{"id":86635,"date":"2026-07-17T09:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86635"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:06:30","slug":"he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86635","title":{"rendered":"He Still Has Two Password Guesses Left Before $840 Million Deletes Itself Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Passwords and a keyboard\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever-190x107.png 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever-380x214.png 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever-760x428.png 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">Programmer Stefan Thomas has just two password attempts left to unlock an IronKey USB drive holding the private keys to 7,002 Bitcoin he received in 2011 for making a \u201cWhat is Bitcoin?\u201d video. The device is designed to permanently lock and delete its contents after 10 wrong tries, and Thomas has already used eight, with [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programmer Stefan Thomas has just two password attempts left to unlock an IronKey USB drive holding the private keys to 7,002 Bitcoin he received in 2011 for making a \u201cWhat is Bitcoin?\u201d video. The device is designed to permanently lock and delete its contents after 10 wrong tries, and Thomas has already used eight, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}