nice story. I will never forget password or seed phrase for my physical platinum. Nor will it burn in fire and it’s tangible, has intrinsic value and today you’d never buy 300000 ounces of platinum while you can buy million of bitcoins if you want. Truth is – platinum is much rarer than Bitcoin in terms of real physical availability. So I am sticking with platinumÂ
DunningKuger on
the future of finance
ARoundForEveryone on
Generational wealth built upon typos and the lack of backups. Not your keys, not your money. I get it. But sometimes….your keys, still not your money.
Different_Counter113 on
Because no site ever makes you put the password in twice when setting it. Explains everything!
Kaedryl on
But how many bitcoin? Seems we’re missing the punchline here
JonBoy82 on
Delayed gratitude is one the foundations to wealth.
WhiteDogBE on
I usually call Bitcoin Support and they sort this out for me immediately. 😅😂
Thousands of attempts in 7 years sounds slow though. Assuming each character can only have about 10 variations (surrounding keys, caps, no caps) your wordlist can’t be that long?
misteryk on
It’s really dumb to make a system that lets you set up a password without confirming it for this very reason. doing the same type 2 times in a row is possible but very unlikely
babypho on
Plot twist, he accidentally bought BCH instead.
He’s down 76%.
Stormaier on
I’m glad that he finally has access to his 5 bucks
DBRiMatt on
Luckily for him, that typo stopped him from selling too early 😎
sirbrow on
0,005 xapo
setokaiba22 on
Diamond hands and so happy for the user but honestly this is a perfect example why Crypto struggles and will to be adopted much wider to an everyday thing for the average person.
Your bank account you can still gain access if you lose your password and get your funds…
sargsauce on
A couple years back, I helped a random dude online with his seed phrase when he made a mistake. I tried to help him abstractly for a while, but nothing worked. He had multikey authentication and he thought he did the set up wrong . Eventually, he just gave me his seed phrases and said good luck.
I noticed the same word appeared in both passphrases in the same position (for the two accounts controlling his crypto)…and figured the odds of that randomly happening were very low.
I tried substituting the word with other words from the list that sounded similar…and if that failed, just running through the entire list for both passphrases. Well, the first word I tried worked.
I could’ve taken everything he had. It was only about $2k at the time. But I’m a goody two shoes and let him know how he screwed up. I figured that’s my good deed for the year.
Bongressman on
Better at the beginning of the bear, than the end of it.
JungleReaver on
Congrats on the forced long term gains! You kept yourself from blowing your diamond sized load before it could amass its potential.
loud-spider on
This definitely needed a “and now I’ve bought an island!” wrap-up.
DontGiveMeGoldKappa on
hm, i thought only the words in the bip list worked for creating a wallet, how is a typo on a word allowed? unless the typo made another word in the list? and what about cap locks? shouldnt matter, no?
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nice story. I will never forget password or seed phrase for my physical platinum. Nor will it burn in fire and it’s tangible, has intrinsic value and today you’d never buy 300000 ounces of platinum while you can buy million of bitcoins if you want. Truth is – platinum is much rarer than Bitcoin in terms of real physical availability. So I am sticking with platinumÂ
the future of finance
Generational wealth built upon typos and the lack of backups. Not your keys, not your money. I get it. But sometimes….your keys, still not your money.
Because no site ever makes you put the password in twice when setting it. Explains everything!
But how many bitcoin? Seems we’re missing the punchline here
Delayed gratitude is one the foundations to wealth.
I usually call Bitcoin Support and they sort this out for me immediately. 😅😂
Thousands of attempts in 7 years sounds slow though. Assuming each character can only have about 10 variations (surrounding keys, caps, no caps) your wordlist can’t be that long?
It’s really dumb to make a system that lets you set up a password without confirming it for this very reason. doing the same type 2 times in a row is possible but very unlikely
Plot twist, he accidentally bought BCH instead.
He’s down 76%.
I’m glad that he finally has access to his 5 bucks
Luckily for him, that typo stopped him from selling too early 😎
0,005 xapo
Diamond hands and so happy for the user but honestly this is a perfect example why Crypto struggles and will to be adopted much wider to an everyday thing for the average person.
Your bank account you can still gain access if you lose your password and get your funds…
A couple years back, I helped a random dude online with his seed phrase when he made a mistake. I tried to help him abstractly for a while, but nothing worked. He had multikey authentication and he thought he did the set up wrong . Eventually, he just gave me his seed phrases and said good luck.
I noticed the same word appeared in both passphrases in the same position (for the two accounts controlling his crypto)…and figured the odds of that randomly happening were very low.
I tried substituting the word with other words from the list that sounded similar…and if that failed, just running through the entire list for both passphrases. Well, the first word I tried worked.
I could’ve taken everything he had. It was only about $2k at the time. But I’m a goody two shoes and let him know how he screwed up. I figured that’s my good deed for the year.
Better at the beginning of the bear, than the end of it.
Congrats on the forced long term gains! You kept yourself from blowing your diamond sized load before it could amass its potential.
This definitely needed a “and now I’ve bought an island!” wrap-up.
hm, i thought only the words in the bip list worked for creating a wallet, how is a typo on a word allowed? unless the typo made another word in the list? and what about cap locks? shouldnt matter, no?