How I Stole a User's Siacoin

Re:How I Stole a User's Siacoin by illumin8 on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:35PM (#14572820)

My brother accidentally deleted his wallet.dat from Dropbox a few years ago - he had given it a random filename and encrypted it with GPG so it was unrecognizable to hackers (and apparently him as well).

It had 1,000 BTC in it! He had received them from a generous Bitcoin contributor in the early days who said "here you go, hold on to it, it will be worth something someday."

I still give him a hard time about his $3 million USD mistake...

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Re:How I Stole a User's Siacoin by sweettea on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:50PM (#14572895)

Did he try Dropbox support to see if they have a backup?

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Re:How I Stole a User's Siacoin by illumin8 on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:50PM (#14573160)

Oh yeah, completely exhausted that route - it was over a year before he realized it and way past their retention period...

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Re:How I Stole a User's Siacoin by zulln on Saturday June 17, 2017 @09:15AM (#14575758)

"Hi Dropbox support! You get $1m USD if you figure this out."

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Re:How I Stole a User's Siacoin by zuck9 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @11:43AM (#14576339)

Generous bitcoin contributor may be thinking that he made a wrong choice of giving away.

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Re:How I Stole a User's Siacoin by illumin8 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:15PM (#14598686)

He probably has several times that amount...

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