Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin

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Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin
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This was when BTC was like 5 cents and no one had learned this lesson yet.

When I first acquired it, I wasn't aware of a place to even check it's value. There was this old game called Dragon Tales, where you could gamble whole BTC on things like kicking a coconut tree to see if 0-4 BTC worth of coconuts would fall...