Two chances to correctly guess the password to wallet, or lose $220M

https://www.businessinsider.com/programmer-locked-out-220-million-in-bitcoin-forgotten-password-2021-1

by lemonspat • 6 years ago

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aggieben• 6 years ago

Copy to another hard drive. Guess twice. Wipe hard drive. Rinse, wash, repeat. Infinite guesses.

phendrenad2• 6 years ago

Can you copy files from the IronKey without decrypting them?

codevark• 6 years ago

One word: hypnosis. Worked for me in a big way, when I had lost something very valuable and was going nuts trying to remember where I left it (in a drunken journey on foot through a city). I found it, because somewhere deep inside, one part of my brain knew exactly where it was, and the rest of me had forgotten.

Finnucane• 6 years ago

How long before all of bitcoin is lost, stolen, or forgotten wallets?

throw03172019• 6 years ago

Natural burning without protocol changes.

koolba• 6 years ago

Like many here, first thought was “why can’t you clone the drive?”. Apparently, not just a regular drive, it’s a USB stick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronKey

Though if it’s $220M worth on there, I bet you could pay Kingston $100M to figure out a way to image it.

quantified• 6 years ago

Time for a true psychic to show up.

Two chances to correctly guess the password to wallet, or lose $220M

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