He had it all. Then he lost everything — not in a crash, but with a knock at the door.

Chris Larson (not to be confused with the Ripple co-founder) was just another early Bitcoiner.

In 2011, he bought a few hundred $BTC on a whim — tech curiosity, nothing serious. He forgot about it for years.

By 2017, the price was exploding.

He checked his old wallet: 354 BTC.

More than $7 million at the time.

He didn’t tell anyone. He moved to a quiet suburb near Oslo, Norway. He drove a used #Toyota . Never flaunted a thing.

But someone noticed. Maybe a slip in a conversation. Maybe a shared IP.

Whatever it was… one night, there was a knock.

A man in a ski mask forced his way in.

Tied Chris to a chair.

Put a knife to his throat.

“Transfer the Bitcoin, or I start cutting.”🔪🩸🩸

It wasn’t digital loss. It was primal, physical, terrifying.

Chris obeyed. He sent all 354 BTC.

The attacker vanished before police could arrive.🚔

The coins were laundered within hours through mixers.

Gone. Forever.🪙

Chris survived, but he never logged in again.

He now lives abroad, under a different name. He won’t talk to press.

He says the worst part isn’t the money.

It’s that crypto was supposed to set him free — not make him a target.

He played it safe.

He didn’t brag.

He didn’t leverage or #YOLO into memecoins.

And still — he lost it all.

Some say it’s a cautionary tale.

Others say it’s the price of being early.

But deep down, everyone feels the same thing:

How close we all are to being him.

A billion $PEPE and $XRP away.