Allison Sider

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137 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2017 last heard Apr 2024

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And, you know, eventually he just sort of moved on to other business ventures, you know, didn't give it a whole lot more thought.

But now those 15 Bitcoin, I mean, their value has climbed towards $300,000 and...

you know, it was worth it for him to try and do something.

So he's built a really large supercomputer.

It's like five feet tall by two feet wide.

And it sits in a huge, it's almost like a fish tank full of this mineral water.

So it disperses the heat that the supercomputer gives off.

And it's just trying millions and millions of potential passwords that he could use to get in.

And I mean, it could take hundreds of years, even with a computer that powerful.

Yeah, that way it can run 24-7, you know, just constantly churning through various passcodes.

I mean, he told me that the password he used was probably like upwards of 25 characters because he wanted to make it secure.

So it's really long and it's going to be really hard to crack it.

Yeah, what we've learned is that it can be really hard to keep track of your Bitcoin.

You really have to know what you're getting into, you know, once you buy it.

We spoke to a lot of people who bought it years ago, you know, and it was very new.

And, you know, maybe they bought it on a lark as an experiment or someone paid them in Bitcoin or as a gift.

And, you know, they sort of lost track of it over the years.

You got a new computer.

You got a new phone.

You wrote your password down on a piece of paper and then cleaned your room and tossed it out.

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