📌 Daily interesting crypto fact until BTC recovers the $100K support:
📍Day 30: For years, the case of Clifton Collins, an Irish cannabis dealer who bought 6,000 BTC in 2011 (for about $5 each), was the ultimate cautionary tale. After his arrest in 2017, Collins claimed his 12 private keys—written on a single sheet of A4 paper—were lost forever when his landlord cleared out his house and threw his belongings, including an old aluminium fishing rod case where the paper was hidden, into a landfill in County Galway.
But this week, the "Lost Keys" have suddenly woken up. On Tuesday, March 24, blockchain analysts (including Arkham Intelligence) flagged a massive movement: 500 BTC ($35 million) was transferred from one of Collins' "dormant" wallets to Coinbase Prime.
While the internet speculated if Collins had secretly kept a backup after his recent release from prison, the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) of Ireland confirmed yesterday that they were behind the move. With high-level technical assistance from Europol, authorities have finally managed to "crack" the first of the 12 wallets. After a decade in the dark, one of the world's most famous lost fortunes—now worth over $420 million—is being recovered by the state, one block at a time.