DPinBucks
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To paraphrase Oscar Wilde:The workd of bitcoins is a mystery to me, and long may it remain so!
It's the gullible in pursuit of the worthless.
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde:The workd of bitcoins is a mystery to me, and long may it remain so!
A consumer grade drive after going through a trash compactor and spending 10 years in landfill will not be in a happy state (which makes me slightly dubious about his claim to be an "IT engineer", because he's far too optimistic).
What, has he found it?What a story!
Story is years old, I suspect no change.What, has he found it?
You missed the subtle irony in my post (note the quote)?Story is years old, I suspect no change.
Same. It's all crypto this and crypto that... goes right over my head (yes, I know this post is over a year old).The workd of bitcoins is a mystery to me, and long may it remain so!
I can see why he is an 'unhappy' man - but needs to remember, when he was 'Mining' the coins were only worth pennies, not millions....He’s back…again
Newport: Can AI help find lost £227m Bitcoin fortune?
James Howells says his lost cryptocurrency is still waiting to be unearthed at a rubbish tip.www.bbc.co.uk
He claims the coins were worth £4 million when the hard drive was thrown away.I can see why he is an 'unhappy' man - but needs to remember, when he was 'Mining' the coins were only worth pennies, not millions....
No, apparently the anonymity of Bitcoin is its strength and, in this case, its weakness. In the early days of Bitcoin many people found their wallets mysteriously emptied with nothing they could do about it.I don't know anything about Bitcoin, but is his holding not recorded on a server somewhere out in cyberspace?
Not in any useable sense. The transactions (his bitcoin rewards for 'mining' or any other bitcoins that were sent to him) will have been recorded on the Blockchain just like any other. But to access his coins he needs the wallet where he stored them along with the private key to access them.I don't know anything about Bitcoin, but is his holding not recorded on a server somewhere out in cyberspace?
^Howells doesn’t have the physical hard drive (it’s ‘suspected’ to be in the rubbish dump) so the above password cracking won’t work, as they have nothing to crackThere was an interesting story in Wired, a company had figured out how to prevent the USB's max # of attempts routine wiping the contents and then how to figure out the password with brute force
But strangely Howells isn't interested and also hasn't persuade other routes he claims to have started
They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird
Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.www.wired.com
The encrypted versions of the data are stored across multiple servers in cyberspace and can be accessed by anybody. The key (to your wallet) is personal to you and back then (this is going a number of years) it was usually stored as a password protected file on your local computer. These days you can store the key online with 2FA and ways of recoverying it.I don't know anything about Bitcoin, but is his holding not recorded on a server somewhere out in cyberspace?
^Howells doesn’t have the physical hard drive (it’s ‘suspected’ to be in the rubbish dump) so the above password cracking won’t work, as they have nothing to crack