Stefan Thomas

3 entries

Event November 23, 2011 Wired

"The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin" — Wired's landmark feature on Bitcoin's first boom and bust

Benjamin Wallace ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Gavin Andresen, Laszlo Hanyecz, Jeff Garzik, Hal Finney, Wei Dai, Nick Szabo, Stefan Thomas, Dan Kaminsky, Amir Taaki

Benjamin Wallace's Wired feature — an early major mainstream article on Bitcoin. Traces the whitepaper, mining boom, Mt. Gox hack, and growing pains, ending with Garzik's "We really don't care."

Event January 12, 2021 new-york-times

Stefan Thomas's 7,002 BTC IronKey lockout — two password attempts left, hundreds of millions frozen

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Stefan Thomas

Stefan Thomas was paid 7,002 BTC in 2011 for a Bitcoin explainer video, stored the keys on a 10-attempt IronKey, and lost the password. By the 2021 NYT report, 2 of 10 attempts remain.

Event June 2, 2026 Wikipedia

Lost Bitcoin — Thomas, Howells, QuadrigaCX, Mt. Gox, FTX and the irreversibility lesson

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Stefan Thomas, James Howells, Gerald Cotten, Mark Karpeles, Sam Bankman-Fried

Cross-cutting reading of iconic Bitcoin losses by mechanism: forgotten password (Thomas), physical disposal (Howells), custody-collapse (QuadrigaCX, Mt. Gox, FTX). Tied to Bitcoin's irreversibility.