Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, received 7,002 Bitcoins in 2011 as payment for creating an educational video about cryptocurrency. At the time, Bitcoin was worth only a few dollars, and he stored the private keys to the coins on an IronKey USB drive. Unfortunately, Thomas lost the password to the device, which only allows 10 password attempts before permanently encrypting its contents. He has already used 8 of those attempts, leaving just 2 chances to unlock what is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars. His story became widely known and is often cited as one of the most extreme cases of lost Bitcoin fortune.
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