This is the seventh largest Bitcoin holder


A drug dealer who lost access to millions in Bitcoin for years
But this year the police managed to unlock it
His name is Clifton Collins
Irish drug dealer
Made money trafficking cannabis
Bought Bitcoin in early 2011-2012 when it was around $10-20
Accumulated approximately 6,000 BTC
Address:
3ASF4VfsBHXZS9HMqwBYhe1W96P35KiaKC
2017
Becomes paranoid about hacks
Divides everything into 12 wallets
~500 BTC each
Prints private keys on paper, hides them inside a fishing rod case, and keeps it in a rented house in Ireland
Then everything falls apart
He is arrested
Sentenced to prison
The owner cleans the house
The fishing rod case disappears, ends up in a landfill incinerated
The keys are lost forever and ~6,000 BTC are locked away
The government seizes the wallets but cannot access them
March 2026
One of the wallets wakes up
500 BTC
~$35 million
Suddenly transferred
Irish authorities with Europol somehow manage to access it
No one clarifies how they did it
And now here’s the interesting part, there are still 11 wallets left
~5,500 BTC
~$400 million+
They can probably decipher the rest
What was lost in 2017 could all come back in 2026
BTC-2.25%
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