‘I hacked time to recover $3 million from a bitcoin software wallet’

Michael from Germany bought some bitcoins in 2013 and stored them in a software wallet with a password. He used a password generator called Roboform to create it and saved it in an encrypted text file. Shortly afterward, the password file became corrupted, and he lost it forever: “At that moment I thought, ok, shit, about €2,000 [$2,200]… well, you just get angry,” says Michael, who uses a fictitious name to protect his identity. But over the years, the price of bitcoin began to rise. By 2024, his wallet was worth about $3 million. “I have this fortune, I can see it, but I can’t use it because I don’t have the password,” he said.

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