This guy stole BILLIONS, lived like a king for 10 years and got caught because he transferred $800

Jimmy Zhong stole $3.4 billion in Bitcoin and hid it inside a popcorn tin

In 2012, a 22 year old college kid found a bug in the Silk Road's withdrawal system

Deposit 500 Bitcoin, click withdraw 5 times fast, get 2,500 back

The system just kept paying out

Fake accounts
Same trick
Over and over until 50,000 BTC was gone

He told his friends the coins came from mining in the early days

Nobody questioned it

Bought a lakehouse in Georgia and filled it with boats, jet skis, and a stripper pole

Private jets
Coke

Almost a decade living like a king and nobody could trace a single coin

Then someone broke into his house and stole 150 BTC

This man called the police on his own stolen Bitcoin

That police report connected him to the IRS

Then he moved $800 through an exchange that required ID

Blockchain analysts traced that $800 back to the original Silk Road wallets

When the feds raided his house they found a computer hidden inside a popcorn tin stuffed under blankets in a bathroom closet

That computer held $3.4 billion in Bitcoin

Under the concrete floor they found a buried safe with cash, gold bars, and physical Bitcoin from 2012

The sentence was ONLY 1 year and 1 day

$3.4 billion in a popcorn tin

Caught because of an $800 transfit #BitcoinBouncesBack $BTC $SOL $USDC