[Theoria]

[dfwgator]

[Reno89519]

Just too funny.

[Joe 6-pack]

Smart enough to invest when he did...

...stupid enough to forget his password.

[PGR88]

On May 22, 2010, now known as Bitcoin Pizza Day, software developer Laszlo Hanyecz agreed to pay 10,000 Bitcoins for two delivered Papa John’s pizzas. This was the first bitcoin commercial transaction.

The present market value of those bitcoins / two pizzas is $350,000,000

[HotHunt]

Am I the only one who thinks these people are the most brain dead on the planet?

They claim to own something (I don't even know what bitcoin is or are) that's worth $220 million and they can't access it and may lose it all, because they can't remember their password?

Sounds like the biggest scam outside of the climate change hoax I've ever heard of.

[ShadowAce]

Tech Ping

BTW--I have zero sympathy for him or anyone else who forgets a password.

[The Louiswu]

Same thing happened to Sheldon and Leonard on the Big Bang Theory several years ago...: )

[Vision]

If ONLY he had gone with, password.

[Flick Lives]

The problem is that Mr. Thomas years ago lost the paper where he wrote down the password for his IronKey...

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Perfect. ‘Cause writing down a password on a sheet of paper is super secure, especially when dealing with a possible $200M fortune.

I’d give him a strategy, other than exhausting his last two guesses, but he’s too stupid to warrant help.

In fact, considering the alleged amount of money involved, I’m beginning to think this story is fake. Nobody could be this dumb.

[JonPreston]

[broken_clock]

Lol,I always use “invalid”. That way you type in anything and the PC says, your password is invalid :-)

[DeFault User]

Now I don’t feel bad about forgetting passwords.

I miss the good old days some 20 years ago when a five character password would unlock any site I was subscribed to. Now I think the only one that it works with is Free Republic.

[Beowulf9]

I would think these people would have a little black book with all their passwords in it for their different locations. Isn’t that pretty much what people do?

[Gay State Conservative]

I have trouble finding any sympathy for him for several reasons.I do wonder however, how much real currency (dollars,pounds,euros,swiss francs,yen,etc) that’s involved.

[Pollard]

After he wrote it down, he should have put it in a safe deposit box.

[Vaduz]

But what happens when you can’t access that wealth.

The fisherman turns on the electric reel.

[minnesota_bound]

Don’t lose the flashdrive it is on either.

The Big Bang Theory - The Bitcoin Entanglement S11E09
https://youtu.be/Cc-Hbklizzk?t=135

[ConservativeInPA]

Thanks for the chart - first thing I looked for in my trading software when I saw the headline before clicking on your post. I don't trade Bitcoin, but I knew it was recently down a chunk.

Sounds like the NY Times told a so-called journalist to find something to write about Bitcoin. More interesting is what happening to the USD. It was up to 1.23489 against the EUR last week. Massive devaluation on the spot market. Compare that to when the EURUSD was trading around 1.05 to 1.06 prior to the all of the faux ChiCom flu shutdown of the economy.

I'm not sure the NY Times is smart enough, so it may be by accident, but stories about lost Bitcoins are a distraction from what is really going on the the currency market. Look over here. Not there.

[I want the USA back]

When there's that much at stake you just don't lose or forget the password! Writing it on piece of paper is not enough.