Oscillating fan helps bitcoiner recover bitcoin wallet worth ~$100,000
I happened to see this Twitter thread.
"Who’s ready for a really hectic story explaining how I was able to recover around $100,000 of coin from a broken PC despite every data recovery specialist in the US telling me I was screwed."
"*After giving up hope I came up on this random reddit video of a guy turning on and turning off his Surface [...] for 24 hours. When it turned on everything was fixed. I figured it was worth a shot."
"I tweeted asking help to find something that would push a button on/off. I tried a massage gun, which was too fast, then some other stuff, but I eventually went to CVS and got an oscillating fan to push the button. The Surface took 2 full days - almost 48 hours to fully drain."
"15 minutes ago, it finally died. I went and plugged it back in, hoping this full battery drain and reset would fix the issue that kept blocking it from booting up again - and it actually worked lol. Coins secured and I’m never touching that laptop again."
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