"There was a time when money parted with a fool very soon. You don't have to be a fool to do it," said American politician Edlai Stevenson, and now his quote is more relevant than ever. The crypto world is no different from the fiat world, and now, by mistake, inexperience, or just plain stupidity, you can part with large sums quickly and ruthlessly. And you can become a millionaire unexpectedly. In this article, I will tell you about three ridiculous situations in the world of crypto.Without a piece of paper, you are 💩It's 2016, and cryptocurrency is gaining momentum at every turn. Mark Fauenfelder, a journalist from the United States, buys 7 bitcoins for 3 thousand dollars and is happy to see the crypto's gold rate rising inexorably! "It's one step to riches," Mark thought, and in his joy, he purchased a Trezor hardware wallet. Naturally, access to the wallet required coming up with twenty-four words in any order so that it could be password protected. The man wrote the words on a piece of paper and placed it in a secluded drawer on his desk. He wanted to engrave the words on a metal plate so that he wouldn't lose them, but then he was called on a business trip to Japan. Mark had decided to go there with his wife, but being a shy man, he decided to put the words for the purse under his daughter's pillow. If something happens to the spouses, then let the bitcoins go to the children, the journalist pondered.As you can understand, after returning home, Mark could not find the cherished paper. The house was cleaned and thrown out with the garbage. It took Mark almost six months to find the right combination of words. Six months of living under stress, starving, and having nightmares During that time, three thousand dollars turned into thirty! This scary story had a happy ending for Mark!Garbage storyNow let's go back to 2013. One of the crypto-enthusiastic bitcoin holders was a British man named James Howells. While cleaning, James threw the hard disk from a broken laptop into a landfill. At that time, it stored 7.5 thousand bitcoins, which even then amounted to $9.3 million. The realization came to the man after a month. For a whole month, that "platinum" hard disk was lying under mountains of garbage in a landfill. He went to the landfill to look for it, but to no avail; the landfill was the size of a soccer field and was growing in size every month. James still hasn't given up hope of finding the disk but has encountered serious bureaucratic problems: officials don't want to give permission for a large-scale search, as there is a high probability that nothing will be found, so there's no point in disturbing the garbage mountains.And now the cherry on top of this garbage story: James knows his wallet number and sees all his virtual savings on it, but the only copy of the wallet keys is stored on the very hard drive, buried in tons of garbage. It's scary to think how unbearable it is to realize that you have over $55 million but will not be able to access it.Apartment for $5In 2009, Norwegian student Christopher Koch was looking for materials for an essay on encryption and noticed bitcoin. He decided to illustrate the essay in practice and bought 5000 coins for 150 kroner (about $26 at the exchange rate at the time), completed the student's essay, and forgot all about this educational experiment. The epiphany came to Christopher in 2013, when he accidentally saw the news that the bitcoin rate had reached a record at that time. After simple calculations, it turned out that the guy had $886 thousand, or about 5 million kroner, in his hands. Having cashed a fifth of the amount, the man bought an apartment in a prestigious neighborhood of Oslo, and the rest of the amount was saved for the future. Thus, Christopher got the apartment for only $5. A wonderful story about shrewdness and, let's face it, a lot of luck!#BBW2023 #BNBecosystem #Stablecoins #BTC #Blur