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excellent story. can you share the number of bitcoins that were retrieved and how the customer lost the password in the first place?

> Back in January of 2016, he had bought around $10K or $15K of Bitcoin and put the keys in an encrypted zip file.

Based on the price of Bitcoin back then, it seems like this was about 30-40 Bitcoin?

About 40 BTC would be in the neighborhood of $300k these days, as well.

Was the computer stolen or did he actually forget the password?

From TFA:

> Luckily, he still had the original laptop and knew exactly when the encryption took place.