Title: On the 8th of June 2014 I purchased 1970 Ethereum from the Ethereum Foundation Presale and received an email to my Gmail account containing my wallet.
As CS student overwhelmed by his thesis I managed to completely ignore the backup instructions and instead left my wallet in my Gmail account.
At least the thesis was good :)<p>You can probably tell where this story is going.
I promptly forgot about this whole event and in 2015 while cleaning out my email account I deleted most of my recently received emails and incidently taking out the wallet with it.
Again I&#x27;d like to state that the loss of the wallet is completely my fault.<p>Recently, the price of Ethereum has skyrocketed to over 200 USD per coin, meaning the wallet is now worth ~400k USD.
This means that I can now offer a nice bounty on its retrieval!<p>I&#x27;m publicly posting here in the hope that someone from the Gmail team can check and see if they have a copy of the email saved in Google&#x27;s backups.
Should its contents be retrieveable, I&#x27;d like to offer 20% of the wallet&#x27;s contents (~80k USD) as a finder&#x27;s fee, alternatively if you choose to forfit this, I&#x27;ll donate 50% (~200k USD) to a charity of your choice.<p>I realise that this is a last ditch attempt and that wallet is most likely lost forever.<p>This brings us to the morale of the story - &quot;make sure you have backups and they work!&quot;
The 2nd morale is - &quot;no matter how badly you mess up, at least you aren&#x27;t the guy that deleted an email worth 400k!&quot;<p>If you work on Gmail and you can help or know someone that will lead to its retrevial please contact me [at] lostethpresale@doge.st<p>Best wishes!<p>If you want, you can encrypt your mail to me with my public key: (text too long for HN)
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