Imagine this: you open your Binance account one random morning, expecting to see your usual balance, and instead, there it is—1 #BTC sitting in your wallet. You didn’t buy it, you didn’t win any contest, and you have no idea how it got there.
This is exactly what happened to Ali, a 25-year-old student from Lahore, Pakistan. Ali wasn’t a serious crypto trader. He had created a Binance account months ago out of curiosity, made a few small trades, and then abandoned it. He rarely even checked the app anymore.
One day, bored and scrolling through his phone, he decided to log in and see if his $20 worth of Dogecoin had gained any value. What he saw nearly made him drop his phone—there was 1 BTC, worth over $35,000 at the time, in his wallet.
Ali’s first thought was that it was a scam or a technical error. He logged out and back in, but the Bitcoin was still there. He started googling: “Bitcoin appeared in my wallet for no reason.” He couldn’t find any logical explanation.
Panic set in. What if it was a mistake? What if Binance took it back? What if he got into trouble for holding something that didn’t belong to him? After hours of agonizing, he decided to do nothing. “I didn’t steal it, and I didn’t hack anything,” he thought. “If it’s mine, it’ll stay.”
Days turned into weeks, and the Bitcoin didn’t disappear. Slowly, Ali started to believe it was truly his. To this day, he doesn’t know how or why he got it. Maybe it was an error, maybe a forgotten airdrop, or maybe a glitch in the system.
Ali’s 1 BTC grew in value over the years, reaching $68,000 at one point. He eventually used part of it to fund his education and help his family financially. To him, it felt like the universe had handed him a golden ticket out of nowhere.
The mystery remains unsolved, but Ali doesn’t mind. Every time he looks at his wallet, he smiles and thinks, “What a crazy, lucky world we live in.