The wild adventures of a father-son duo that go searching for stuck bitcoin - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
Charlie (left) and Chris (right) Brooks as they hop on a plane to Georgia. “We hopped back in their truck. Drove another hour deeper into Georgia,” says Chris. “We pull up at this strip mall because one of them owns a strip mall. They just start handing us notebooks with seed phrases on them.” Charlie adds that there were around 20 to 30 notebooks and that the guys just kept watching over what they were doing. The duo spent around 10 hours pouring through them, looking at every private key and seed phrase on them. After spending the day there, they managed to unlock just $10 of bitcoin. It was a total disaster. Charlie explains that the men had portfolio trackers set to these wallets containing large amounts of cryptocurrency and that they were convinced they had the private keys to them. He estimates that they had been sold these addresses on the premise that they controlled the funds. In other words, they had been scammed. As for the $3,000 a week they were supposedly able to withdraw, that was a bald-faced lie, according to Charlie. “It was a few plane tickets down the drain and a day wasted,” says Charlie. “They were really sweet guys