Developer claims new tool can recover 8,999 BTC lost in 2010

A developer claims to have created a new CUDA-based tool capable of recovering 8,999 BTC lost in 2010, BeInCrypto reported. The funds, which belonged to a user known as Stone Man, were lost due to a bug in an early version of the Bitcoin client. The developer, a Reddit user named CompetitiveRough8180, asserts the tool can exploit weak entropy, or randomness, in the old client software to retrieve the lost coins. The stash of 8,999 BTC is currently valued at over $700 million.