‎🚨Meet the man who has 7,002 Bitcoin (~$550M), but doesn’t have acces to it…

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‎Back in 2011, a Canadian programmer named Stefan Thomas was paid 7,002 BTC to make a simple “What is Bitcoin?” video.

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‎At the time that was worth around $5,000. He thought it was a nice bonus.

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‎He stored the private keys on an IronKey USB drive, a military grade encrypted hardware that gives you exactly 10 password attempts before it permanently wipes itself.

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‎Stefan wrote the password on a piece of paper… then lost the paper.

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‎He’s already used 8 wrong guesses over the years trying to remember it.

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‎He now has exactly 2 attempts left.

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‎If he gets them wrong, the 7,002 BTC (currently worth well over $550 million) is gone forever. The drive will self destruct the data.

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‎Stefan has gone public multiple times. He’s offered huge bounties.

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‎He’s begged the IronKey manufacturers for any backdoor. Nothing.

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‎The company has confirmed: there is no master key, no recovery option. That’s the whole point of the device.

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‎He keeps the IronKey in a safe.

‎Sometimes he stares at it for hours trying to trigger the memory.

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‎Every time Bitcoin pumps, the internet goes crazy remembering the story again.

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‎He still has the video he was paid to make. It’s still on YouTube.

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‎Two password attempts stand between him and half a BILLION dollars, Omor😞