I Forgot My Pin | Mark Frauenfelder | Wired | 29th October 2017
Absolutely enthralling, so long as the slightly geeky premise doesn’t put you off. The author forgets the code needed to unlock his Bitcoin account — which, thanks to a tenfold appreciation of Bitcoin, suddenly contains a very large amount of money. The author is also a technology blogger, so he had taken expert advice when setting up the account to ensuring that nobody without the code could get into it. What to do? Consultations follow with a dark-net hacker, a psychiatrist, and a London teenager