Streaming service Netflix has announced a new comedy film that focuses on a couple’s attempts to remember passwords and gain access to millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency.
Netflix announced in a preview Thursday that Hollywood star Jennifer Garner will be one of the stars of the movie “One Attempt Remaining.” The comedy feature will focus on the story of two people who divorce only to discover that the “cryptocurrency they won together on a cruise is now worth millions of dollars…but they forgot the password.”
According to What’s on Netflix, the story includes a notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission saying the couple will have 48 hours to remove $35 million from their wallets before their claims expire.
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Judging by the film’s title, the story could be a romantic comedy inspired by real-life crypto woes, such as the story of Stephen Thomas, the former chief technology officer of Ripple, who was locked out of his Bitcoin.
A former cryptocurrency executive forgot the password to his IronKey hard drive in 2011, where 7,002 Bitcoins (BTC), valued at approximately $640 million at the time of publication, were stored. The drive will erase data after 10 false attempts. Thomas reported that he had not publicly said whether he had regained access to his funds as of December, despite eight attempts.
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For the past 15 years, cryptocurrencies and blockchain have permeated American culture through movies and television series, but the technology has rarely been the focus of feature films.
Some exceptions include the 2020 feature film “Money Plane,” the 2022 documentary “Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King,” about the collapse of the QuadrigaCX exchange, and the upcoming “Going Infinite,” about the fall of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.
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One of the most notorious cases of early cryptocurrency investors losing access to millions of dollars in hardware wallets is that of Welsh entrepreneur James Howells, who reported losing a drive containing 8,000 BTC of private keys.
Mr Howells reported that the car ended up in a UK landfill in 2013. He has been fighting for years with the local city council to get permission to search the site, but as of March 2025, he has exhausted virtually all legal avenues for access.
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