And finally… bit unfortunate

A drug dealer’s €55 million fortune cannot be recovered by authorities because he lost the codes to access his Bitcoin accounts.

And finally... bit unfortunate

The Criminal Assets Bureau in Ireland confiscated the 12 accounts in what would have been its largest-ever seizure, but they are virtually worthless without the digital key, The Irish Times reports.

The drug dealer, 49-year-old Clifton Collins, in question cannot access the accounts either, as he hid the keys with a fishing rod which has since gone missing.



The €53.6 million value of the accounts, which the cannabis dealer accumulated over nearly a decade, has effectively been lost forever.

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