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

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190 points aorloff | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.322s | 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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xdfgh1112 ◴[04 Jul 25 19:28 UTC] No.44467200[source]▶
Source?

https://x.com/howelzy

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1. volfonibros ◴[05 Jul 25 06:31 UTC] No.44470532[source]▶
I went back to the (french) articles making that claim in headlines and it turns out to be false, thanks.

He lost his appeal in his case against the city authority to search the landfill, so he can't ever search for it. It's a bit buried in his feed in between the announcements about tokenizing part of these legally inaccessible coins.