The programmer received 7,002 bitcoins ten years ago as compensation for making an explanatory video about the cryptocurrency.
The programmer Stefan Thomas, a resident of San Francisco (EE.UU.), closed the contrast with the permitiría and 7,002 bitcoins, the value of the current value and alrededor of 240 millones de dólares. The contrast, which is written in a paper and perdió hace años, it will allow you to unblock a small hard disk, known as IronKey, which holds the private keyboards of its digital ticket.
The long-term disco protection system that users use until they are collected and encrypted forever. Hasta ahora Stefan ha usado, sin éxito, ocho intentos, y only four doses.
In 2011, when Stefan vivía in Switzerland, one of the fanatical firsts of this cryptocurrency, recently launched by those entones, the day 7,002 bitcoins as compensation by making an animated video titled ‘What is Bitcoin?‘, which explains how this virtual division works.
At the moment, Stefan has locked up the IronKey in a secure place, in case the future cryptographers encounter new forms of describing complex counterparts. In addition, consider that mantenerlo lejos the help to treat not think about it much that loss.
“I read a point about it that bothers me: ‘What to do in the past“solo por tu propia salud mental ‘”, says the programmer, quoted by The New York Times.
Unlike traditional banking accounts and other online billing systems, the bitcoin operating system has no ability to proportion or transfer funds. The initial idea of this division was to allow any person in the world to open a digital banking account without having to register with a financial institution or pass on any type of identity verification.
At the same time, the data analysis firm Chainalysis, quoted by the state diary, estimates that around 20 per cent of existing bitcoins will appear in lost or lost tickets.