A 22-year-old student in Norway spent $26 on Bitcoin in 2009. Forgot the password for four years. When he finally cracked it, his 5,000 Bitcoin were worth $886,000.

@SimplyBitcoin hah. How did you remember the password? It's 64 hexadecimal digits.

@finalis_core @SimplyBitcoin No, password not private key. You can encrypt your privkey with a password of any size in the original bitcoin client

@tempstat @SimplyBitcoin I know all this. The year is mentioned there as 2009. If it had been mentioned as 2010, I would have believed it. Do you understand?