:
That's even funnier because the whole point of shit like crypto is that you can do it yourself and you don't need a manager for it
The entire Bitcoin experiment is an ant farm in which libertarians re-discover and construct the modern banking system from scratch and still fail to learn anything from doing so.
I'd imagine that the person was doing more speculating in the crypto market place than just buying Bit Coins and sitting on them.
Don't forget that time the founder of the massive bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox abruptly shut it down and ran away with the money!
lmao.
Fun fact, I made like $200 off of bitcoin once but decided to quit while I was ahead.
I got ~10 BTC off a faucet a long time ago, way before it was worth anything really. Then completely forgot about the thing until it started really taking off and slapped myself in the head HARD.
You mean you missed out on that first huge spike it had? Did you make any money off of it in the end?
Nope. Lost the wallet.dat when my computer's hard drive failed and didn't think anything of it until bitcoin started making the evening news.
Aww geez that must have sucked. I've heard so many stories like that involving crypto.
I did try to find the file in an external drive I kept as a backup, but late teenaged me only cared about my pirated music and pictures apparently. I thought "well, I lost around 1500 US". I didn't really think the price would climb the way it did. Then it reached 10,000 US in 2017 - 2018 and that's when it really did suck.
I've read about the guys who gave away 10,000 BTC for pizza in the beginning and I can't help but wonder if the guy who got the bitcoins held onto them and is now living a lavish lifestyle and talking about bootstraps.
That's not very safe, you should add numbers in there to be safe. My password for instance is "password1234".
i know this is a joke but you can’t choose your bitcoin private key
Had half a bitcoin in like 2010 that i spent maybe $50 on, didn't know wtf i was doing, stored info on a flip phone, deleted abusive messages from ex and accidentally deleted all messages. Bitcoin goes up to 10-15k. Spent a month somewhat literally losing my mind trying to think of every possible password, trying to relive the state i was in when i made the account, remembering fragments of the username, password, and mneumonic, emailing support, calling cellphone forensics places in multiple states, all failed. Pretty obvious PSA these days but don't be a dumb ass, keep your crypto safe and write your passwords down on something physical.
On the bright side i had some change leftover from a weed purchase a few months ago that just multiplied enough to buy a couple hundred bucks of mushrooms. 🍄
(we need a psilocybe emote)
Had 32 BTC I spent on some weed and a few LSD tabs years ago (was worth little at the time - like 9$ a BTC). At least I spent it though - your situation must've been infuriating.
On the bright side i had some change leftover from a weed purchase a few months ago that just multiplied enough to buy a couple hundred bucks of mushrooms.
Did the exact same things with some weed thanks to the price rising (had like 15$ worth that became 60$).
On shrooms, may I suggest in the future trying to grow your own ? so much more satisfying, not to mention incredibly cheaper. Did a quick writeup here.
pheweee 32! Yeah it was definitely infuriating but I eventually reached a state of zen-like detachment, also I haven't lost a password since ha.
Did the exact same things with some weed thanks to the price rising (had like 15$ worth that became 60$).
That's awesome! It was definitely a nice little surprise to see the price had more than quadrupled like last week from when I bought em a while back.
I 100% agree everyone should grow their own shrooms and that's a good writeup! I've done a PF tek grow and a couple monotub grows with rye and coir in the past (I used Damion's tek as well!) but it ain't an option with my current housing situation. I've been thinking about trying the uncle ben's thing with a sclerotia species though, it'd take longer but I can't imagine anything being stealthier or simpler.
I love the deep chiaroscuro on the shadow cast by the should-have-been-a-millionaire. The slightly askew shoulders, the wrinkle in his unironed shirt. This is Art.
I wouldn't call anything in that picture chiaroscuro except maybe the self-shadow on the shirt.
There are ways of imagining and cracking those drives. Ones that are expensive but doable. Dudes just being a baby.
There has to be a way to rip the data into a VM and then Brute Force it.
If it was properly encrypted, no amount of brute force will work - not in realistic timelines (as in, less than centuries), even with GPUs and the like. It doesn't apply to bitcoin only, as an aside: if you were to encrypt something with a large GPG key, for example, even the largest intelligence agencies / state actors on the planet wouldn't be able to decrypt it without the key.
Unbreakable encryption has been available to everyone for a long time now, and will stay there until quantum computing takes off (if it ever does).
But if you have an idea that the password is from a password bank of this guy - suddenly decryption takes way less time.
He’s being a baby about it, as he could probably hire someone to setup a way to get more guesses for a large sum of money, but less than 220 million. There’s a good chance this article existed so he could sell the drive for a few million to someone who has the resources.
Right? Imagine swallowing the Bitcoin kool aid so hard you actually think it can't be hacked. Holy shit the delusions on this guy.
These stories must be bait, they probably recuperate the dislike of rich people by making us look petty or something.
