Crypto user recovers long-lost private keys to access $4M in Bitcoin

A student has claimed to have found private keys accidentally HODLed starting as early as 2011 which will unlock more than $4 million in .

According to a throwaway account from BitcoinHolderThankU, the Reddit user was able to cash out roughly $4.2 million in Bitcoin (BTC) after finding the lost keys to 127 BTC on Dec. 22, when the price of the crypto asset was in the $23,000s. They later liquidated the coins in the middle of the bull run.

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