A former hacker managed to recover his Bitcoins from his burned hard drive in 2011 10 years later.
Twitter user @jonesushchrist, who describes himself as an 'ex-hacker', posted on Wednesday that he was very close to recovering all of his BTC on an old hard drive that burned down in 2011. The day after the user posted this post, the user shared a screenshot showing that his wallet had reached the wallet.dat file and said, "I'm a millionaire!" Wrote.
He mined 1 BTC a day with his gaming computer
Stating that he will not reveal how much Bitcoin is in the wallet, the user stated that he mined 1 BTC a day on the gaming computer during his adolescence and also bought BTC at $ 2.33 and traded.
The user, who then locked them with the 'Hidden TrueCrypt volume' option, stated that days later he lost the password and a part of his hard disk burned about a year later. The former hacker, who has struggled to save Bitcoins that have been here for 10 years, has finally paid off.
Lost Bitcoins are spoken more frequently with a dramatic increase in price
Lost Bitcoins have come to the fore more frequently in the recent period with the effect of the dramatic increase in price. Recently, Ripple's former CTO, Stefan Thomas, made headlines when he forgot the passwords of his wallet, where he kept 7002 BTC. Thomas has also been trying to access this wallet for years and only 2 of 10 password attempts remain.
A similar story belongs to the Welsh James Howells, 35. In 2013, Howells accidentally dumped the hard drive it had stored in 7,500 BTC, and a few weeks ago asked the municipality to search the city dump for 25 percent of the BTC.
