It was a costly case of forgotten password. A team of security researchers successfully cracked a password to recover a man’s $3 million [just over £2 million] bitcoin fortune. Electrical engineer and YouTuber Joe Grand was hired to hack into an encrypted file holding 43.6 BTC, which had been held there since 2013. The password […]

1 year ago

They might have the answer to his prayers A cybersecurity firm thinks it has the solution for a man who has just two more password attempts to try and recover more than $200m worth of Bitcoin – or lose it forever. Back in 2011, Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, had 7,002 […]

2 years ago

‘I would just lay in bed and think about it’ A man had just two attempts to try and remember his password in order to access $240m worth of Bitcoin. Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, had 7,002 bitcoins that were given to him in 2011. The cryptocurrency had been given to […]

2 years ago

Brought to you by OKX Ready to kickstart your crypto journey? This is the perfect starting point for beginners… When you’re new to the world of cryptocurrency and trading, it can be difficult to know where to start. Wrapping your head around the many digital currencies out there is not an easy task, and you’re […]

3 years ago

He wants to turn Newport into a crypto-hub After years of rejected appeals, a man from Newport has dreamt up a plan to recover a lost hard drive containing a bitcoin fortune totalling £150m. Almost a decade ago, James Howells accidentally binned a memory stick containing cryptocurrency worth millions. Despite petitioning his local council to […]

3 years ago

The restaurant had claimed to be the first to accept Ethereum and ApeCoin A crypto-themed restaurant has reportedly had to stop accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment following a devastating period for the crypto market. Bored & Hungry opened in Long Beach, California, earlier this year and proudly boasted that it would be the […]

4 years ago