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Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B

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191 points aorloff | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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mattlondon ◴[04 Jul 25 19:06 UTC] No.44467062[source]▶
Maybe that guy who was digging up a landfill to find his old HDD finally found it!

Seriously though, what are the odds that someone has been quietly spending 10s/100s of millions in cloud compute to brute force the keys for old wallets?

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volfonibros ◴[04 Jul 25 19:17 UTC] No.44467123[source]▶
For anyone else who's been vaguely following the story as it popped up every few years, the latest news came out a few days ago : he finally gave up.
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nothrabannosir ◴[04 Jul 25 19:31 UTC] No.44467221[source]▶
That’s definitely also what I would publicize if I actually found the HDD. :)
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1. rtkwe ◴[04 Jul 25 20:25 UTC] No.44467611[source]▶
He lost his court battle to force the local government running the dump to allow him to dig the last I heard. So I doubt it, he wasn't even allowed to really try.