He spent years with millions of euros in bitcoins secured on a USB stick because he didn't know the password. I had 3 options to get out. This man even refused the help of a specialized company that had a solution because of all the options he was presented with. Ripple's former CTO Stefan Thomas a few years ago forgot the password to an IronKey encrypted hard drive that contained the private keys of the cryptographic addresses where 7,002 bitcoins were stored (now equivalent to more than 600 million euros since the cryptocurrency last rose in value, a year ago when the story went viral, it had a much lower value).We talked about this person several times while the value of cryptocurrency was increasing and he didn't know how to get his money back. A year ago, we learned of a new chapter in his story that may have a happy ending. More than a decade after his story was first published, Unciphered, a company that specializes in helping people like Thomas, has publicly announced that it has finally found a solution to his explosive security dilemma. .However, as we shall see, the solution that this company offered was not the only one, and the man found himself with three available options, although when this the information appeared at the end of 2023, it could only fail twice so that your USB is not blocked forever. In 2024, there is a resolution to the story of this person who was at a crossroads a year ago.Its reputation as a USB with highly secure encryption has widened its interest among cryptocurrency investors. In 2021, a representative from Kingston Technology, the company that makes IronKey, confirmed to TechRadar that even they were unable to help Thomas recover his private keys.
