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Millionaire on hold
In a corner of San Francisco, there lives a man who carries a secret stranger than fiction...
His name is Stefan Thomas, a calm-featured programmer, but his story has become the talk of the digital world because it simply encapsulates the dream of wealth and the nightmare at the same time.
Stefan does not just own a small IronKey storage device, but what is inside it: 7,002 bitcoins, worth today more than 800 million dollars.
But the problem is that this huge amount is not in a bank account, nor in a safe… but behind a password he forgot!
IronKey is a device designed with the utmost security: it gives you only ten attempts to enter the password, and if you fail all of them… it locks forever, condemning what is inside to digital death.
Stefan has already used eight attempts… and all of them failed.
Imagine owning the key to the door of wealth, but the key doesn’t work… and you cannot break it, nor make a copy of it.
This is Stefan's reality.
Years ago, he received the bitcoins as a reward for a simple job — producing a video explaining the concept of digital currency. At that time, bitcoins had little value. Time passed, prices jumped, and that modest reward turned into a fantastic treasure.
But Stefan, in a moment of carelessness or overconfidence, wrote the password in a file… then forgot where he put it.
And because bitcoin is not subject to any banking system or recovery entity, forgetting the password simply means: loss forever.
And although his story has attracted the attention of the world's media, and he has been offered help from several parties, the bitter truth remains unchanged:
No one can bypass IronKey's protection. No one.
Today, Stefan lives a simple life. No luxury cars. No palaces. No million-dollar accounts.
Everything he owns, actually, is stored in a small memory device… which he cannot open.
And yet, he did not use the last two attempts. He does not want to take risks. He does not want to close the door completely.
It is a story not just about money, but about memory, trust, and loss...
A story that tells us that technology may give us power, but in a moment it may show us how fragile we are in front of a single line we forget...