Billions in lost Bitcoin: the buried treasure that people can never get back : Planet Money : NPR
4 years ago

Billions in lost Bitcoin: the buried treasure that people can never get back : Planet Money : NPR

NPR  

Bitcoin Losers Enlarge this image Kenny Malone and Alice Wilder Kenny Malone and Alice Wilder Note: This episode originally ran in 2018. In the decentralized anti-governmental world of bitcoin, you can't file a claim for damaged or lost currency. Sponsor Message We join Syl on a digital treasure hunt, as he ventures into his attic looking for what could be the key to his bitcoin wallet, and tens of thousands of dollars. Then Kimberly Grauer and Jonathan Levin of Chainalysis help us figure out how much bitcoin has been lost and why it's so difficult to track down, and try to figure out if there's any way to find Syl's vanished riches.

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