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StableSnapshot Window: 2026-08-26 09:30 UTC · ← Back to Crypto Overview
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Verbatim Community Citations & Social Evidence 1 source posts analyzed
16 years ago, “Stone Man” accidentally formatted his hard drive and lost access to 9,000 BTC. Those coins are still sitting there today, worth around $700M.
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AI visual note: A screenshot of a BitcoinTalk forum post from August 10, 2010, by user "Stone Man" titled "Lost large number of bitcoins," detailing the steps that led to losing 9,000 BTC, including overwriting his wallet.dat file with an older version after wiping his system disk. The post illustrates the original loss event referenced in the caption, where 9,000 BTC—now worth approximately $700M—remain inaccessible on the blockchain.