the client He was holding a destroyed pen drive, with the USB plug ripped out and the tracks completely compromised. By my calculations, it was already a lost cause. I refused at first, explaining that I didn't do that kind of repair.

— I'll pay $100, I just need you to recover the data. — He insisted.

"$100 for something I had already dismissed as impossible?" I thought. I decided to accept the challenge, even if it was just out of curiosity. I took the pen drive and started improvising. I spent hours trying to solder wires directly to the damaged points. Had the client paid all that for something so old? A few days later, I heard a local news story: "A fortune in Bitcoin was redeemed for a recovered pen drive." My heart froze.

I wonder what was really inside that flash drive.