Many people forget the passwords for their various electronic accounts, but what happened with a German programmer constitutes a tragedy that may haunt him for the rest of his life, after he forgot the password for an “electronic wallet” containing encrypted Bitcoin coins, valued at 240 million dollars.
The story goes back about 10 years, when Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in the United States, got 7,000 bitcoins for a video clip he designed for the cryptocurrency.
At that time, the value of one Bitcoin did not exceed a few dollars, so the man did not pay much attention to it.