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ETH JUST BLASTED PAST4,000! BUCKLE UP! 🚀🚀* $ETH #ETHBreaks4000 #CryptoIn401k
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In 2011, a German-American programmer named Stefan Thomas was paid 7,002 bitcoins for creating a simple animated video titled *“What is Bitcoin?”*—a task he completed when the cryptocurrency was worth only a few dollars. Believing in the tech but not expecting much, Stefan stored the bitcoins on a small IronKey USB device, one of the most secure digital wallets on Earth. The problem? IronKey allows only ten password attempts before it permanently encrypts its contents, making them forever inaccessible. Over time, Stefan lost the slip of paper containing the password, and now, more than a decade later, the value of those bitcoins has soared to over \$800 million—but the key to accessing them remains locked behind a forgotten phrase. By 2021, Stefan had already used eight of his ten attempts, and each failed try brought him closer to losing his fortune forever. He sought out cryptographers, cybersecurity experts, and even companies offering to break into the device for a percentage of the reward. But all came back with the same cold truth: the IronKey’s encryption was built to be unbreakable. There was no backdoor, no reset button, and no recovery line to call. As he admitted in interviews, Stefan had to emotionally detach himself from the reality of what was stored on that thumb-sized vault, knowing that one wrong move could make his digital gold vanish for good. Stefan Thomas’s story has become a cautionary tale in the crypto world—a modern fable about the fragility of memory in a time of decentralized wealth. It’s not a story of greed or carelessness, but of the very human tendency to forget, even when what’s at stake is extraordinary. In a world where passwords guard empires and a single phrase can unlock millions, his experience echoes a broader truth: that in the digital age, our greatest riches may one day slip through our fingers—not because we lost them, but because we forgot how to find them. #btc #crypto #cryptouniverseofficial $BTC
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