Anecdotally, there seems to be a lot of evidence to support this theory. How many early adopters lost their wallet files, or their passwords, and how many are technically incapable of resolving those issues themselves? And why haven't they tried to access those files sooner?
I don't know, maybe I'm being overly skeptical, but something doesn't add up considering the quantity of these types of threads.
I don't know, maybe I'm being overly skeptical, but something doesn't add up considering the quantity of these types of threads.
The practice of backup & recovering wallet wasn't common in early days, especially when Bitcoin was less valuable and sometimes perceived as geekish hobby.
So IMO it's not weird to see actual early adopters lots their wallet files, wallet password and have no idea how to fix the problem.
I do agree that the occurance is too high, even if there are few legit cases.
