5 thoughts on “The programmer mistakenly thrown away 7,500 Bitcoin as garbage. How much did he lose?”
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British IT engineer James Herwells recently discovered that he had thrown away the hard disk with 7,500 Bitcoin private keys as a garbage. James has been mining 7,500 bitcoin on personal computers since 2009. Without the private key, although his Bitcoin did not disappear, he could not use Bitcoin for transaction. Based on the current price of $ 32,000, it is equivalent to losing more than 260 million US dollars, nearly 1.7 billion yuan. He expressed his regret. The loss of Bitcoin key is common. Some blockchain analysis companies released reports in 2020. Within five years, at least 3.7 million bitcoin has not been touched. In other words, the owner has not logged in to the account, and these accounts are basically idle or forgot the key by the owner. Not only Bitcoin, but other digital currencies are also facing these hidden safety hazards. In the future, these problems may be solved. For example, the key can be recovered like a bank card loss, but the difficulty is that the digital currency itself is anonymous, which requires a balance between the key security and anonymity. Crypto data company GlassNode estimates that about 3 million Bitcoin will be lost forever. Fortunately, about $ 7 billion in Bitcoin has been reopened since October 2020. 2021, Bitcoin hit a new high! As of 12:38 on January 3, the price of Bitcoin was $ 32,700. Data show that Bitcoin increased by 72.99%in the past month and 11.09%in 24 hours. Recently, Bitcoin prices have continuously reached a new high. On January 6, the Bitcoin set exceeded 35,000 US dollars, which was equivalent to buying a Bitcoin nearly 230,000 yuan. Since the beginning of this year, Bitcoin has increased by more than 23%. If the time is stretched, it is bought at the price of more than $ 7,000 in early 2020, and now the income has exceeded 500%! After pulling the time longer, after Bitcoin was born in 2009, its first price was about $ 0.0025 in 2010, and the price increase since the birth of Bitcoin has exceeded 14 million times!
British IT engineer James Herwells recently discovered that he had thrown away the hard disk with 7,500 Bitcoin private keys as a garbage. James has been mining 7,500 bitcoin on personal computers since 2009. Without the private key, although his Bitcoin did not disappear, he could not use Bitcoin for transaction. Based on the current price of $ 32,000, it is equivalent to losing more than 260 million US dollars, nearly 1.7 billion yuan. He expressed his regret.
The loss of Bitcoin key is common. Some blockchain analysis companies released reports in 2020. Within five years, at least 3.7 million bitcoin has not been touched. In other words, the owner has not logged in to the account, and these accounts are basically idle or forgot the key by the owner. Not only Bitcoin, but other digital currencies are also facing these hidden safety hazards. In the future, these problems may be solved. For example, the key can be recovered like a bank card loss, but the difficulty is that the digital currency itself is anonymous, which requires a balance between the key security and anonymity. Crypto data company GlassNode estimates that about 3 million Bitcoin will be lost forever. Fortunately, about $ 7 billion in Bitcoin has been reopened since October 2020.
2021, Bitcoin hit a new high! As of 12:38 on January 3, the price of Bitcoin was $ 32,700. Data show that Bitcoin increased by 72.99%in the past month and 11.09%in 24 hours. Recently, Bitcoin prices have continuously reached a new high. On January 6, the Bitcoin set exceeded 35,000 US dollars, which was equivalent to buying a Bitcoin nearly 230,000 yuan. Since the beginning of this year, Bitcoin has increased by more than 23%. If the time is stretched, it is bought at the price of more than $ 7,000 in early 2020, and now the income has exceeded 500%! After pulling the time longer, after Bitcoin was born in 2009, its first price was about $ 0.0025 in 2010, and the price increase since the birth of Bitcoin has exceeded 14 million times!
According to the current value of Bitcoin, it is 230,000. He lost about 1.7 billion. This is a huge loss.
It lost about 75 million, and the price of Bitcoin was relatively large, and when the price was high, it would reach 100,000.
It lost about 300 million yuan, because the value of Bitcoin is now very high, and a Bitcoin can sell 40,000 yuan.
According to the current exchange rate of about 1 to 220,000 Bitcoin and RMB, 7,500 Bitcoin has been calculated to lose more than one billion yuan