British investor Chris has recovered 61 Bitcoin more than a decade after losing access to the coins when early U.K. exchange Intersango became inaccessible. He bought the holding for £1,500 through Britcoin, later incorporated as Intersango Ltd, in December 2011, when Bitcoin cost about £2.94. CEL Solicitors traced a wallet linked to the defunct platform and negotiated the return of the coins on May 28, 2026, valuing them at £3,331,618, or approximately $3.86 million, at that time. Other reporting has put the same recovery at roughly £3.3 million ($4.4 million) or about $4.47 million, reflecting different valuation timings. The firm said the wallet still contained more than 5,500 Bitcoin believed to belong to former Intersango users, but no broader distribution has been completed. Chris plans to sell part of the holding to buy a larger home that can accommodate his mother-in-law while keeping some of the fortune in crypto. The recovery contrasts with James Howells’s unsuccessful effort to access Bitcoin believed to be stored on a hard drive buried in a Welsh landfill.