Netizen Shotukan posted on Reddit that he found an old computer from his deceased brother’s old objects, which contained 533 bitcoins he bought in 2010. Unfortunately, in the picture displayed by Shotukan, the hard drive in the laptop is missing.

After the post came out, the domestic and foreign currency circle media pushed a message. The 533 bitcoins claimed in the Shotukan post are currently worth $5.2 million. It seems that netizen Shotukan will become rich overnight.

The information linked to bitcoin and wealth is the most eye-catching. Unfortunately, most of these second-hand messages are out of context and do not mention the key information of the disappearing hard drive.

Among the people who commented on the post, some people started to help Shotukan analyze where the missing hard drive might go: installed on another computer, it may become an external hard drive for the Xbox game console…they prayed that Shotukan’s late brother did not Erase the information on the hard disk.

Some people simply questioned that Shotukan was in the limelight: before 2010, there was no 510-550 BTC address on the Bitcoin network; can a person who spends money buying bitcoin stare at its price at any time? You know, bitcoin rose to $1,100 in 2013, when your brother was still alive.

Regardless of whether the story is true or not, the wave of attention that Shotukan has raised reminds the bitcoin holders again to keep your private key safe.
The computer “stored 533BTC” has no hard disk
“Reddit users retrieved the lost computer, which contains 533 bitcoins.” Recently, the news spread from abroad to the domestic currency circle. The 533 bitcoins are currently worth $5.2 million. The news also said that the net name Shotukan Of Reddit users bought these bitcoins in 2010, the computer he recovered from the old things of his late brother.

Shotukan uploaded a photo of the computer motherboard
Shotukan uploaded the appearance of the Dell laptop in the post, the unpacking panel part of the host, the hard disk area is empty. Without a hard drive, there is no wallet, and 533 BTC are just the numbers in the post.

Shotukan mentioned in his communication with other followers that his brother died in August last year, “I am ready to move, I started to look through his box to see if there is anything worth keeping.” That’s it , He found his old computer.

When the post was first posted on June 10th, a group of netizens were anxious for Shotukan. They helped him think about where the missing hard drive might be.

Some people say that his brother may have installed the hard disk in another computer and “continue to find it.”

Some people think that his brother may have changed the hard drive to a larger USB drive.

Others suggested Shotukan to see if his brother used the hard drive as an external device for the Xbox game console.

Shotukan also replied and will definitely look for it carefully.

Everyone suggested while praying, hoping that Shotukan’s younger brother had not erased the hard drive information. Although the hard drive has not fallen, someone has provided a way to recover the hard drive information.

Netizens question the authenticity of the story

There are also many questioners in the comments under Shotukan’s post.

The netizen said that before 2011, the one-time input of Bitcoin addresses did not contain addresses of the order of 510 to 550 BTC at all.

In response, Shotukan responded that these coins were indeed split into different addresses.

In addition to the number of doubts, there are also hostages: if you now know that there are exactly 533 BTC on your laptop, then you should also know that it exists on your computer six or seven years ago. From November to December 2013, BTC surged to US$1,100, but it was US$58,000. You will definitely remember it. Even if you didn’t think about it, by 2017, the value of BTC soared to more than US$19,000, 533 A BTC is close to 10 million US dollars. At that time, your brother was still alive. Isn’t it a small matter to help you find the hard disk?

If we sort out according to the historical price of bitcoin, in 2010, bitcoin has not yet formed a market transaction price. The programmer and early bitcoin miner Laszlo Hanyecz bought 2 pizzas with 10,000 bitcoins, which happened in 2010 May 22,

Therefore, if Shotukan actually bought 533 bitcoins in that year, the unit price may be only a few cents.

Shotukan explained that when the price began to rise, he remembered these bitcoins and started looking for a computer, but he forgot to give the computer to his brother, “This computer was considered rubbish in my opinion at that time because its screen was Destroyed.” That’s it, these 533 bitcoins have always been in Shotukan’s memory.

Some people still don’t believe it, and simply refer to Shotukan’s story as “the cliché of a treasure hunt geek.”

Judging from Shotukan’s historical postings on Reddit, he likes treasure hunting.

Years ago, Fein, a Vietnamese veteran and art dealer from Santa Fe, New Mexico, announced that he hid a treasure chest containing millions of dollars of gold and precious stones in the Rocky Mountains and left a poem called Whoever finds this treasure chest will put a golden laurel crown on his head.

Shotukan often posts on Reddit’s “Exploring Fein Gold” section, leaving an analysis of cracking Fein’s password, and looks very eager to find a treasure chest.

On June 6, Fein announced that his treasure chest had been discovered. This means that Shotukan lost the chance to take the gold laurels. If it is true that he lost his computer, then he will start to discover the bitcoin treasure he once buried.

Recover bitcoin, hard drive alone

So far, Shotukan’s “treasure hunt” has no text, he has not stated that he has not found the hard drive that disappeared. However, even if Shotukan retrieves the hard drive, it depends on whether the private key of the wallet storing the bitcoin is still there.

For Shotukan’s story, Li Wansheng, the founder of the distributed storage application public chain NBS, does not regret it. “I have many wallets that have lost their private keys here. If I can’t find the password, there is no drama.”

He explained that if there is a password book, you can try brute force cracking, that is, after getting the cipher text on the hard disk, generate a password book according to the password rules, and experiment one by one until you find the correct password. This is probably why netizens encourage Shotukan to find hard drives.

In 10 years, Bitcoin has risen from worthless to nearly $20,000. During these ten years, especially every time Bitcoin has skyrocketed, there have been many stories of Bitcoins such as Shotukan “gaining and losing”.

In December 2017, during the Bitcoin peak of $20,000, an IT engineer named Howell in the UK raised huge sums of money to dig into a landfill because he cleaned it in the summer of 2013. I accidentally threw an old hard drive, which contains bitcoins that he has been mining since February 2009, with a total of 7,500 coins. Based on the BTC price as of December 2017, Howell was equivalent to throwing away $126 million.

Not to mention far, Wu Gang, the well-known miner and founder of Binxin in the early Chinese currency circle, once exposed that Bitcoin was worthless in 2009. He used the company computer he used to dig bitcoin and later left without taking it. Going, more than 8,000 bitcoins have become memories.

These stories now sound like sadness and rivers. In theory, if the person holding Bitcoin does not keep the wallet private key, everything is just a dream.

According to statistics, there are more than 1.5 million Bitcoins that have been completely locked up, and the value is about 14.5 billion US dollars at the current price. Whether Bitcoin is a scam or a revolution, at least it tells us a truth: its own property is responsible for itself.

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