[illumin8]

My brother accidentally deleted his wallet.dat from Dropbox a few years ago - he had given it a random filename and encrypted it with GPG so it was unrecognizable to hackers (and apparently him as well).

It had 1,000 BTC in it! He had received them from a generous Bitcoin contributor in the early days who said "here you go, hold on to it, it will be worth something someday."

I still give him a hard time about his $3 million USD mistake...

[sweettea]

Did he try Dropbox support to see if they have a backup?

[illumin8]

Oh yeah, completely exhausted that route - it was over a year before he realized it and way past their retention period...

[zulln]

"Hi Dropbox support! You get $1m USD if you figure this out."

[zuck9]

Generous bitcoin contributor may be thinking that he made a wrong choice of giving away.

[illumin8]

He probably has several times that amount...