Recovery firm proposes cracking former Ripple CTO’s $244M Bitcoin hard drive

2023-10-26 00:32

Stefan Thomas, the former chief technology officer at Ripple, has an IronKey hard drive containing 7,002 BTC with only two attempts at guessing a password remaining.

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Remember That Guy That Lost A Flashdrive With 8,000 BTC? Here’s What He’s Up To Now

James Howells, a Welsh Bitcoin investor and the man who inadvertently lost $557 million worth of BTC in a flash drive is seeking to file a lawsuit against Newport City Council (NCC) in the United Kingdom for refusing his requests to excavate the area he presumed he misplaced the hard drive.

2023-9-12 19:00
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Investor who lost 8k Bitcoins in dump sues local council

An investor lost over 8,000 BTC after his hard drive was scrapped. Now, he will sue the UK council because he was not allowed to dig it up. According to The Telegraph, former engineer James Howells lost 8,000 Bitcoins (BTC)…

2023-9-11 14:42	United Kingdom
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Binance Global Advisory Board To Drive the Future of Web3

Binance has dedicated itself since its inception to advancing global financial freedom. Crypto assets have made this possible, and furthering their acceptance will significantly impact social and financial inclusion by working hard to achieve goals by creating great products, hiring…

2022-9-22 16:25	Web 3.0
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Craig Wright Tells Court He ‘Stomped on the Hard Drive’ Containing Satoshi Wallet Keys

“Otherwise people will end up forcing me into doing something I don’t want to do,” the self-styled Bitcoin creator told a Norwegian court.

2022-9-15 04:43	policy
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Multibillion-Dollar Hedge Fund Backs Hunt For Hard Drive Containing Nearly $400 Million Worth Of Bitcoin

James Howells, a British IT professional shocked many when he reported that he threw away a computer hard drive in which $382 million worth of Bitcoins had been stored. He accidentally threw it away in 2013 when cleaning his workplace.

2021-7-10 17:42	xbtusd
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Man Who Accidentally Threw Away 7,500 Bitcoins on Hard Drive Has New Plan to Retrieve His BTC

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 to Retrieve 7,500 Lost […]

2021-7-10 16:30
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Man Who Dumped Hard Drive Containing $381M BTC Gets Hedge Fund Backing To Recover Hard Drive

The British IT professional has revealed that his attempt to recover his lost fortune has been sponsored by a multi-billion dollar hedge fund that is willing to cover any and all costs associated with the hunt, including all necessary equipment.

2021-7-9 21:05
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Man Who Lost $378 Million Bitcoin Fortune in Landfill Plans 12-Month Search

James Howells wants to embark on a year-long landfill search to discover his missing hard drive that contains roughly $378 million worth of Bitcoin

2021-7-9 22:36
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How to farm Chia: A guide to XCH token farming using a hard drive

A guide to Chia Network: farming, building a rig, the hard drive deficit and the future of the project.

2021-7-4 15:34	AI
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Chia Network’s ‘Green Crypto’ Nets $60M in Funding, Hard Drive Prices Surge

With all recent attention being focused on energy-efficient crypto projects, Chia has taken the spotlight by netting major investments from venture capital giants. The post Chia Network’s ‘Green Crypto’ Nets $60M in Funding, Hard Drive Prices Surge appeared first on BeInCrypto.

2021-5-25 12:53
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New Cryptocurrency Kills Your Hard Drive to Mine New Coins

The race is on to become the next mainstream cryptocurrency that doesn’t contribute millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions due to unsustainable mining practices. Now, a new cryptocurrency called Chia, founded by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, is promising to make mining cryptocurrencies at home a whole lot easier (again).

2021-6-8 21:14	Cryptocurrencies
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Revuto To launch First Token Sale On Cardano, This Is How It Will Give Users More Power

Cardano is about to enter a new era. Q2, 2021 will mark the deployment of its smart contract capabilities with Hard Fork Combinator event “Alonzo” and its integration with Plutus, the platform that will drive it.

2021-5-13 15:59	Press releases
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Bittorrent Creator Bram Cohen’s Crypto Project Chia Sparks Hard Drive and SSD Shortages

On May 3, tokens stemming from the Chia network, a smart transaction blockchain created by the Bittorrent creator Bram Cohen, will start trading and transactions will be fully enabled. Rather than leveraging the proof-of-work consensus algorithm, Chia will utilize a model called proof-of-space which relies on storage.

2021-4-25 15:00	Tron
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Lost And Found: Man Recovers Bitcoin From Hard Drive Burned In A Fire

Bitcoin is once again in the news, the subject of internet chatter, and watercoolor talk. It is for the first time also the darling of Wall Street, beating out every other financial asset under the sun.

2021-1-22 18:30	xbtusd
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Hack A Cryptocurrency Wallet Filled With Bitcoin to Get Hired By A Cybersecurity Firm

Red Balloon Cyber Security Company is using a unique way to get their next recruits. The company asks prospective candidates to crack an encrypted hard drive before they are offered the opportunity to work with the security firm.

2021-1-20 00:18	cybersecurity
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Cybersecurity firm uses encrypted hard drive with Bitcoin to test applicants

Successful applicants can use the funds to buy a ticket to the company's headquarters.

2021-1-19 01:10	cybersecurity
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Bitcoin Worth $140 Billion Lost Says UK Council

Keys lost, coins lost The UK’s National Cyber Security Council broached the topic of unreachable BTC in its weekly threat report. The report attributes the loss to password or key deletion caused by mistaken hard drive disposal or reformatting.

2021-1-17 22:01	United Kingdom (UK)
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Man Offers $72 Million To Search For Hard Drive With 7,500 BTC

James Howells, a 35-year old British Engineer, is reportedly on a hunt for his BTC hardware wallet that he had accidentally discarded in 2013 while doing some house clean-up. According to a South Wales Argus report, Howells had appealed to the councils of the city where he resides, Newport, to excavate a landfill site where […]

2021-1-16 23:29	xbtusd
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Man Accidentally Threw Away Hard Drive With 7,500 Bitcoins, Offers City $72 Million to Search Landfill

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.

2021-1-16 19:35
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IT Engineer Offers Nearly $72 Million to Excavate Lost Bitcoin Fortune

James Howells, an IT Engineer, is offering a percentage of his Bitcoin stash to the Newport City council to dig up a hard drive containing over 7,000 bitcoins that he accidentally discarded. Howells Seeks to Recover 7,500 BTC According to the South Wales Argus, James Howells was renewing his appeal to the city council toRead More

2021-1-15 02:00	United Kingdom
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Welsh Man Offers Local Council $72 Million to Dig Up Bitcoin Hard Drive

The Missing Bitcoin Millions James Howells is searching for buried treasure, bitcoin style. The Welshman is negotiating with his local council in an attempt to recover an old hard drive that was disposed of in 2013.

2021-1-15 20:27
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How to Maximize The Benefits of the Hard Protocol, a Cross-Chain Money Market on the Kava Blockchain

DeFi is the new cool in crypto circles. It has, undoubtedly, opened up new opportunities and is part of the bigger drive by the crypto community to democratize finance. Lending, trading, borrowing, and more are now available to people.

2020-12-22 17:42
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Amuary Sechet: ‘Upgrade or Bitcoin Cash Is Destined for Irrelevance’

A Bitcoin Cash upgrade that would mandate all newly minted blocks donate 8% to development is threatening to drive a hard fork in November.

2020-8-20 06:37	Technology
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Filecoin Is Mailing Out Hard Drives of Climate Data to Kick-Start Its File-Storage Network

Get a giant hard drive from the Filecoin team stuffed with data on climate, the world's literature or the human genome and get ready to earn some crypto.

2020-5-8 23:25
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is Going to Viking-Smash Your Hard Drive

Assassin's Creed Valhalla sounds like one massive game as Ubisoft reveals that no less than 15 studios are collaborating on the game. The post Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is Going to Viking-Smash Your Hard Drive appeared first on CCN.com

2020-4-30 13:48	ubisoft
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Final Fantasy IX Commits Suicide – And No, It’s Not an April Fools’ Prank

Final Fantasy IX's latest update caused the game to delete itself from your hard drive. And no, it wasn't a belated April Fools' prank. The post Final Fantasy IX Commits Suicide – And No, It’s Not an April Fools’ Prank appeared first on CCN.com

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Hewlett Packard Enterprises Confirms Several SSDs can die After Just 40,000 Hours

In the world of technology, there are many different problems to watch out for. A new identified bug by Hewlett Packard Enterprise shows how SSDs may stop working after 40,000 hours. It is always worrisome when a computer’s hard drive dies.

2020-3-26 06:00
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Call of Duty Warzone is Too Big For Coronavirus Self-Isolators

Call of Duty Warzone is a great game, but with unstable networks and large file size, it's just not worth it during self-isolation. That hard drive space is better spent on single-player games which will still be usable if the networks have extended down-time.

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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey May Help Bitcoin Price Drive to $100,000

Coinspeaker Twitter’s Jack Dorsey May Help Bitcoin Price Drive to $100,000Jack Dorsey is working hard to deliver the new Bitcoin scaling solution that may help the Lightning Network developers.

2020-1-27 19:02	#twitter
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Binance CEO: It’ll Be Hard for Nations to Outrun China on Blockchain

The Chinese President’s endorsement of blockchain will inevitably drive major adoption of cryptocurrencies, says Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

2019-11-15 12:27	Blockchain News
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Binance CEO Says Bitcoin Will Hit $16,000 “Soonish”

Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, has moved boldly with another prediction. This time, seeing Bitcoin hit $16,000 soon. CZ Among Top Bitcoin Influencers Binance’s CEO has been one of the most influential voices in crypto, though not without critics and detractors.

2019-11-1 18:24	TRON (TRX)
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Siacoin Network Growing While SC Price Stagnates

There are more than 2000 cryptocurrencies currently “live” but only a handful of them provide some utility and can justify their existence. Sia coin is definitely one of those coins. SC is known for their decentralized cloud storage.

2019-11-1 22:27	Crypto Journal
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Lost Bitcoin Could Become Recoverable, Blockstream CEO Confirms

Blockstream CEO, Adam Back, says that the company is looking at implementing a method by which lost bitcoin will become recoverable. But before you stop trawling through the tip for that old hard drive you threw out, he wasn’t referring to those lost bitcoin.

2019-10-23 14:23	Lightning Network
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Nick Szabo: Ethereum (ETH) is Becoming a “Centralized Cult”

The Ethereum (ETH) leadership is showing signs of becoming a force to be reckoned with, commented bitcoin pioneer Nick Szabo. While Ethereum was inherently democratic, the need to perform a series of hard forks and upgrades has put the developer team in charge.

2019-10-15 20:00	vitalik buterin
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CHEAP: Forget about the cloud, get this 2TB Hitachi drive for $30

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2019-10-3 14:45	Plugged
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Trump’s Calls for Negative Interests Rates May Benefit Bitcoin, Says Analyst

The President of the United States has once again called on the Federal Reserve to significantly lower interest rates. For Dan Tapiero, of DTAP Capital, such a “debasement of the dollar” would benefit Bitcoin and other hard, store-of-value assets.

2019-9-12 01:00	trump
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Ransomware gang breach data backup software used by hundreds of US dental offices

Hundreds of dental offices across the US have been crippled by a ransomware attack targeting a remote data backup service offered by a third-party. PerCSoft and Digital Dental Record (DDR) — the two Wisconsin-based software companies — provide a solution called DDS Safe that delivers triple-layer protection by backing up sensitive medical records to the cloud, an offline workstation, and an in-office hard disk drive.

2019-8-30 15:28	United States
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Ransomware Syrk Finds Victims In Fortnite Players

Presenting itself as an app to help players cheat at the online battle royale game Fortnite, Syrk encrypts files on a user’s hard drive and demands a ransom paid in crypto. If the ransom is not paid, the malicious software begins deleting files one by one.

2019-8-28 18:50	Technology
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CHEAP: Lord! A WD 10TB external hard drive for $180 is a BLESSING — praise be!

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! You can never have too much digital stuff. Whether that’s music, movies, photos, documents, or whatever else tickles your virtual fantasies, it’s all good.

2019-8-24 15:01	Plugged
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Bitcoin & “Psycho Currencies” Will Boost Demand for Gold: Says, Veteran Investor

During his blanket endorsement to buy gold as central banks loosen their monetary policy, veteran investor Mark Mobius said that the rise of cryptocurrencies will only further drive the demand for hard assets like gold.

2019-8-21 16:16	Bitcoin (BTC) Price
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Latest Faketoshi says he conveniently ‘lost the hard drive’ containing billions in Bitcoin

Just yesterday we told you how there was a new Faketoshi in town, staking a questionable claim to the Bitcoin throne in a three-part blog series. Last night saw the release of parts two and three, where Faketoshi deep dives into his alleged creation of Bitcoin, explains why he is unable to move Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins, and reveals his real identity.

2019-8-20 14:38	hard fork
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CHEAP: Save! Fast! With! $100 off! This Samsung! Portable 2TB SSD!

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! At some point in our lives, most of us have used large computer files. Whether it’s editing videos, managing photo libraries, or even just playing games, having to do something on a creaking, slow hard drive is an absolute pain.

2019-7-7 15:00	Plugged
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deVere Chief Executive: Boris at No10 Bodes Well for Bitcoin

Chief Executive of deVere financial group, Nigel Green, predicts that fears of a no-deal Brexit will drive UK investors towards Bitcoin, if Boris Johnson becomes the next British PM. Hard Brexit Boris Contemporary UK politics is going through the motions of deciding yet another Prime Minister, in the wake of Theresa May stepping down from office at the start of the month.

2019-6-22 18:00	European Union
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CHEAP: $60 for this 2TB Western Digital portable HD? TIME TO TEAR OFF OUR CLOTHES IN JOY

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! I love a good hard drive. It’s such a wonderful feeling to have a tiny little box filled with an array of digital goodies.

2019-6-22 15:00	Plugged
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How 3D spintronics will take hard drive performance to the next level

Spintronics might not be the sort of word that comes up in everyday discussions, but it has been revolutionising computer technology for years. It’s the branch of physics that involves manipulating the spin of a flow of electrons, which first reached consumers in the late 1990s in the form of magnetic computer hard drives with several hundreds of times the storage capacity of their predecessors.

2019-6-18 15:37	Tech
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Hitting the Digital Content with BeatzCoin

Nowadays, earning cash through the internet is more than just a trend, it is killing the traditional entertainment industry by hitting it with the hammer justice. Problem is, the new face of normalcy is the conglomerates like Youtube, who now, more than ever, capitalize on the hard work of the content creator.

2019-6-10 11:21	Press releases
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Turkey’s Collapsing Currency Will Drive Investors to Bitcoin, Says Max Keiser

By CCN: Bitcoin bull Max Keiser has hinted that as Turkey’s economy worsens, Turks could turn to Bitcoin as a hedge. In a tweet, Keiser said that Bitcoin ‘will become a factor for Turks as hard money becomes hard to come by’.

2019-5-22 15:01	Turkey
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CHEAP: Save EVERYTHING with this WD 4TB external drive, now 41% off

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Oh yeah we’ve got something you’re going to like today: a 4TB external hard drive from Western Digital for only $94! Normally, the 4TB My Passport (which is portable btw) retails for $160, but this deal takes 41 percent off and pushes it under a hundred bucks.

2019-5-19 15:00	Plugged
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Quantum breakthrough could lead to ‘super-powered’ hard disk drives

While the world’s focused on the latest Avenger’s flick, an international team of scientists have potentially unlocked the super powers of another familiar Marvel character: Magneto. Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory, Oakland University in Michigan, and Fudan University in China have discovered a quantum-level exploit that has the potential to give engineers greater control over the magnetic properties of certain metals.

2019-4-27 23:49	Tech
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