NBA star Kevin Durant has regained access to his bevy of bitcoins, years after getting locked out of his Coinbase account .
"We got this fixed. Account recovery complete," Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Friday in a social media post, replying to a tweet about Durant being locked out of his account on the cryptocurrency exchange.
The message comes just a few days after Durant and his agent Rich Kleiman joked about the predicament at CNBC's Game Plan conference in Los Angeles.
"It's just a process we haven't been able to figure out," Kleiman said Tuesday, referencing Coinbase's account retrieval protocol. "But, bitcoin keeps going up ... so, I mean, it's only benefited us."
Durant purchased bitcoins on Coinbase in 2016, shortly after hearing about the token several times during