A Tragic Bitcoin Story with a Happy Ending
Some people got really lucky with Bitcoin, but for others, owning cryptocurrency turned into a real drama. Mark Frauenfelder, a journalist from the United States, got interested in Bitcoin when it was just on the rise. Having bought six Bitcoins and a Trezor wallet to store them, he decided to find a very special place to keep his 24-word password.
The drawer wasn’t good enough, so, when he needed to go to Japan for a business trip, he slipped the paper with the wallet’s password under his daughter’s pillow, hoping it would be all safe and sound there.
Imagine his surprise, when he didn’t find the cherished paper upon getting home from the trip. It turned out the house was cleaned while he was away and the password was lost for good! It took the journalist half a year to retrieve the password - when he did, his $3,000 turned into $30,000!