$35 MILLION BITCOIN RECOVERED!
Irish police just cracked open a drug dealer’s “lost” Bitcoin wallet after nearly 10 years. Convicted cannabis grower Clifton Collins bought ~6,000 BTC back in 2011–2012 with his profits (when BTC was dirt cheap). He split it across 12 wallets and hid the private keys on paper… inside the aluminum cap of a fishing rod case. After his 2017 arrest, his landlord cleared the house and dumped everything — including the rod. Keys gone. Wallets frozen. Fast forward to March 24, 2026: One wallet suddenly wakes up. 500 BTC (~$35M / €30M) moved in one transaction straight into police control, with help from Europol’s cybercrime unit.
Funds sent to Coinbase custody.
This is the first of the 12 wallets recovered.
The remaining ~5,500 BTC are still worth over $390 million.
From “lost forever” to seized by the state.
Moral of the story?
Backup your seed phrase properly… or the cops might figure it out eventually.
#BitcoinPrices $BTC
Irish police just cracked open a drug dealer’s “lost” Bitcoin wallet after nearly 10 years. Convicted cannabis grower Clifton Collins bought ~6,000 BTC back in 2011–2012 with his profits (when BTC was dirt cheap). He split it across 12 wallets and hid the private keys on paper… inside the aluminum cap of a fishing rod case. After his 2017 arrest, his landlord cleared the house and dumped everything — including the rod. Keys gone. Wallets frozen. Fast forward to March 24, 2026: One wallet suddenly wakes up. 500 BTC (~$35M / €30M) moved in one transaction straight into police control, with help from Europol’s cybercrime unit.
Funds sent to Coinbase custody.
This is the first of the 12 wallets recovered.
The remaining ~5,500 BTC are still worth over $390 million.
From “lost forever” to seized by the state.
Moral of the story?
Backup your seed phrase properly… or the cops might figure it out eventually.
#BitcoinPrices $BTC
