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Man Who Forgot Bitcoin Password Accepts Fate
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By Wade Sheridan
Jan. 14 (UPI) -
- Stefan Thomas, of San Francisco, says he has made peace with forgetting his Bitcoin password that would turn him into a multi- millionaire.
Thomas, who recently was fea- tured in The New York Times, has about $220 mil- lion worth of Bitcoin locked away on a hard drive that will erase its data after 10 password
attempts.
Thomas has tried to put in the cor- rect password eight times with no luck. The German-born pro- grammer lost the piece of paper containing the password.
"You sort of ques- tion your own self-worth. What kind of person loses something this important?" Thomas said dur- ing a recent inter- view with ABC7 News before detailing how he has come to
terms with what happened.
"It was actually a really big mile- stone in my life where, like, I sort of realized how I was going to define my self- worth going for- ward. It wasn't going to be about how much money I have in my bank account," he said.
Thomas said he told his story to help prevent oth- ers from forget- ting their pass- words.
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