{"id":34480,"date":"2021-01-11T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T08:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34480"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:47:58","slug":"user-regains-access-to-4-million-worth-of-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/user-regains-access-to-4-million-worth-of-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"User regains access to $4 million worth of Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Reddit user regained access to a wallet containing 127 BTC that had been lost for several years. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/ku0gzz\/i_found_the_private_keys_to_my_127_bitcoins_i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0441\u044f \u0432 \u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438<\/a> in the r\/Bitcoin subreddit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The post&#8217;s author, going by the handle BitcoinHolderThankU, earned the bitcoins in 2011-2012 by watching videos and completing tasks, but lost the private keys to the wallet. Access was regained only in December 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor the entire following week I was figuring out how to safely and reliably withdraw such a large amount of Bitcoin,\u201d wrote BitcoinHolderThankU.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He sold 127 BTC through an OTC platform at a price of $33,439 per coin. The commission was 0.15%, and net profit was $4.24 million. Part of the funds will be invested in shares of companies in the S&#038;P 500, and he will continue to &#8216;live an ordinary life&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, on January 8 Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-price-climbs-above-41000\">established an all-time high<\/a>, surpassing the $41,000 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Reddit user regained access to a wallet containing 127 BTC that had been lost for several years. According to a post in the r\/Bitcoin subreddit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1142],"class_list":["post-34480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34482,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480\/revisions\/34482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}