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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by tim333 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @05:48PM (#19323761)
Kraken had like a two hour podcast coming to much the same conclusion as the most probable explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB0OQae4fWo

It seems the problems may have started with a software screw up, leaving the "0x" off the ether address. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6ettq5/statement_...

which lost them I think 67,317 ETH permanently. Ah the wonders of cryptocurrency. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6er78h/warning_do...

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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by Scoundreller on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:20PM (#19333664)
I’m a bit sympathetic to their loss.

They were supposed to use 0x notation for a particular hex value, but the software always worked without it.

Then some tiny x.x.1 patch upgrade changed the functionality, now requiring the 0x, without documenting the change.

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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by tim333 on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:33AM (#19336230)
It's scary that with crypto such things can make it so hard to get your money back. I know there was talk of fixing it with a fork to the Ethereum chain one day. Not sure what happened there.
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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by Scoundreller on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:05AM (#19338071)
They did that once. I guess this exchange didn’t have enough pull to change the whole “code is law” principle.
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