Looking for “Stone Man” — Bitcointalk user from August 2010 **Looking for “Stone Man” — Bitcointalk user from** **August 2010** TL;DR: I’ve spent the past 18 months analyzing the change-address bug in Bitcoin 0.3.2 that caused the loss of 8,900 BTC by Bitcointalk user #288 (“Stone Man”) on August 9, 2010. I believe these coins can be recovered if the original owner can be found and is willing to share a few technical details. The coins remain his — I’m not asking for anything except to help return them. Background On August 9, 2010, a forum user posted about losing 8,900 BTC due to the notorious “change-address bug” in the Bitcoin 0.3.2 wallet. He had restored an older wallet.dat and made a 1 BTC self-send; the change went to a newly-generated address whose private key was lost when his Live USB system was rebooted.…