{"id":630574,"date":"2026-07-17T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=831678"},"modified":"2026-07-17T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:30:34","slug":"he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"He Still Has Two Password Guesses Left Before $840 Million Deletes Itself Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/he-still-has-two-password-guesses-left-before-840-million-deletes-itself-forever-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Passwords and a keyboard\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Programmer Stefan Thomas has just two password attempts left to unlock an IronKey USB drive holding the private keys to 7,002 Bitcoin he received in 2011 for making a \u201cWhat is Bitcoin?\u201d video. The device is designed to permanently lock and delete its contents after 10 wrong tries, and Thomas has already used eight, with [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programmer Stefan Thomas has just two password attempts left to unlock an IronKey USB drive holding the private keys to 7,002 Bitcoin he received in 2011 for making a \u201cWhat is Bitcoin?\u201d video. The device is designed to permanently lock and delete its contents after 10 wrong tries, and Thomas has already used eight, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":630575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-630574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}