Early Bitcoin miner in South Africa lost the key to his wallet with 20 bitcoin

[Jan]

I could have been a millionaire, but I lost 20 Bitcoin

A 24-year-old South African electronic engineer recounts the story of how he lost 20 bitcoin that he mined in 2010.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Yikes
This guy wakes up everyday kicking himself, this has to suck so much

 

[Sapphiron]

r/datahoarder

keep everything

 

[Athos]

I mean it really sucks for this guy but what can you do, if it is gone it is gone. You need to make peace with it (which he probably has) and move on.

 

[Little Mac]

Having to work to earn a living is not the worst thing in the world LOL.
It only sucks if you live in the 'What could have been'.

 

[livw88]

*Not his real name.

Why are protecting his identity? He has nothing to steal

 

[backstreetboy]

Didn't use skydrive or dropbox back then?

 

[Swa]

Well he only lost 58c or whatever the electricity cost at that time.

Come on @Jan, just admit is was you!

 

[Little Mac]

Why are protecting his identity? He has nothing to steal

Saving his dignity hehe.

 

[Dan C]

NEVER EVER EVER EVER delete anything from you desktop

 

[backstreetboy]

NEVER EVER EVER EVER delete anything from you desktop

You live in a data warehouse?

 

[Nerfherder]

I could have been a millionaire, but I lost 20 Bitcoin

A 24-year-old South African electronic engineer recounts the story of how he lost 20 bitcoin that he mined in 2010.

heard plenty of stories like this... heard someone else who chucked out an old drive with 7 bitcoin.

There is an interesting angle now. What if modern day treasure hunters are the people who find old drives and scan them for bitcoin ?

 

[L-Dog]

Man Who Accidentally Threw Away 7,500 Bitcoins on Hard Drive Has New Plan to Retrieve His BTC – Featured Bitcoin News

The British man who threw away a computer with 7,500 bitcoins on its hard drive has a new plan recover the BTC from the city landfill.

news.bitcoin.com

There is always someone who has made a bigger mistake although this is near the top

 

[Little Mac]

heard plenty of stories like this... heard someone else who chucked out an old drive with 7 bitcoin.

There is an interesting angle now. What if modern day treasure hunters are the people who find old drives and scan them for bitcoin ?

Man who lost Bitcoin worth £275m after chucking hard drive plans landfill hunt

IT worker James Howells, 35, is confident that he's scoped out a 200-metre stretch of land where the precious chip is hidden using aerial photographs - but council chiefs won't entertain the idea

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[LCBXX]

I lost a wallet with 3000 bitcoin in it. No article about me?

 

[eg2505]

aren't there people who can try recover his Keychain?
is it truly lost and irrecoverable?

Id equate his pain, to using his winning lotto ticket at the bottom of a budgie cage, and they wont accept it as its "defaced"

 

[acidrain]

Yikes
This guy wakes up everyday kicking himself, this has to suck so much

Sure it sucks but I can almost guarantee you that had he still had access, he would have sold around $100.

The allure of money would have been too great.

 

[Pegasus]

Wonder if SARS will still tax him.

 

[MightyQuin]

NEVER EVER EVER EVER delete anything from you desktop

NEVER EVER EVER EVER save anything on your desktop...

Use your files/folders and then of course those should be in the cloud.

 

[The_Librarian]

NEVER EVER EVER EVER save anything on your desktop...

Use your files/folders and then of course those should be in the cloud.

And use more than one cloud provider to save things to.