How Bitcoin works: the blockchain explained
Lost bitcoin: why nobody can bring back a forgotten private key
In 2013, a man threw away an old hard drive. It held the key to thousands of bitcoin, and those bitcoin are still in the ledger today. Why can nobody move them?
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A month after the camera arrives, your phone falls into the sea. The wallet app is gone, and with it the private key it kept.
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Your bitcoin did not sink with it. On thousands of nodes, the ledger still says they belong to your address. Nothing about them changed.
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