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A father and son who help clients find forgotten crypto passwords estimate billions of dollars worth of lost bitcoin is recoverable | Currency News | Financial and Business News

Charlie and Chris Brooks run Crypto Asset Recovery, a small business in New Hampshire.

Crypto Asset Recovery


  • A father and son team of computer programmers help people find lost passwords to their crypto wallets.

  • Chris and Charlie Brooks conducted an analysis that led them to estimate between 68,110 and 92,855 seemingly lost bitcoins are recoverable.

  • At current prices, the high end of the recoverable bitcoin estimate amounts to $4.7 billion.

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For Chris and Charlie Brooks, finding lost passwords to cryptocurrency wallets requires figuring out how their clients’

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American father, son get Japan prison terms for Ghosn escape

TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court handed down prison terms for the American father and son accused of helping Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, escape to Lebanon while awaiting trial in Japan.

Michael Taylor was sentenced Monday to two years in prison, while his son Peter was sentenced to one year and eight months. 

They were charged with helping a criminal in the December 2019 escape of Ghosn, who hid in a big box that was flown on a private jet via Turkey to Lebanon. Lebanon has no extradition treaty with Japan. 

In handing down the sentencing, Chief Judge Hideo

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Jean Friend
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The father of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach received an anonymous donation of a cryptocurrency fortune – now the local economy runs on it | Currency News | Financial and Business News


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  • Michael Peterson became the so-called Father of Bitcoin Beach, Bloomberg Businessweek reported.

  • Thanks to an anonymous donation, Peterson helped El Zonte widely adopt the currency.

  • Lawmakers in El Salvador have since voted to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender.

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47-year-old Michael Peterson fell in love with El Zonte, a Pacific-coast beach in El Salvador, 17 years ago when he visited for a surfing trip.

The town grew on him, and he and his family started splitting their time between

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Jean Friend
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American father and son charged in Japan with helping ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn escape to Lebanon

Tokyo — Japanese prosecutors have charged two Americans, Michael Taylor and his son Peter, in connection with the escape of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn to Lebanon. Tokyo District Prosecutors have been questioning the Taylors since they were extradited from the United States earlier this month. They’ve been detained at a Tokyo detention center since March 2 – the same one where Ghosn was held, the Reuters news service points out.

Prosecutors said the Taylors were formally charged Monday with helping a criminal escape. The prosecutors had been seeking their extradition for months after they were arrested and detained in

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