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Have you had a bad day? Read this…<\/p>\n

Bitcoin has become one of the hottest topics, with crypto-currency reaching its peak over the last few weeks<\/strong>. Now, a New York Times article reports that numerous owners have had their Bitcoin wallets blocked after forgetting their passwords.<\/p>\n

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Stefan Thomas, a German programmer based in San Francisco, received 7,002 Bitcoins in 2011. Now, worth approximately $220 million, his account is about to be blocked<\/strong> when there are only two attempts left to enter the password<\/strong>. The wallet is secured with a small hard drive called IronKey, which gives users 10 attempts to guess the password before encrypting the content forever. Thomas has lost the paper with the password for years.<\/p>\n

So far, he has tried eight different password combinations, all of which have failed. About the future of his money, he is desperate: “I’d lie in bed and think about it. Then I’d go to the computer with some new strategy, and it wouldn’t work, and I’d be desperate again,<\/strong>” he shares. Thomas has placed his IronKey in a secure facility for now. “I got to a point where I said to myself, ‘Let it go, just for your own mental health”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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