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😮 Back in 2013, a 26-year-old engineer lost his life in a motorcycle accident in Vancouver. 🇨🇦

He had 438 $BTC Bitcoin stashed in an Electrum wallet.

His wife knew they existed. She knew the software name. She knew they were worth something.

But she didn’t know the password.
There was no seed phrase written down anywhere.
No instructions to follow.

They spent 4 years trying to recover them with digital forensic experts.

They failed.

Today, those 438 BTC are worth over 40 million dollars. $USDT

They remain there. Intact. Inaccessible. Forever.

This isn’t an isolated case. It’s estimated that between 17% and 23% of all circulating Bitcoin is permanently locked — wallets of people who passed away without leaving instructions.

It wasn’t lost to a hacker.
It wasn’t lost to the market.
It was lost to silence.

Do you have a legacy access plan for your digital assets?

If it takes longer than 3 seconds to answer… you know what you need to do today.

#bitcoin #HerenciaDigital #SeguridadCrypto #FranBerlin #InstitutoBlockchain

Fran Berlín | Blockchain Institute