Florida Man Loses $354M Bitcoin Fortune After Lying to Feds; Hard Drive Destroyed

A Florida man’s long battle to recover what he claimed was a $354 million Bitcoin fortune has ended in failure after a federal appeals court ruled that he waited too long to come forward and that the hard drive holding his alleged crypto keys had already been ￰0￱ a decision published Tuesday, the ￰1￱ of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected the appeal of Michael Prime, who was seeking the return of an orange external hard drive seized during his 2019 arrest for counterfeiting and identity theft.) to recover the hard drive, claiming it contained cryptographic keys to roughly 3,443 Bitcoin, worth over $345 million at current prices.