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The quest to liberate $300k of Bitcoin from an old ZIP file
- gnabgib 6y agoRepost from 6hrs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091066 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091066), 22 hrs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24086395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24086395), 2 days (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072465). It's not even a very interesting story
- waynecochran 6y agoI enjoyed it.
- surround 6y agoIt’s an interesting story, but the firsthand account is better
- mohn 6y agoAnd Mike Stay's firsthand account of this recovery, 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774057
- guiambros 6y agoYups, that's the original source. Not sure why all of a sudden everybody decided to pick it up. Here's the firsthand account by the author, last April: https://twitter.com/metaweta/status/1246166302688808960 https://twitter.com/metaweta/status/1246166302688808960
- rootsudo 6y agocause cryptos are hitting ATH. Bitcoin broke 12k, etc. Shoe shine boy etc etc etc.
- gnabgib 6y agoThat's a much more interesting version with some technical details, hopefully @metaweta has found some business since
- ed25519FUUU 6y ago> "In the end, the infrastructure costs to run the attack were $6,000 to $7,000 instead of the roughly $100,000 they had originally estimated, Foster says. The Guy paid about a quarter of the original price tag. "He got a smoking deal," Foster says.” Wow... Exactly why you leave hacking to the hackers and allow sales people to market the product!
- IshKebab 6y agoYeah that's pretty insane pricing. They're effectively making the guy $300k and it's pretty doubtful he could go to anyone else to get it done. On the other hand I would hope the deal was that he would pay up front and assume all of the risk of it not working, in which case maybe it is not such a bad deal for them.
- djmips 6y agoI doubt that otherwise they would have been paid $100K up front.