Here are six stories of BTC and ETH owners who lost access to their coins:
▫️Rain Lohmus, the founder of LHV bank, lost the password to his wallet from where he invested in ETH ICO, which contains 250k ETH (approximately $450 million)
▫️James Howells accidentally discarded a hard drive with the keys to his 7.5 thousand BTC (approximately $250 million) in 2013.
▫️ Stefan Thomas, former CTO of Ripple, forgot the password to a hard drive containing 7,000 BTC (around $240 million) and has only two attempts left to recover it.
▫️Brad Yasar is an investor who mined thousands of bitcoins but lost access because he forgot the passwords to his hard drives.
▫️ Gabriel Abed, a diplomat from Barbados, lost 800 BTC (around $27 million) when his colleague accidentally formatted a laptop with the private keys.
▫️David Arakhamia, a Ukrainian politician, accidentally deleted a file encrypted with the private key of 400 BTC (approximately $14 million) while trying to erase his hard drive.
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