If you’re into Bitcoin and feel like channeling your inner scavenger, there’s a landfill somewhere on planet earth with a fishing rod case full of millions of dollars in the cryptocurrency.
This dude in Ireland named Clifton Collins (he’s 49 years old by the way, if you’re interested in that information) is — or was, not sure on his current status – a drug dealer and invested money he made from his drug-selling profits in Bitcoin back in 2011.
When he first started doing it, bitcoins cost around $4 to $6, and today are worth around $9,700.
Bring that to today’s value and dude had a total value of around $58 MILLION!!
In 2017, Clifton was arrested for his activities in his chosen career field, and went to prison for a few years.
During his time in the pen, Clifton’s landlord cleaned out his place. Dude wasn’t using it, nor paying the rent, after all.
Fun fact about Bitcoin: you need codes to access the money . . . and wouldn’t you know it, Clifton hid those codes in his fishing rod case.
You know where this is going, right?
The landlord threw away the fishing rod case with those Bitcoin access codes hidden inside!
Turns out, the dump it went to sends its trash to Germany and China . . . so those codes are hanging out in a random landfill in one of those two countries . . . unless it’s been incinerated.
The Irish government has been doing their best to try to seize the bitcoin for the past few years, but have pretty much accepted that their efforts are in vain until new technology presents itself to allow them to access it.
