In 2013, a student named Jeremy Gardner bought some Bitcoin just for fun and put it in a digital wallet on his old phone. He didn’t think much about it and soon forgot about the wallet entirely. Fast forward to 2017—Bitcoin’s price had surged, and Jeremy realized that the Bitcoin on his old phone was now worth a substantial amount.
Excited, he searched everywhere for the phone, but when he finally found it… it was totally dead. He tried everything he could to resurrect it, but the phone wouldn’t even power on. He even considered paying a tech expert to recover it, but the cost was huge. In the end, he had to accept that his forgotten Bitcoin was lost, trapped forever in a digital graveyard.
Moral of the story? Always charge your old phones… just in case they’re holding a fortune in Bitcoin!
