Writer Jia Tolentino has a new case for Super Tech Support: where are all those bitcoin she bought six years ago?
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ALEX: Jia says that she bought about 80 bucks worth of bitcoin for this drug purchase, and she knows that there was bitcoin left over. But, in the 6 years since the original purchase, she has totally forgotten what happened to the bitcoin.
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ALEX: I think that was actually just her putting money in her bank account. Either way, she goes home, gets on the internet, just like, the regular internet, not the dark web, and she goes to this thing called a bitcoin exchange, think of it as a bank
ALEX: It was not water damage. I opened up the computer and it turns out that the battery had exploded inside the computer. But, I managed to get the hard drive out, I connected it to my computer, and I went down into the studio with Producer Damiano Marchetti.
The only bright point in this dark tale, I mean, at least for us, is that Mt. Gox puts a portal on their website that lets you check to see if you had bitcoin there when the site shut down.
Like, a good example of that is, he was in the process of renovating a floor in the Mt. Gox building, because he was really into caramel lattes, to make a cafe, where he wanted to serve apple pie and quiche that he baked? That was like his priority.
ALEX: Basically I asked Jia, are you sure you got your bitcoin Mt. Gox. She said yes. She sent me a confirmation email. And unless she got it on Mt. Gox and then moved it to another bitcoin exchange, it must be on her laptop. I must have missed something.
ALEX: He said that- he said that that was like outside of his area of expertise: he could not do it. But there are people who claim they can, and so he put me in touch with this company called Chainalysis.
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