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Jan 8 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
This guy stole $3.3B and then hid it in a Cheetos popcorn tin.

Meet Jimmy Zhong.

In 2012, he found a loophole on the Silk Road website, so he drained 51,860 bitcoins.

For 9 years, he evaded the authorities, until he made one tiny, unbelievable mistake:🧵 Image
Image In 2012, Jimmy discovered a loophole on Silk Road, a popular darknet marketplace.

He noticed that he could receive more bitcoin than he initially put into his wallet by clicking the withdrawal button multiple times in succession.

credit: @CrumbOSRS
Dec 23, 2024 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
This 20-year-old committed one of the biggest person-to-person heists in history.

Meet Malone Lam.

In August 2024, he scammed someone of 4,100 BTC and then bought 31 supercars.

Here’s the simple trick he used: Image
Image A 20-year-old Singaporean, Malone Lam, and his accomplice, Jeandiel Serrano were arrested for stealing $230M in crypto from an anonymous man a few months ago.

How did it happen?
Dec 20, 2024 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
This New York couple executed the 2nd-largest bitcoin heist in history.

Together, they stole 119,756 BTC in 2016 (worth $12.8B today).

It was so bad that $BTC tanked 20% in less than a day.

Here's the full story
(Netflix and Amazon are currently making 2 movies out of this): Image In August 2016, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan hacked one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bitfinex.

They moved 119,756 $BTC, worth $12.8B today, from customer accounts.
Nov 21, 2024 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
This is James Howells.

His Bitcoin is worth $541M today.

He knows exactly where it is buried.

But the government won't let him dig for it.

Here's the story of the most expensive mistake in human history: Image In the early days of Bitcoin, it was so inexpensive to mine that several people used their computers to do so.

James Howells, a British engineer, successfully mined 8000 bitcoins and stored them on a hard drive.

In August 2013, he accidentally disposed of the hard drive.
Jul 4, 2021 • 27 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Thread on the early financial history of the United States 🇺🇸👇 2/ Before the Revolutionary War, the Colonies were largely tied to Great Britain’s monetary system, administered by the Bank of England, which used a bimetallic standard (gold & silver) to back its paper currency.