Lord Vinheteiro hospitalized after losing wallet with bitcoins
While many thought that the situation of Lord Vinheteiro losing his bitcoin wallet was a “bait”, or a joke, the situation turns out to be even more serious.
During his participation in TubaCast, the expert in recovering bitcoin wallet passwords named Marcelo doubted the story. However, after listening to the audio with the pianist's weak voice on Luan Onofre's cell phone, Marcelo began to believe more in the loss.
“He’s in the hospital, hospitalized because of the loss of 2 million, right, four bitcoins, two million. Okay, let’s assume it’s true, okay, I’m going to assume that this story is true the way he wrote it on Twitter, which is where he published this story,” said Marcelo.
The wallet recovery specialist, still suspicious, said that if he really lost the wallet password, he would have lost the bitcoins forever. Furthermore, he made an assumption that the story is a partnership between Lord Vinheteiro and the owner of a second-hand bookstore near Praça da Sé, since the movement in the place could increase with people looking for the fortune hidden in a piece of paper there.
“If he has the Ledger Pin, there is a chance to recover the balance in bitcoins,” says expert
When explaining how Ledger works, Marcelo stated that if Lord Vinheteiro still has the access PIN of his hardware wallet, he can move his funds to a new address. However, the expert points out that if Vinheteiro tries to access the funds via PIN and enters the wrong password three times, the wallet will automatically format its contents, which would lead to the permanent loss of the funds.
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“Speaker, if you’re listening to this, this is how it works: as long as you have your pin, but you probably know this, they’ve probably explained it to you, as long as you have the pin you can connect it to your wallet. You don’t need the backup at this point, only if the device stops working,” declared the TubaCast participant.
If Lord Vinheteiro lost the pin and the wallet backup with the bitcoins, then there is nothing left to do, as the protection algorithm for a bitcoin public key is indecipherable.
Finally, the expert asked that anyone who wants to create a wallet should write down the words in the correct order and in an extremely safe place, since if this access is lost, the bitcoins are lost forever.
“If he knows the PIN, the news is good, if he doesn’t know it, he’ll cry for a long time. I would sit down and cry in the fetal position, imagine how much bitcoin will be worth in ten years.”
As of November 12, 2024, Lord Vinheteiro still publicly declared that he had not found his bitcoin wallet.