This guy stole BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, 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 student found a bug in Silk Road's withdrawal system.
Deposit 500 Bitcoin, click withdraw 5 times quickly and get 2500 back
The system just kept paying
Fake accounts
Same trick
Over and over until 50,000 BTC ran out
He told his friends the coins came from early mining.
Nobody questioned it
Bought a house next to a lake in Georgia and filled it with boats, jet skis and a strip club bar.
Private jets
Cocaine
Almost a decade living like a king and no one could trace a single coin
Then someone broke into his house and stole 150 BTC.
This man called the police about 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 those $800 back to the original Silk Road wallets
When feds raided his house, they found a computer hidden inside a popcorn tin under blankets in a bathroom closet.
That computer contained $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 over an $800 transfer