He Sat on $10M in Bitcoin for 13 Years—What Made This Chap Finally Blink?
Picture it: May 13th. Our protagonist — known in the wilds of BitcoinTalk as the shadowy and slightly Randian “John Galt” — reports the big move: a cool 100 Bitcoin (BTC) migrating from the safe embrace of a brass-and-bling Casascius bar into a newfangled hardware wallet. For those blissfully unaware, Casascius bars and coins are the sort of thing that cause both collectors and pickpockets to swoon — tangible tokens with secret keys nestled away under a sliver of film, like the prize in a particularly lucrative chocolate bar.