This man owns $321M in bitcoin -- but he can't access it because he lost his password

[Swede]

Stefan Thomas has 2 guesses left before he's locked out of his fortune forever

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.5875363/this-man-owns-321m-in-bitcoin-but-he-can-t-access-it-because-he-lost-his-password-1.5875366

[ellie]

1. That's why

you always leave yourself a note!

[Dawson Leery]

2. Or it was changed in order to scam him of his fortune.

I don't trust bitcoin. As of now, it appears to controlled by right wing anti-government types.

[lapfog_1]

3. a new Nigerian Prince scam

" I own a $320 M bitcoin fortune but unfortunately lost my password. If you send me $10,000 right now so I hire a hacker to retrieve my password, I promise to split the fortune with YOU!"

[Sogo]

4. Can't he appeal to whomever has it "locked?"

[Takket]

5. what about hackers?

i remember when Apple refused to help the FBI access an iphone, some group helped the FBI hack it. So you buy another one of these "ironkey" things, put in a crazy password, and tell a hacker they get 20 million if they break into it as proof of concept, then hack the "valuable" ironkey.......

[Denzil_DC]

8. I believe a hacker has offered to try to crack the password in return for a percentage.

The method he suggested was to buy a number of the same hard drives and experiment with methods to get past their password systems before having a crack at the key one.

[CanonRay]

6. Serves the moron right.

[Catcar]

7. Who gets the 321 million if he screws things up?

[Initech]

9. Channeling his inner President Skroob?

[dawg day]

10. And Bitcoin is supposed to be so "safe"-- safer than banks

But if you lose your safe deposit key, the bank won't just keep your money.

[Dawson Leery]

11. True. And at least precious metals have a commercial/industrial value.

[Me.]

12. Did He try HIs Birthday?

[NCjack]

13. A fool and his money were lucky to get together

in the first place. (Harry Anderson, played Judge Harry Stone on “Night Court”)