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You could spend 20 years building wealth in crypto and still leave your family with nothing. > I've been thinking about this lately, and I think everyone should also give it some serious thought. > This might be a little long, but it's something I think everyone building wealth in crypto should think about. > We're so focused on making money, finding the next coin that could do 100X and flipping memecoins for life-changing gains > But we rarely stop to think about what happens to all that money/assets when we're gone. > Think about it. > You spend years accumulating Bitcoin, ETH and other altcoins. > You move your assets into cold wallets, secure your seed phrases and do everything possible to protect what you've built. > But have you ever thought about who gets access to all of it when you die? > Death is uncomfortable to talk about, but it's inevitable. > And I don't think preparing for it should be something we keep postponing. > Your family might know you own crypto. They might even know you have MILLIONS sitting in wallets. > But do they know where those wallets are? Do they know how to access them? > Because knowing the money exists and being able to access it are two very different things. > A few days ago, I was tracking a wallet linked to the Mt. Gox hack. > It caught my attention that the Bitcoin sitting in that particular wallet had not moved in 15 years. > Some people speculate that the person behind it may no longer be alive. > We can't know that from the blockchain, but it got me thinking about how much wealth could become permanently inaccessible simply because nobody has the keys. > QuadrigaCX is another example. > After its founder Gerald Cotten died, the exchange's customers were left facing a massive financial shortfall, with serious questions around access to its assets. > And estimates suggest that MILLIONS of Bitcoin may already be lost forever. Some of this to death and lost keys > Now imagine spending your entire life trying to give your children and family a better future, only for them to discover that the wealth you left behind is locked behind a seed phrase nobody knows. > That's a painful thought. > And no, I'm not saying you should hand someone your private keys today. > You wouldn't hand over all your property while preparing your will. > You make arrangements for what happens when you're no longer around. > Crypto deserves the same kind of planning. > We all hope to live long lives, but none of us knows what tomorrow holds. > Document where your assets are. Make proper inheritance arrangements. > Have a secure way for the people you trust to access what you've built when the time comes. > We talk so much about generational wealth in crypto, but are we actually making sure the next generation can inherit it? > Take some time to think about this and put a plan in place. Don't spend your entire life building wealth for your family, only to leave them with a wallet they can see but never open.

If you think you're having a bad day, imagine deleting an email that could have made you a millionaire. In 2011, a British man bought 61 Bitcoin for just £2.94 each. By 2018, the exchange that held his coins had shut down, and he had almost given up hope of ever getting them back. Then two of the exchange's founders emailed former customers about their missing Bitcoin. He deleted the emails because he thought they were scams. By the time he finally contacted a law firm in 2026, those 61 Bitcoin were worth over £3.3 MILLION. After a legal battle, he got every single coin back. Imagine deleting the email that could have made you a millionaire.

So you're telling me... Ansem changed his PFP and started shilling $mihao directly from his page The token went from a $2M market cap to nearly $12M And someone has already turned $444 into $69K (155x) on $mihao We all know how this is going to end 😭

This might be the most expensive 64 seconds in crypto history. A trader bought $167 worth of solana:2qEHjDLDLbuBgRYvsxhc5D6uDWAivNFZGan56P1tpump back in 2024, received 35.7 MILLION tokens, then sold them just 64 seconds later for only $120. At $PNUT's $2.44 ATH, those tokens would have been worth around $87 MILLION. Even after the 98% drop, that bag would still be worth around $1.1 MILLION today. Would you have been able to live with yourself?

I knew crypto wasn't going to escape the stock market sell off. bitcoin:native just dropped below $73K for the first time in 84 days. $292 MILLION has been liquidated in the crypto market in just ONE HOUR. The sell off is getting ugly 😭

A man stole over $37 MILLION in crypto by creating a fake Coinbase website that looked almost identical to the real one. He tricked hundreds of users into giving up their login details, then spent the money on Lamborghinis, Porsches and luxury watches. > In June 2021, Chirag Tomar and his co-conspirators created a fake version of Coinbase Pro using the domain CoinbasePro com. > They designed the website to look almost identical to the real Coinbase Pro login page. > When users entered their login details, the scammers captured the information and used it to access their actual Coinbase accounts. > They also impersonated Coinbase support agents, tricking victims into sharing their authentication codes or giving them remote access to their computers. > Once inside the accounts, they transferred the victims' crypto into wallets controlled by Tomar and his co-conspirators. > Tomar moved the stolen crypto between wallets, converted it into other cryptocurrencies and eventually cashed it out. > He used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle, buying Rolex and Audemars Piguet watches, Lamborghinis and Porsches, and taking trips to Dubai and Thailand. > On December 20, 2023, Tomar was arrested at Atlanta airport while entering the United States. > On May 20, 2024, he pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy. > The US Department of Justice announced that the scheme had stolen over $37 MILLION. > On October 17 2024, he was sentenced to five years in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release. A man built a fake Coinbase website, stole over $37 MILLION from crypto users and spent the money on luxury cars, before being arrested at an airport.

If you think you've made a bad crypto decision, remember this hacker. In 2011, he stole nearly 80,000 BTC from Mt.Gox and left them sitting in one wallet. Those coins are now worth BILLIONS of dollars. 15 years later, the entire fortune is still sitting in the same public address, untouched. Imagine stealing $5.9 BILLION and never being able to spend it.

A 15 year old hacker stole $24 MILLION in crypto, crashed the price of the token he stole while cashing out, bought a $50,000 watch, and got exposed by a transfer he made to his own account. > In January 2018, Ellis Pinsky was a 15-year-old high school student in New York who spent his time hacking online accounts. > He teamed up with another hacker and targeted Michael Terpin, a well-known cryptocurrency investor. > They bribed an AT&T employee to transfer Terpin's phone number to a SIM card they controlled. > On January 7, they took over his number and used it to reset passwords to his online accounts. > They eventually found a document containing his crypto wallet credentials inside the trash folder of his Microsoft OneDrive. > One wallet held more than 3 million TRIG tokens, worth approximately $24 MILLION at the time. > Pinsky and his associate gained access and started moving the tokens. > As they dumped millions of tokens to cash out, TRIG's price collapsed. > They converted the stolen funds into Bitcoin and moved them through multiple accounts. > But Pinsky made a careless move. He sent some of the stolen crypto to his own account just to confirm it was real. > That transaction left a trail investigators could follow. > Pinsky used his share to buy a $50,000 Patek Philippe watch and kept nearly $100,000 in cash in a small safe under his bed, according to his own account. > Terpin hired investigators and began tracking down the people behind the theft. > Pinsky eventually returned 562 BTC, the watch and nearly $100,000 in cash. > In October 2022, he agreed to a $22 MILLION judgment in Terpin's favour, after receiving credit for about $2 MILLION already repaid. > His associate, Nicholas Truglia, was separately sentenced to 18 months in prison. Pinsky was just 15 when he pulled off the theft. He took over a phone number, found a forgotten document in a deleted folder, and stole $24 MILLION. But a transfer to his own account helped leave a trail back to him.

A man spent $26.60 buying Bitcoin, completely forgot about it, and four years later discovered he was sitting on 5,000 BTC worth $886,000 at the time. > In 2009 Kristoffer Koch was researching encryption for his thesis when he came across Bitcoin. > Back then, one Bitcoin was worth around $0.0054. > He got curious about the technology and decided to buy some. > He spent 150 Norwegian kroner, approximately $26.60, and ended up with 5,000 BTC. > He wasn't thinking about getting rich. He was just interested in the technology. > In fact, his girlfriend thought he was wasting money buying random tech stuff he barely used. > After making the purchase, Koch pretty much forgot about his Bitcoin and moved on with his life. > For four years, those 5,000 BTC sat in his encrypted wallet. > Then in 2013, Bitcoin started appearing everywhere in the news as its price began to explode. > That's when Koch suddenly remembered he had bought some years earlier. > He went searching for his old wallet, only to realise he couldn't remember the password. > He spent an entire day trying to figure it out but eventually got in. > The $26.60 he had spent four years earlier was now worth approximately $886,000. > He sold around one-fifth of his Bitcoin and used the money to help buy an apartment in Oslo, Norway. > Today the 5,000 would worth about $370 MILLION if he never sold them. Koch had bought 5,000 BTC simply because he was curious about a new technology. He forgot about them, nearly lost access to them, and eventually discovered he was sitting on a fortune.

Crypto OGs who've survived multiple bear markets: - What were the biggest signs that told you the market was nearing its bottom, and what made you start DCAing? - What's one piece of advice you'd give someone experiencing their first bear market? Let's hear those lessons 👇

A man went from thinking Bitcoin was a scam to helping Facebook build its own cryptocurrency, before leaving to create a $2 BILLION blockchain company. > Adeniyi Abiodun was born in Nigeria and moved to the UK when he was seven. > He studied software engineering and began his career building software for the oil and banking industries. > In 2011, a colleague introduced him to Bitcoin. > At first, he thought it was a scam. > But after studying the technology, he became interested and started mining Bitcoin himself. > Friends soon began asking him to help set up their own mining operations. > What started as a personal experiment grew into a Bitcoin mining business. > He later worked at Oracle and VMware, gaining experience in enterprise technology and blockchain. > Then Facebook recruited him to work on Libra, its ambitious plan to create a global digital currency. > But the project faced regulatory pressure and never launched as originally planned. > In 2021, Adeniyi and four other former members of the Libra team left Meta to build something of their own. > They founded Mysten Labs. > In 2022, the company raised $36 MILLION from investors led by a16z. > A few months later, it raised another $300 MILLION at a $2 BILLION valuation. > Their project was Sui, a new blockchain built by the team behind Meta's Move programming language. > Sui launched its mainnet in May 2023 and today it's more than $300M. A man who once thought Bitcoin was a scam went on to build in crypto, work on Facebook's digital currency project, and co-found a multibillion-dollar blockchain company. Imagine if he'd never given Bitcoin a second look.

A man spent years teaching people about Bitcoin, but when he admitted he wasn't rich from it, one of Bitcoin's biggest figures mocked him. What happened next made him a millionaire. > Andreas Antonopoulos had been educating people about Bitcoin since 2012. > He wrote books, gave hundreds of talks and helped thousands of people understand Bitcoin. > But there was one thing he didn't have, a massive Bitcoin fortune. > In December 2017, Roger Ver, popularly known as Bitcoin Jesus, questioned why Andreas hadn't become rich from Bitcoin despite being an early advocate. > Andreas replied that he had actually bought Bitcoin early. > But in 2013, he sold his holdings to pay rent and support his family. > He had spent years working on Bitcoin without a steady income and couldn't afford to keep holding. > That response changed everything. > Bitcoin supporters began sharing his donation address, encouraging people who had benefited from his work to give something back. > Within three days, hundreds of donations had poured in. > One person sent 79 bitcoin:native, while another donation was worth $1.2 MILLION at the time. > By December 8, Andreas had received approximately 102 bitcoin:native worth $1.6 MILLION at the time. > At today's Bitcoin price, those 102 bitcoin:native would be worth approximately $7.5 MILLION. > Andreas was so overwhelmed that he described reading the messages with tears in his eyes. > He had spent years helping people discover Bitcoin and when the community found out he wasn't wealthy, they sent him a fortune.

A man spent years selling virtual swords, armor and World of Warcraft gold. Then he flew to Tokyo to help a hacked Bitcoin exchange. What he saw inspired him to build Kraken. > In 2001, Jesse Powell started a business selling virtual items and currencies from online games. > He sold everything from World of Warcraft gold to Diablo swords, serving customers who wanted to buy and sell digital items. > In early 2011, he discovered Bitcoin and began exploring how it could make payments easier for his virtual goods business. > Then in June 2011, Mt. Gox, the world's largest Bitcoin exchange at the time, was hit by a major hack. > Powell was invited to help. > He took a last minute flight to Tokyo and spent around two weeks working inside the exchange. > He helped write the press release, answer customer complaints, hire staff and build a support team. > But the experience exposed a much bigger problem. > Mt. Gox was so central to Bitcoin trading that when it went offline, much of the market ground to a halt. > Powell returned home convinced the industry needed another exchange, one that put security and professional operations first. > He teamed up with his technical team and started building it. > On July 28, 2011, Kraken was born. > Today, Kraken is one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world. A man who started out selling virtual swords and game currency ended up building one of crypto's most important trading platforms. Imagine if he'd never booked that flight to Tokyo.

Most people don't know this, but a Bible verse is permanently recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain. > On January 18 2021, Bitcoin block 666,666 was mined. > Someone used one of its transactions to embed a message using Bitcoin's OP_RETURN function. > It reads: "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." – Romans 12:21. > The transaction also sent Bitcoin to two unusual vanity addresses beginning with "1GoD" and "1BibLE". The message is still permanently recorded on Bitcoin and anyone can verify it today.