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Man Who Accidentally Threw Away 7,500 Bitcoins on Hard Drive Has New Plan to Retrieve His BTC
10.7.2021
The British man who accidentally threw away a computer with 7,500 bitcoins on its hard drive has come up with a new plan to retrieve his lost coins from the city landfill. “We estimate there are between 300,000 – 400,000 tons of waste to look through,” he said. Man on Mission...
Alex Jones Says He Lost Laptop Containing 10,000 Bitcoins
12.3.2021
The controversial host of Infowars and the Alex Jones Show claims that he has lost a laptop containing 10,000 bitcoins. The laptop was given to him by popular television personality Max Keiser, who confirmed the story. Alex Jones Claims He Lost 10,000 Bitcoins Stored on Laptop Alex Jones,...
Crypto Users Claim Popular Bitcoin Paper Wallet Generator Is Compromised, Millions Allegedly Stolen
25.2.2021
A number of forum posts and tweets say that the website bitcoinpaperwallet.com is compromised and people have said they have lost bitcoin using the paper wallet generator. Three years ago the website domain changed ownership and ever since then losses have been reported on Reddit forums...
Man Accidentally Threw Away Hard Drive With 7,500 Bitcoins, Offers City $72 Million to Search Landfill
15.1.2021
A man has accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins. He is now offering his city 25% of the value of the bitcoins stored in the hard drive for permission to search the city’s landfill site. His bitcoins are now worth almost $300 million at the current price. In Search...
Man Will Give 25% of Lost Bitcoin to COVID Relief if He Can Search Dump for USD 296M Haul
14.1.2021
British media outlets have once again become interested in the case of a Wales-based IT professional who said he threw out a hard drive containing around BTC 7,500 (USD 296m) and who wants to search a landfill for the device, pledging millions of dollars worth of reward to coronavirus charities...
Bitcoiner Loses Password to 7,002 Bitcoins Worth $240 Million
13.1.2021
A bitcoiner has shared his story of how he lost access to his 7,002 bitcoins, worth about $240 million at the current price. He has lost the piece of paper on which he wrote his password and now has two guesses left before his device seizes up and encrypts its contents forever. 7,002 Bitcoins Worth...
Analyst: 1,500 Bitcoins Lost Every Day, Less Than 14 Million Coins Will Ever Circulate
19.9.2020
A cryptocurrency analyst, Timothy Peterson claims that 1,500 bitcoins are lost each day meaning only 14 million BTC will ever circulate. The figure is at odds with the estimate of many organizations including Markets.bitcoin.com which place the figure at 18.5 million coins. Still, Peterson, who...
The 10-year Quest for a Lost Bitcoin Haul Worth Over USD 100 Million
12.8.2020
This week marks the 10th anniversary of an event that illustrates just how far Bitcoin (BTC) has come in a decade – and some of the potential perils that crypto holders need to remain aware of.
On August 10, 2010, a BitcoinTalk forum user bought BTC 9,000, worth about USD 600 at the time. But that...
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Champion Says He Lost Bitcoin Bought in 2015
17.7.2020
Fighter Craig Jones lost Bitcoin he bought before the 2017 ATH, but will now get tokens from a crypto exchange sponsorship
Lost Bitcoin to Skyrocket Unless Investors Start Making Wills
9.7.2020
A looming crypto inheritance crisis could lead to millions of tokens becoming irreparably lost if the findings of a new report prove to be true.
A whopping 89% of surveyed cryptocurrency investors said they, on some level, were concerned about losing their assets when they die, but less than...
Only 3.5 Million Bitcoin Is Traded Worldwide; Majority of BTC Held Long-Term as Digital Gold, Says Chainalysis
21.6.2020
Only 3.5 million bitcoin or 19% of total circulating supply is actively traded throughout the world, while the rest is being held long-term by investors, according to a new report by crypto analytics company Chainalysis. Per the report, nearly 18.6 million bitcoin (BTC) has been mined as of June...
Redditors Hunt Lost Bitcoin Stash, Face Jail Time over Loans
10.6.2020
Crypto folks are having a mixed start to the month, with one man seemingly frustrated in his quest for over USD 5 million worth of missing bitcoin (BTC) – and another looking to stave off the bailiffs as creditors come in search of crypto loan repayments.
A Reddit user who claims he is on the hunt...
Peter Shiff's 'Lost' Bitcoin 'Mystery is Solved'!
23.1.2020
Peter Schiff. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Peter Schiff
An outspoken Bitcoin critic who recently rage-quit crypto has been forced into an embarrassing u-turn – after mixing up his wallet PIN with his password.
Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and one of the most prominent...
BBC: New Files Allegedly Connect $450M in Lost Bitcoin to Russian Intelligence
15.11.2019
Recent BBC investigation into the BTC-e crypto exchange case reveals new details allegedly connecting lost funds to Russia’s FSB