Now here's something you don't want to do, a man in Wales has accidentally thrown out his hard drive which has his bitcoin wallet with 7500BTC on it, it's now buried somewhere in a landfill site:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-4million-bitcoin-treasure-hunt-newport-wales-computer-hard-drive-thrown-out-with-rubbish-133041090.html
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-4million-bitcoin-treasure-hunt-newport-wales-computer-hard-drive-thrown-out-with-rubbish-133041090.html
The stupidity was not making a backup.
You know there have to be more than a few wallets full of BTC sitting on hard-drives on computers in second-hand stores and pawn shops. I look forward to hearing some interesting stories.
A friend lost a relative recently who got on the btc bandwagon in 2010, the guys widow doesn't even know what bitcoin is. He died Saturday night, friends been trying to decide how to approach the wife about recovering them for her. I imagine lot's of these types of stories will come out over the following years!
Tell him to do it soon. People act hastily in grief. She may give the computer to a nephew or something.
One of our Partners had been in Bitcoin since late 2012. He died unexpectedly early 2013, and we suggested the widow certain measures of Bitcoin recovery. She refused, saying, that despite she had heard him constantly talking about it, it is unlikely that he had any or that it would matter.
So you offered big for all computer equipment in the house?