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

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189 points aorloff | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.544s | 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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nixass ◴[04 Jul 25 19:28 UTC] No.44467203[source]▶
> he finally gave up

Sounds like something someone who found few billion USD on a thumb drive would say :)

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1. hinkley ◴[05 Jul 25 02:46 UTC] No.44469760[source]▶
Has he opened a bar instead?
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2. volemo ◴[05 Jul 25 05:25 UTC] No.44470266[source]▶
He named it Puzzles.