This guy stole BILLIONS, lived like a king for 10 years and got caught because he transferred $800
Jimmy Zhong stole $3.4 billion in Bitcoin and hid it inside a popcorn tin In 2012, a 22 year old college kid found a bug in the Silk Road's withdrawal system Deposit 500 Bitcoin, click withdraw 5 times fast, get 2,500 back The system just kept paying out Fake accounts Same trick Over and over until 50,000 BTC was gone He told his friends the coins came from mining in the early days Nobody questioned it Bought a lakehouse in Georgia and filled it with boats, jet skis, and a stripper pole Private jets Coke Almost a decade living like a king and nobody could trace a single coin Then someone broke into his house and stole 150 BTC This man called the police on his own stolen Bitcoin That police report connected him to the IRS Then he moved $800 through an exchange that required ID Blockchain analysts traced that $800 back to the original Silk Road wallets When the feds raided his house they found a computer hidden inside a popcorn tin stuffed under blankets in a bathroom closet That computer held $3.4 billion in Bitcoin Under the concrete floor they found a buried safe with cash, gold bars, and physical Bitcoin from 2012 The sentence was ONLY 1 year and 1 day $3.4 billion in a popcorn tin Caught because of an $800 transfer
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This guy stole BILLIONS, lived like a king for 10 years and got caught because he transferred $800
Jimmy Zhong stole $3.4 billion in Bitcoin and hid it inside a popcorn tin
In 2012, a 22 year old college kid found a bug in the Silk Road's withdrawal system
Deposit 500 Bitcoin, click withdraw 5 times fast, get 2,500 back
The system just kept paying out
Fake accounts
Same trick
Over and over until 50,000 BTC was gone
He told his friends the coins came from mining in the early days
Nobody questioned it
Bought a lakehouse in Georgia and filled it with boats, jet skis, and a stripper pole
Private jets
Coke
Almost a decade living like a king and nobody could trace a single coin
Then someone broke into his house and stole 150 BTC
This man called the police on his own stolen Bitcoin
That police report connected him to the IRS
Then he moved $800 through an exchange that required ID
Blockchain analysts traced that $800 back to the original Silk Road wallets
When the feds raided his house they found a computer hidden inside a popcorn tin stuffed under blankets in a bathroom closet
That computer held $3.4 billion in Bitcoin
Under the concrete floor they found a buried safe with cash, gold bars, and physical Bitcoin from 2012
The sentence was ONLY 1 year and 1 day
$3.4 billion in a popcorn tin
Caught because of an $800 transfer