HERE'S HOW THIS MAN MADE $3 BILLION DOLLARS BY DOUBLE CLICKING, AND LOST IT ALL BECAUSE OF A POPCORN TIN. In 2012, Jimmy Zhong was a student at the University of Georgia. He was an early adopter of Bitcoin and a user of the infamous dark web marketplace, the Silk Road. One night, while withdrawing some of his own funds from the site, Zhong accidentally double-clicked the withdraw button. There was a glitch in the Silk Road's code, which made it process both requests, giving him double the money. Sensing an opportunity, Zhong rapidly opened multiple accounts and spammed the withdraw button. In just a few hours, he tricked the system into giving him 50,000 Bitcoins. At the time, they weren't worth much. But as Bitcoin skyrocketed over the next decade, Jimmy's accidental heist became worth over $3 billion. In 2019, Zhong moved a tiny fraction of the stolen funds to a legitimate crypto exchange that needed facial verification. Then the IRS investigators matched the digital trail to his real identity. Federal agents raided his lake house in November 2021, they looked for the digital key to the Bitcoins everywhere but found nothing, until they looked inside a Cheetos popcorn key and found the access keys on a tiny computer inside the tin. Jimmy Zhong was arrested, pled guilty, and surrendered the massive fortune to the US Government in what was, at the time, the largest cryptocurrency seizure in history.
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