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Man told he can't recover £598M of Bitcoin from tip

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0r0dvgpy0o

by rorylawless • 2 years ago

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ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

If you search thru HN for the various submissions over the course of this case (over a decade old at this point!) you can see the wildly changing values of the bitcoin in the headlines.

Once it was 6M, then 181M, then 80M, now it's 598M! Haha

bell-cot• 2 years ago

Any technology which gives you the ultimate power, to do whatever you want...also gives you the power to accidentally blow off your own foot.

Techno-utopians seldom mention that.

grues-dinner• 2 years ago

They just expect it to be someone else's foot. When code is law, they hope to be the judge and jury.

hindsightbias• 2 years ago

This should be a Tom Hanks movie.

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