{"id":18727,"date":"2024-11-19T16:10:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/popular-youtuber-loses-seed-phrase-to-ledger-holding-366000-in-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:10:52","slug":"popular-youtuber-loses-seed-phrase-to-ledger-holding-366000-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/popular-youtuber-loses-seed-phrase-to-ledger-holding-366000-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular YouTuber Loses Seed Phrase to Ledger Holding $366,000 in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A renowned Brazilian pianist known as Lord Vinheteiro, with over 7 million YouTube subscribers, has lost access to 4 BTC valued at over 2 million reais (more than $366,000), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/292192\/brazilian-youtube-star-bitcoin-nightmare-hospitalization\">Decrypt<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fabr\u00edcio Andr\u00e9 Bernard Di Paolo, his real name, revealed on X that he misplaced the paper containing the seed phrase for his Bitcoin wallet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Perdi a senha da minha carteira de BTC. Acho que a empregada jogou fora junto com umas partituras velhas que doei pra um sebo do lado da Pra\u00e7a da S\u00e9. Algu\u00e9m sabe como recuperar as senhas da Ledger Nano X?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lord Vinheteiro (@Vinheteiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vinheteiro\/status\/1855756219455053991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I think the housekeeper threw it away along with some old sheet music I donated to a second-hand bookstore. Does anyone know how to recover passwords for Ledger Nano X?&#8221; he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Subsequently, the pianist shared a video of himself searching for a backup in his home library.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Foi s\u00f3 eu comprar 1 BTC (uma unidade) que a m\u00e1gica aconteceu. Eu estava h\u00e1 2.8 anos sem comprar BTC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4inTKXJFS7\">pic.twitter.com\/4inTKXJFS7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lord Vinheteiro (@Vinheteiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vinheteiro\/status\/1820288073076183529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I need to find this paper, or the house will fall apart,&#8221; the blogger said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The incident followed a series of unfortunate investment decisions by Lord Vinheteiro, including purchasing Bitcoin at around $70,000 and selling it at approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Vinheteiro\/status\/1820288073076183529\">$50,000<\/a>. Additionally, he lost over $30,000 on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Vinheteiro\/status\/1856071012044960232\">investments<\/a> in the subsequently bankrupt Brazilian telecommunications company OIBR3.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Foi s\u00f3 eu comprar 1 BTC (uma unidade) que a m\u00e1gica aconteceu. Eu estava h\u00e1 2.8 anos sem comprar BTC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4inTKXJFS7\">pic.twitter.com\/4inTKXJFS7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lord Vinheteiro (@Vinheteiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vinheteiro\/status\/1820288073076183529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A close friend of the pianist, Luan Onofre, discussed his friend&#8217;s financial misfortunes in one of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8dvXUeSGo6I\">podcasts<\/a>. He also mentioned that Vinheteiro was hospitalized due to stress from an unknown illness.<\/p>\n<p>So far, attempts to recover the funds have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">At\u00e9 agora n\u00e3o consegui recuperar os BTC perdidos. Muitos se prontificaram a me ajudar mas todos pediram comiss\u00e3o pra ajudar e com pagamento antecipado. Cheguei a dar um cascalho pra um cara me ajudar mas ele sumiu ap\u00f3s o pagamento. No Brasil ningu\u00e9m ajuda ningu\u00e9m. S\u00f3 querem\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lord Vinheteiro (@Vinheteiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vinheteiro\/status\/1858157558759915631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Many offered to help, but all demanded advance commissions. I even paid one guy who disappeared after receiving the money. In Brazil, no one helps anyone. They are all selfish. I don&#8217;t understand how this country hasn&#8217;t gone bankrupt yet,&#8221; Lord Vinheteiro tweeted on November 17.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In September 2023, Brazilian YouTuber Ivan Bianco lost funds from two cryptocurrency wallets and NFTs totaling ~$60,000 after revealing their seed phrases during a stream.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that Briton James Howells has been searching for a hard drive containing 7,500 BTC for several years. In August 2013, he accidentally discarded it while cleaning his office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has repeatedly sought assistance from Newport city authorities and even offered $72 million as a reward for excavating the landfill, but was refused. Now Howells is prepared to sue the city council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A renowned Brazilian pianist known as Lord Vinheteiro, with over 7 million YouTube subscribers, has lost access to 4 BTC valued at over 2 million reais (more than $366,000), according to Decrypt.\u00a0 Fabr\u00edcio Andr\u00e9 Bernard Di Paolo, his real name, revealed on X that he misplaced the paper containing the seed phrase for his Bitcoin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1437,1640,1103],"class_list":["post-18727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-brazil","tag-ledger","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"61","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}