Can't remember password, May lose $ 220 million in Bitcoin

 A computer programmer has been left out of his digital wallet with almost 220 million dollars in Bitcoin and now he has only two options left to try the password, otherwise the money will be blocked forever.

Germany's Stefan Thomas, who now lives in San Francisco, told the New York Times that in 2011, a cryptocurrency fanatic donated 7,002 Bitcoin to him after he created a video explaining what exactly virtual currency is, back then, in its infancy. .

But Stefan lost the password, which is known as the digital key to the online wallet, and although he tried all his usual combinations, he could not enter it anymore. During this, the price of cryptocurrency has reached peaks. "I lie in bed and think, but every time I sit at the computer with a new strategy in mind and it does not work, then despair overwhelms me again," says Thomas.

And he is not the only one who has this happen to him. According to the New York times, there are others in his situation who do not remember passwords. The paper says 18.5 million Bitcoin, currently worth more than $ 140 billion, are currently found in lost or blocked virtual wallets.