so this guy his name's Jimmy and Jimmy has a problem he's super lonely but all that's about to change because he's about to be worth $3 billion now Jimmy he's 22 years old he's a college student in Georgia studying computer science he's also just kind of an awkward dude he's never really been a popular guy and he really wants friends and one day things start to change for him because he gets a involved early on in developing Bitcoin and at some point he obtains some of it and he stores it on this new dark web
Marketplace called Silk Road a few years later in 2012 he goes to the Silk Road site to withdraw all of his Bitcoin and that is when something crazy happens he accidentally doubleclicks the withdrawal button and suddenly bam he gets back twice the amount he was trying to withdraw it seems to be some sort of glitch that gives him double his money back so Jimmy's looking at this like fing jackpot and he decides to exploit this glitch hard and over the next few days he creates multiple accounts and deposits more Bitcoin tokens and quickly withdraws them
using this double click method so he's basically just doubling his money over and over again and pretty quickly he steals more than 50,000 Bitcoin which at this time in 2012 is worth around $600,000 $600,000 is a lot of money to anyone much less a college student like Jimmy and now for the first time in his life he's got some money and he's going to try to use it to make some friends and so he starts going out to local bars buying shots for everyone he's renting nice hotel rooms shopping at Gucci he's suddenly driving a
Tesla then he goes and buys a new house out on the lake and here's some actual pictures of his house and this house has a bar in it and it's stocked with alcohol and it even has a stripper pole a stripper pole and suddenly wouldn't you know it everyone wants to hang out with Jimmy now he's a popular guy and so he starts throwing these crazy parties for everyone uh here he is partying with two women here he is partying with two other women and so after all this time old Jimmy finally has some friends
and this new lifestyle of his continues for years and you would think he would like run out of money spending it like this but no because as the years go by the value of crypto skyrockets and so the of his coin keeps going up and up and by 2018 his stash is worth around an estimated $200 million $200 million fing dollars and Jimmy he wants to keep his friends around so he doesn't mind sharing the wealth with them like one time he takes them all on a private jet to fly to watch a college football
game and he pays for all of it and here's a picture of him and his friends at the game he even gives each friend $10,000 to go on a shopping spree in Beverly Hills $110,000 a friend and apparently he wants to impress people so bad that he keeps a suitcase full of cash in his room and he'll like show it to the women that he parties with hoping that they'll like him and be his girlfriend of course none of them do now obviously his friends know that he has money and they definitely ask him about
it but he doesn't tell them that he stole it no no he tells them that he's a successful crypto investor and so that's just what they believe but whatever he has money he's surrounded by people who like him and none of them would ever screw him over until one day Jimmy leaves on a trip and while he's gone someone it's presumed to be one of his friends someone breaks into his house and this is actually surveillance footage of that Breakin then sometime later Jimmy gets home and he discovers that he'd been robbed and this burglar
took $400,000 cash and 150 Bitcoin because I guess he had physical versions of his Bitcoin and they knew it was there and they stole it and so he calls the police to come investigate but it's a burglary so police don't really do anything and the case ends up going cold but old Jimmy he isn't going to let this go and so he hires a local private investigator to look into it and so she starts investigating and she immediately gets suspicious of Jimm's friends and she starts lowkey following them around stalking their socials and conducting back
ground checks on them until she finally feels like she's figured out which one of them broke into his house and ripped him off but apparently when she tells Jimmy Jimmy doesn't believe her I mean he trusts his friends too much he doesn't want to give them up and so he and the private investigator they decide to go their separate ways and his burglary case remains open meanwhile the IRS criminal investigation unit they've been investigating a hack on the Silk Road not Jimmy's glitch Bitcoin Heist from all those years ago but a completely different hack and
during that investigation they also happened to notice that back in 2012 50,000 Bitcoin were taken by someone some unknown person they don't know who so they start investigating this and following this Trail and they can see transactions that lead back to an exchange but they don't know whose account it is but then Jimmy transfers around $800 wor a Bitcoin to that Exchange it requires him to enter his name and his address so now the IRS criminal investigation unit knows that the 2012 Bitcoin Thief is Jimmy and now they're going to go after him and so
boom they put together a little sting operation and one day these agents suddenly show up to Jimmy's house sort of undercover and they pretend they're investigating the burglary where his Bitcoin and cash were stolen and since that burglary investigation was never closed it makes sense to Jimmy why they're still in investigating it and so Jimmy invites these agents into his place and he's super nice to them and he seems to love that they're there because remember he really wants friends you guys get this solved I'm going to invite youall up for a beer whenever youall
want all right and so he's totally just chilling with these agents like they're his boys he even tells them how he used to keep a suitcase full of cash around and that he'd show it to women hoping to get laid you knowbly this girl then did it work nope oh that never does never does and the Agents they just keep Charming him pretending to be his friend and he brings them down to his basement he shows them his bar and his stripper pole is this your workout nope that's for the girls okay nice now these
agents they have to have a sense that Jimmy is a lonely guy because they keep talking to him and they keep Charming him and finally they get him on the topic of Bitcoin and they're like asking him to explain it they're asking him how long he's been involved in it and he ends up opening up his laptop and showing them one of his crypto wallets filled with a sh ton of Bitcoin like 60 or 70 million worth and Visually seeing this wallet with their own eyes ends up being all the evidence these agents need and
so they leave and later they come back with a search warrant and boom they bust in and raid his house and eventually bam they arrest him here's his mug shot it was one of the biggest mysteries in crypto who stole 50,000 Bitcoins which would would ultimately be worth more than $3 billion yeah at the time of Jimmy's arrest his Bitcoin was worth [Music] $3.4 billion oh my God but at the end of it all he cooperates with police he forfeits all of his Bitcoin he takes a plea deal and ultimately he's sentenced to about 1
year in prison now this is just a guess but I'm willing to bet that none of those friends he was partying with the ones he gave $10,000 to go shopping I'm willing to bet that none of them went to visit him in prison and that none of them are around now now that he's not worth $3 billion or whatever that's just a guess
