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I think it was most likely Hal Finney. He's cryogenically frozen himself, so most likely dead, hence it is unlikely his coins will ever be recovered. Unless per
by sva_ 5y ago
I think it was most likely Hal Finney. He's cryogenically frozen himself, so most likely dead, hence it is unlikely his coins will ever be recovered. Unless perhaps he's stored the key somewhere in the physical world (or a mnemonic), so that he could retrieve in the case of successfully being "revived". If that's the case, someone might find it, perhaps.
- Geee 5y agoI've always thought that he had a brain wallet, and his bitcoin are the bounty for reviving him.
- hinkley 5y agoBack in the Correct Horse Battery Staple days and earlier, when password managers were still nonexistent or frowned upon, I used to recommend that if you had an executive that has trouble remembering passwords, they should use a phrase from a book in their office (make sure they have more than a couple of books in their office). For all we know somewhere there's a wallet whose password is the first sentence from Moby Dick, or one of Hamlet's speeches.
- _1tan 5y agoThis has been proven already: https://github.com/ryancdotorg/brainflayer https://github.com/ryancdotorg/brainflayer