Wanted to give you all a bit of an update – the initial post got a lot more of a reaction than I anticipated! A bit of context, I wasn’t close at all to my Dad, especially towards the end. He committed suicide, which came as a shock to us all. We searched through his stuff in more detail and managed to find the password to his veracrypt usb. What it contained was a little shocking – pages and pages of psychotic ramblings about hacking into the bitcoin blockchain and holes in bitcoin encryption that no one had noticed.

I suspect he was slowly falling into a kind of paranoid scizophrenic break. He had a couple of public addresses but none of them ever had a significant amount of bitcoin. I think he was likely delusional when talking to us about the bitcoin that he had. I guess in retrospect that explains the lack of any significant financial planning.

I wanted to say a massive thank you to the community and everyone who offered to help out. The password was more than 20 characters with a custom PIM – pretty much uncrackable, but I really appreciated the support. It would have obviously been amazing to have that kind of money, but to be honest, it feels good to have some closure and be able to grieve properly.

Edit: will be deleting this account as was always intended to be a throwaway, but I will leave the post up and I have dm’d everyone who helped out. Thank you all again so much for everything.