At bitcoin’s peak, in December 2017, my coins were worth £1.5m. My bitcoins were among those taken five years ago in a £300m hack of a bitcoin exchange. At the time it was the world’s largest heist, eclipsing even the Hatton Garden jewellery robbery. Unlike gemstones, though, bitcoins are supposedly traceable. The trail left by the thief has led me on a rollercoaster ride through cycles of hope and despair that mirror the peaks and troughs of…
Source: The Times January 13, 2019 00:13 UTC