💥 The Incredible Story of How He Lost 99,000 BTC — Now Worth $11 Billion

Back in 2010, a Chinese teenager named Wei Zhang put just $10 into a weird new thing called Bitcoin. It was worth less than a penny. That $10 got him tens of thousands of coins.

Fast forward a few years — Bitcoin exploded. Wei turned into a millionaire before he turned 20. But he didn’t stop there. In 2014, at just 19 years old, he launched CryptoLeap, the world’s first crypto margin trading platform. It took off fast. Traders loved it. Wei became a giant in the crypto world — holding 99,000 BTC by 2017.

Then came the disaster.

In 2018, he got an email from a fake venture capital firm. It looked real. Sounded real. But it was a phishing scam. One click — and hackers took over CryptoLeap. They drained all 99,000 BTC from the exchange. Gone. Just like that.

The news hit hard. Markets shook. Lawsuits followed. Wei was forced to shut everything down.

Today, those stolen coins would be worth over $11 billion.

But here’s the twist — Wei didn’t disappear. He came back to the tech world, this time focused on cybersecurity. He now mentors young developers and warns them: “Never let success make you careless.”

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