Irish drug dealer loses £46m bitcoin codes he hid in fishing rod case
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from on (#4ZP50)
Clifton Collins fears fishing gear was taken to dump by his landlord after he was jailed
In early 2017 Clifton Collins, an Irish drug dealer, had a dilemma: where to hide the codes of his illicit a55m (46m) bitcoin fortune.
His solution was to print them on to an A4 piece of paper and stash it in the aluminium cap of a fishing rod case kept at his rented home in Farnaught, Cornamona, County Galway. It seemed a good idea at the time.
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