The history of Bitcoin

This story begins one afternoon back in 2001. Juggling between raising an infant child, attending college, and working most weekends I found myself with a day off to fall clean my home. As I went to clean out the drawers in my computer desk I noticed a CD I got in the mail for an online Casino. They were offering $1,000 free to try their games and awarded the proceeds after you spent the initial $1,000. So, I decided why not I had nothing to lose.

I registered an account and begin playing some games and did very well. At one point I had just over $3,800. I was not sure exactly how long it would take to go through the first $1000, but I knew I was up nearly triple. Unfortunately, I fell asleep with my bet on automatic re-spin and when I woke up the following morning my balance showed only $1.09 remaining. So, I learnt a lesson but still felt compelled to win something as I had done very well the day before.

So, I took an offer they had for first time deposits for a 100% deposit match. I decided to put in $20 from a prepaid Mastercard I had received as a gift. So in total I had $40 in total to play with.

I played a few games betting $0.25 each spin and ended up winning a bonus round game that landed me $185. Likewise, I got excited, and then I increased my bets to $1.00. I played for several rounds at this amount and still had about the same as I started with. Then I increased my bet to $2 and on the very first spin I accidentally clicked my mouse twice causing the reels to stop instantly and realized I had won a jackpot of $1,000,000.

I was in shock as I spun the reels one more time before proceeding to cash out. The casino customer support agent then notified me that I had to wager 10 times the amount they had given me as a bonus first, before I could cash out, and I still had $77 remaining to play through first, so I went back played various games for several hours and ended up cashing out at $980,000.

Now, the only options I could use to withdraw the funds were through Paysafe, NetEnt, Moneybookers, and EuroPayz because my prepaid credit card would not allow such a high amount to be put on to it. So, I created a Moneybookers digital wallet account and had the funds sent to it. Because I did not reside in the Malta or European countries they were not set up to deposit the funds to Canadian bank account, and they would not mail me a cheque, so I got angry, I told the casino and Moneybookers off, called them crooks and demanded they at least refund my $20 back because I couldn't purchase anything online or elsewhere with the funds I now had in this digital wallet.

The same year that I won the money I suffered a near fatal blow to the head and needed reconstructive face surgery. I was also dealing with stage 4 cancer for quite some time after. I have spent a lot of time moving around and caring for my 2 sons as a single mother. So I completely forgot about these winnings until I heard about Bitcoin being on the global stock market.

When I saw the logo for Bitcoin I remembered the coins in the digital wallet I had created many years ago had the exact same symbol that preceding the dollar amount in my account. I heard each was worth some $7000 at the time so I contacted two men I found on the internet named Craig and Nick whom stated they were the creators of Bitcoin to see if my funds from nearly 20 years ago could be used now the same way.

Not long after my email accounts were hacked and I no longer have access to them because I provided these individual's with a list of possible passwords and email accounts along with all of my personal information. Even a copy of my driver's license. And after that I heard nothing back at all so it seems they used my info to gain only for themselves.

Now it so happens, Moneybookers decided to change their operating name to Skrill around the same time as I last had access to these coins in 2011. I can not pass the verification process with them due to being unable to access my former email accounts to obtain the password reset. It also doesn't help that I can not remember my former phone number to verify my identity.

So as far as the $980,000 in crypto currency goes I am Satoshi Nakamato. Where it is now and weather it was done by a a single person or group of computer engineers with experience in coding and scripts I do not know. All I do know is they don’t want to be identified because they stole it and i just want to say to those responsible for this that I will get to the bottom of this before the 20 year timeline to pursue legal action against the entity responsible for misappropriating the funds that is for sure.