🚨 Could \$250 million in Bitcoin be locked away forever? 💰🔐 Programmer Stefan Thomas is in the midst of an intense crypto crisis — he has only two password guesses left to access a Bitcoin wallet holding over \$250 million! 😱💸 In 2011, Thomas earned 7,002 BTC by creating an explainer video. He secured the wallet’s private keys on an ultra-secure IronKey device, but then forgot the password. 😬🔑 With IronKey allowing only 10 total attempts (and Thomas having already used 8 incorrect guesses), the stakes couldn’t be higher. One more wrong move could lock away the fortune permanently. ⏳💀

Even a crypto startup offered to crack the password, but Thomas turned them down, choosing to stick with existing recovery agreements. 🤝📜 Astonishingly, he remains calm and active in the crypto community — all while his \$250M sits frozen like treasure in a digital vault. ❄️🪙 It’s one of the wildest password puzzles in tech history, and the saga is far from over.