After 3.5 trillion guesses, a forgotten $400k Bitcoin wallet finally opened
Eleven years ago, an X user who goes by cprkrn changed the password on a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC. He was stoned at the time. He forgot the new password by morning, and 5 BTC sat untouched while it grew to roughly $400,000.
He had tried btcrecover, an open-source brute-force tool, more than once over the years and given up. Last week…
