It's a normal day, your scrolling through your browser on a computer, and you hear a large bang on your ceiling. You are afraid and you decide to check it out for yourself but you see nothing. You say to yourself "I need to clean this place up."
You carry things down and you see a lot of printed paper from old years. Now you try to get rid of them, you light a fire, carry some of the papers, and start burning them. You some old magazines and start reading them, to your surprise you found what looks to be a BTC private key from 2011.
This is when things start getting interesting, you quickly say to your self "if it's working then am gonna be a Bitcoin Millionaire" you try not to tell anyone because this is a big deal. You now put in your pocket, and later scan the QR code from 2011. You try several times but it's not working. It seems like it has aged so long and it started fading.
You say to your self "I won't lose hope yet." you now begin to type the private key, trying to log in but nothing is working at all.
In case you don't know a private key is a cryptocurrency secret key that is mixed with numbers and alphabet. It's nearly impossible for anyone to guess.
Later you find out the 3 last digits of the private key have been cleaned off and what left is for you to throw away the paper or guess it. Now you're thinking about what should I do, you visit online discussion sites and tell everyone what you just found.
A few hours later comments start kicking in its left for you to guess it or if Bitcoin is stored in there it would be lost forever, yes I mean forever.
Few days after you found it you stored it in a secret place hoping no one would misplace it, you under pressure even without knowing how much is in the wallet. You say to your self, it seems like the private key accidentally added in a yard sale all those years.
Every night you take it as a duty to guess the private key 30-35 times daily and to your surprise you guessed it right on your computer. You are surprised as you see 110.10 BTC on your screen you quickly get up and say this can't be real, you refresh the page and it's looking very real!
You call your Mom or Your Dad and you can't even talk well on the phone it seems like you have won a lottery. You like I am not the owners of this Bitcoin, but how could you know. You call your mom and dad and explain everything to them, they tell you they did not invest in Bitcoin in the past.
You are very happy and say "founders keepers," but you are a bit skeptical if you should own if you try to see the past transactions and the first deposit on the wallet are from 2010, it seems like the owner of this wallet was very early to Bitcoin.
In 2011, 110 BTC was worth less than $1, this means it was worth less than $100 and it's now worth more than a million dollars.
You say to self keep it or spend it? You decide to sell some Bitcoin to your Bank account and help your parents with money and also charity.
You try your best to stay away from gambling because you know you're already richer than some online casinos. You now have the money to buy the things of your dream and invest in the future of other Cryptocurrency project, good thing you didn't burn the private key because all this shouldn't have happened.
A few days later you share your story on your YouTube channel the video goes viral and TV Shows are ready to interview you about what happened. You are now popular and rich congratulations.
The article was written to illustrate what could happen if you found an old private key with Bitcoin in it. It is something that could hardly happen but anyone that's able to find such is truly lucky.
Nice! This just inspired me, thanks....