An Irish drug dealer bought 6,000 Bitcoin in 2011 for pocket change.


He printed the keys on paper. Hid them inside a fishing rod case.
Then got arrested. His landlord threw everything away.
The coins sat frozen for 9 years. Untouchable. Gone forever.
Until this year.
Irish police and Europol have now cracked 3 of his 12 wallets without ever finding the keys. 1,500 $BTC recovered. $92 million and counting.
Nobody will say how they did it.
$277 million is still sitting in the other 9 wallets.
This is one of the strangest true crime stories in Bitcoin's history, and it's still unfolding right now.
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