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Looking for “Stone Man” — Bitcointalk user from August 2010

A Bitcointalk user known as 'Stone Man' lost 8,900 BTC in 2010 due to a change-address bug in Bitcoin 0.3.2. An analyst spent 18 months researching the technical conditions to recover the coins, requiring cooperation from the original user to narrow the search space. The coins remain unspent and belong to the original owner.

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Stone ManpersonBitcointalkorganizationBitcoin 0.3.2topicLinux 2.6.26 kerneltopicOpenSSL 0.9.8g-15topicCUDAtopicECDSAtopic167ZWTT8n6s4ya8cGjqNNQjDwDGY31vmHgtopic

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