On January 7th, it was reported by Coinbase executive Conor on social media that the owner of a wallet address holding 250,000 ETH without any transactions in the past 9 years is Rain Lohmus, the founder of LHV Bank. It is said that Rain Lohmus purchased these ETH for $75,000 in 2014 through an ICO, and currently the value of these ETH has reached approximately $450 million. However, due to the loss of the private key, the wallet cannot be accessed. Rain Lohmus stated that if someone can recover the wallet, they are willing to split the ETH with them.
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The founder of LHV Bank once participated in Ethereum ICO but forgot the private key, and is willing to share $450 million worth of ETH with white hat hackers
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