German-born programmer Stefan Thomas told the Times he forgot the password to IronKey, an secure flash drive has access to 7,002 Bitcoin - $220 million worth. IronKey gives users 10 guesses for their passwords before seizing its contents.
"I would just lay in bed and think about it," Thomas told the New York Times Nathaniel Popper. "Then I would go to the computer with some new strategy, and it wouldn't work, and I would be desperate again."
quite surprised by this news because his Bitcoin trapped in his hardware wallet is very much. Don't underestimate your private key and password, if you haven't prepared the best place (easy to remember and reach) to store your private key and password then
do it right now..
https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/programmer-locked-out-220-million-in-bitcoin-forgotten-password-2021-1-1029961378that sounds really depressing, i couldn't find a JSON file of my wallet that i downloaded and stored in my little brother's pc, i used it because mine was broken at the time, my wallet had a token worth 1200$, and my brother deleted it thinking it was just a random file, that thing kept haunting me for months, imagine being in the shoes of that guy.