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Man has just two password guesses left to access his billion Bitcoin account

A computer programmer who lost his Bitcoin password has just two guesses left before he is locked out of his account forever.

Stefan Thomas has lost the slip of paper with the information to unlock his 7,002 digital coins, which last week were worth a reported £180million (Sh26.9 billion).

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