It is reported that Jason Miller, a hypnotist from S. C. Greenville, helps users recall the correct password through hypnosis.
"One of the main reasons for losing Bitcoin is forgetting the password or losing the hard drive," said a blockchain practitioner. "Ten years ago, Bitcoin was worthless, and no one really cared about their private keys. But now the situation is very different."
According to Miller, his services can be paid for with Bitcoin, with a basic fee of 1 Bitcoin, and if he successfully helps the therapist recover the password and the digital assets in the wallet, an additional fee of 5% of the total amount of digital assets in the wallet is charged. However, at the same time, Miller estimates that the probability of recovering Bitcoin through hypnosis is generally only around 50%.
Nevertheless, many people who have lost Bitcoin and found themselves at a dead end choose hypnosis services. According to Miller, one investor successfully remembered his Bitcoin wallet password with the help of hypnosis.
Mark once received recovery services from a hypnotist and got a string of numbers. Unfortunately, the hypnotist was not very effective, and that string of characters was not the correct PIN code.
Furthermore, it is reported that a hypnotist from Russia has helped nearly half of his 20 clients recover their Bitcoin wallet passwords.
Although there are many methods to recover Bitcoin, they all have some shortcomings to varying degrees. For example, the success rate of brute force cracking is only about 30%, and it is quite expensive, accounting for about 20% of the total recovered assets. The success rate of file recovery depends on the completeness of the hard drive submitted by the user. Some use 'exhaustive methods,' generating millions of potential passwords with professional software and trying them one by one in hopes of 'brute forcing' the user's wallet account.
Hypnosis, to some extent, has a hint of 'mysticism.' 'The wisest practice is to back up oneself and try not to lose coins,' said a blockchain engineer. 'In fact, there are already many ways to protect cryptocurrency.' 'But the key is that users themselves must take it seriously.'
Now that Bitcoin has reached $100,000, the hypnotist has achieved financial freedom by acquiring Bitcoin early.