$BTC In despair, he mistakenly stored his key on a discarded hard drive and vanished from sight. Late at night in 2021, the old hard drive was surprisingly repaired—bitcoin had soared past $64,000, and the code error that had caused it to 'zero out' back then inadvertently protected the untriggered transaction instructions. He trembled as he pressed the confirmation key, the blue light of the screen reflecting his tears: it turned out that fate had never taken his chips away; it had only taught him to wait for the next heartbeat in the world of cryptocurrency.