[zmaurelius]

Holding a large amount of cryptocurrency without multiple backups spread around various geographical locations is foolish. So ultimately to store cryptocurrency securely, its never actually easy when you get down to the nuts and bolts of it.

[Scoundreller]

Who said he didn’t have any other backups elsewhere?

Impossible to prove he didn’t have his private keys backed up elsewhere.

[ilyt]

Steganography might've been interesting way to deal with it, make big QR code with credentials to 1M wallet and hide 1B wallet info as steganography in that picture