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Irish Police Crack a "Lost" Bitcoin Wallet - 500 BTC Recovered
One of crypto's most famous "lost forever" stories just flipped.
Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau + Europol accessed a dormant wallet tied to drug dealer Clifton Collins, moving 500 BTC (~$39M) to Coinbase Prime.
The backstory: Collins bought ~6,000 BTC in 2011–12 for a few dollars each. Split across 12 wallets. Keys printed on ONE sheet of paper, hidden in a fishing rod case. After his arrest, the landlord cleared the house and Keys Gone.
$BTC's cryptography was NOT broken. This is a key-management lesson, not a hack. The weakest link in crypto is never the blockchain, it's how YOU store your keys.
11 wallets (~5,500 BTC) still locked. Same method may unlock them all.
Lesson: Multiple backups. Test your recovery. Never trust a single piece of paper.