[metmom]

He should have had that hard drive stored somewhere very safe with what he had on it.

If he had cleared out the stuff himself, this wouldn’t have happened but he begged her to do it for him.

His dumb move.

[MosesKnows]

His dumb move

Perhaps her smart move.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

He should have had that hard drive stored somewhere very safe with what he had on it.

Bitcoin was almost worthless in 2009. 8000 bitcoins had a value of about $8 back then.

He didn't take precautionary measures because he didn't think they were necessary.

What about the guy in Florida who paid 10,000 bitcoin for a pizza in 2010? That was a $900,000,000 pizza.

[Drago]

Yeah why leave your BTC key on an old hard drive? Write down your “24 words”/”seed phrase” and put that in your safe deposit box/safe place

Or the metal/non-paper version:

https://coincodex.com/article/23147/best-metal-crypto-wallets-for-seed-phrase-storage/

https://unchained.com/blog/what-is-a-bitcoin-seed-phrase/