‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin

Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by benmcnelly on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:24PM (#15589510)

I don't read wired, so not sure if my story is similar, but I have a damage hard drive with 30+ coins on it. It may be worth trying a little harder to restore it...

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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by ringaroundthetx on Monday October 30, 2017 @08:58PM (#15590362)

Its just ~$180,000 worth of bitcoin

no big deal, no need to waste your time on that

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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by Scoundreller on Monday October 30, 2017 @07:59PM (#15590084)

Just how is the hard drive damaged? Most of the time... the data is fine, but some board-level component died.

Lots of people out there are capable of swapping boards from the drive and swapping the chips storing any user-specific data , then enabling access to the data.

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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by Grangar on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:36AM (#15592149)

You could also just mail me the drive if you get tired of it...

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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by cannonedhamster on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @11:08AM (#15593760)

I used to have somewhere around 100 in a wallet from the early days when bitcoin fountains were still a thing. Platters are shattered and no backups, I thought I had it backed up, but it's gone. I can't tell you how many times I've searched for a way to recover that wallet.

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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by vernie on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:50PM (#15589696)

I don't read Wired either, so not sure if my story is similar, but I think I'm out of clean socks so I might need to do laundry tonight.

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