Quote from: LogitechMouse on Today at 02:58:08 AM

Quote from: Troytech on February 16, 2024, 03:52:24 PM

I came across the post on Reddit about a guy that took this hard drive that he stored his bitcoin to a data recovery specialist to fix it, who told him that his 276 bitcoin has been stolen, wait a minute how, his hard drive was bad and gave it to you to fix it and then you told him it was stolen.
It's a shame how people would still act so unwise with their holdings, I know its not his fault that his hard drive got bad but at least he should have taken some measures to secure his holdings, and now there is no proff that the so called data recovery specialist was the one who stole it or not.

Lesson learnt: always be smart about your holdings, cyrpto currency by nature is so easy to steal if someone has access to the right things, it's just like giving a brief case containing your documents to your properties or maybe a million dollar to someone to open it for you and when he does what happens, do you expect him to be honest about it, although for now we are unsure it was stolen by the specialist but all arrows lead to him.
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TBH, I can't even think if this story is true or not. I mean it's Reddit. I can also share there that I'm an early adopter of Bitcoin, invested heavily in it, bought 100 BTC in the early 2010s, lost it, made a made-up story for it, and let people sympathize for me but in reality, it wasn't true at all.

The owner bought 276 Bitcoins yes. Didn't he think of ways how to at least keep it as secure as possible? It's only 2 things. It's either the owner is a complete idiot that he didn't secure his 276 Bitcoins, or this is just a made-up bullsh*t story. If this is true though, I feel jealous of that data recovery specialist because he got that amount of Bitcoins for "FREE". I mean what are the odds that something like that might happen to you?

I don't believe in that story. Buying that much amount of Bitcoins, and you don't even know how to secure it?

I thought so too at first, but then i came across a Comment that says the bitcoin was really in the address he shared.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1as7agq/bitcoin_core/kqoo29n?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1as7agq/bitcoin_core/kqolk5i?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1as7agq/bitcoin_core/kqog26u?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1as7agq/bitcoin_core/kqof8za?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

All these comments make the story seem true, but I could still be a gang up of liers who knows what they are up to