Popis
I remember thinking to myself, "I've got this on lockdown."
until I didn't!
I, the person who wakes up at 5 AM every day to go to the gym, prep my meals like a machine, and track every last calorie, thought that discipline was my superpower. I just happened to forget to use that same strictness when it came to my Bitcoin security. And lost almost everything.
I had diligently built up a $220,000 Bitcoin portfolio over the years. It was to be my "early retirement and gym-owning" money. But I did something silly, I had it parked on a legacy exchange. I was aware that the platform was no longer as solid as it was before, but I thought that it would see me through a little while longer. That was until I woke up one morning, after leg day, and found the website plastered with a "Permanently Closed" sign. My stomach dropped quicker than a failed bench press.
Bounced emails. No help. Internet forums were riddled with horror stories. I was enraged, humiliated, and at my wit's end. Desperate, I vented on a fitness board, between recipes for protein shakes and squat technique. That is when another weightlifter posted a link to Salvage Asset Recovery and said, "These guys don't skip leg day."
I was skeptical. How do you ever get money back from a defaulted, failing exchange? But I had nothing to lose, except, uh, $220,000, so I called.
Right from the first call, they were like personal trainers, only instead of fitness, it was crypto recovery. No beating around the bush. Just a reassuring "We've seen worse. We'll do this." They plunged into the legal thicket of insolvency petitions, followed the liquidators of the platform, and identified loopholes in the process that other people had missed.
Every day, they kept me updated, sometimes with news, sometimes with just "We are going through, hold on." They were like my toughest gym sessions, the ones you want to give up on but can see the end coming into view.
Three tough weeks went by and I got the call. My funds had been
