A Chinese man has been sentenced to ten years and nine months for stealing 107 bitcoins without forgetting the mnemonic phrase 'hard memory' BlockBeats News: On June 8th, according to Knews, the Supreme People's Procuratorate disclosed a new type of virtual currency theft case on June 7th. A man named Zhang from Shandong has been assisting his acquaintance Feng in handling virtual currency transactions for a long time. After gaining the trust of the other party, he voluntarily proposed that Feng replace his digital wallet with a more convenient one. The asset mnemonic words (keys) of this type of wallet are randomly selected from 2048 commonly used English words by the system to generate 12 combinations, which are the core passwords for storing virtual currency. Taking advantage of the gap when Feng copied the mnemonic words, Zhang firmly memorized 11 complete words with his naked eye and super strong memory, and even memorized the first letter of the last word. That night, relying on fragmented memory for repeated testing and combination cracking, Feng successfully unlocked his digital wallet, transferred 107 bitcoins from the other party, and subsequently sold them for illegal profits of 660000 yuan. The court ultimately sentenced him to ten years and nine months in prison for theft and fined him 100000 yuan. [Original link]