Imagine this scenario. January 2013, you buy 100 Bitcoins for $ 1300 without thinking too much about the new cryptocurrency and the little money you spent.
Fast forward to five years and you realize that your 100 Bitcoins are now worth $ 1.3 million. But you have forgotten the password of your Bitcoin wallet – refusing you access to your multi-million dollar fortune.
It would be a nightmare of epic proportions. You probably would be better off facing Jason from Friday the 13th than not being able to access your Bitcoin wallet.
But if you live in Russia, you could pay a hypnotist to help you remember your password After RT, a hypnotist in Russia charges a Bitcoin to help users to remember their lost passwords. If you unlock your wallet, you are also responsible for paying 5% of the amount of Bitcoin you have recovered from your stock.
Denis Derkach, who runs a Russian advertising platform serving cryptocurrency sites, says that people would do almost anything
"With soaring from Bitcoin, many who bought Bitcoin as a toy are now kicking in. They are horrified to see that they could become millionaires if only they remembered the password. "
Veronika Marymur is the hypnotist who helped almost half of her 20 clients remember their lost passwords.
"With the help of hypnosis, I bring a person into an altered state of consciousness when he can remember the information he needs."
Many people have lost Bitcoin through a number of strange, wonderful and ultimately tragic ways. Hard drives engraved with direct hacks, any history of lost Bitcoin is hard to read.