When cryptocurrency was still in its infancy, Bitcoin wasn’t worth much and there are countless stories of pizza purchases and crashed hard drives. With today’s Bitcoin value, there are deals and hardware failures worth hundreds of thousands of kroner, but it is usually too late to mourn old mistakes. In this week’s video tip, video creator and hardware hacker Joe “Kingping” Grand demonstrates that it is possible to breathe life into lost riches.
On a dedicated device for safe storage of Bitcoin, a so-called hardware wallet, there are two million dollars. The problem is that the owner has forgotten the password and getting past the security features is not an easy task. The journey to crack the device carries through soldering, memory reading and other exciting tricks – perfect Sunday entertainment!
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