Jack Laurence

I found him on, I think, Facebook or whatever it was we were using at the time.

And so he sent me whatever the value.

I think he sent me 600 euros of Bitcoin at the value of 2015.

So I think it's around one Bitcoin, maybe a bit more.

So Bitcoin by now is a household name.

Everyone has heard of it, but almost as many people still have no idea what it's all about.

Other than it's an apparent digital currency that has made certain people extremely wealthy.

Bitcoin first hit the internet around 2008 when the domain name bitcoin.org was registered, apparently created by a person or persons who used the name Satoshi Nakamoto.

Now, before you start panicking and thinking I'm about to do a big deep dive and trying to explain cryptocurrency and blockchains, it's not happening here.

But as we all know, during the peak madness of the world of COVID in 2021, Bitcoin skyrocketed.

In fact, it hit a value of $66,975 for just one Bitcoin.

Story after story emerged of people becoming instant multimillionaires.

Sad stories of people who'd lost their passwords to their wallets to unlock incredible fortunes.

more and more coins began to emerge, with people all around the world, yours truly included, buying into the hype and hoping to become the next crypto millionaire.

However, before all this madness, Chris, with his wallet of just over one Bitcoin, at the time, not knowing anything about it, was just trying to work out how to get rid of it.

But little did he know that this odd little Bitcoin that he's been lumped with would end up becoming a big part of his life in the future.

I'm sat there and I'm looking, I'm like, how can I cash this Bitcoin rubbish out?

I need, you know, I need the cash.

I couldn't figure out how to do it, to be honest.

So I just thought, oh, well, I'll just leave it here.