BITCOIN trader Stefan Thomas lost almost £200million worth of the crypto because he forgot his password – saying the blunder left him feeling like a “complete idiot”.
The devastated German felt the sting as a simple slip of the mind meant he lost access to the 7,002 coins – which are now worth £189,905,495.
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Thomas is just one of the many Bitcoin traders who have seen their fortunes go missing – with an estimated £100billion worth of the highly volatile cryptocurrency now left stranded and inaccessible in the ether online.
He realised he lost the password around 10 years ago when the coins were worth around £100,000 – and he has been left helplessly watching from the sidelines as his missing fortune swelled by almost 19,900 per cent.
The programmer, from San Francisco, forgot the password which would allow him to unlock a hard drive known as an…
