How One Phone Call Ended a 3.5 Billion Dollar Empire

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Party boy by day and crypto thief by night, Jimmy Zhong stole $3.5 billion worth of Bitcoin! He stole 50,000 bitcoins from an illegal dark web marketplace, called Silk Road in 2012.

But over the years, the bitcoin value skyrocketed and Jimmy became a billionaire thief! He spent years living lavishly, but one slip exposed his secret when he called 911 to report a theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency. This led to the climax of almost a decade-long manhunt! Feds seized a record haul, leaving a billion-dollar ghost in the cyber shadows.

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