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In 1947, during the so-called Roswell incident, the father of two-year-old Homer Jay, a farmer from New Mexico, stumbled upon strange debris in the middle of a field. While the military was making its way to the farm, little Homer secretly touched one of the fragments — the material was still warm and... completely “unfamiliar” to the touch. The US military initially reported the crash of a “flying saucer,” although they later explained it as a common weather balloon. So, it all started long before the world learned the word “blockchain.”
Many years passed. Homer Jay grew up smooth, bald, and surprisingly indifferent to anything that required any mental effort on his part. He married Marge Bouvier, a disciplined, athletic, patient woman who was the complete opposite of Homer. Together, they raised the mischievous Bart, the brilliant and principled Lisa, and the youngest, Margaret. The mischievous Bart dreamed of getting rich and opening his own crypto account, but for now he was working part-time at his uncle Herbert's office equipment store, installing programs on customers' computers.
One day, while rummaging around in the attic, Bart found an old system unit. It looked like an ancient relic. Bart, not really believing in miracles, connected it to a monitor and pressed the power button. The computer hummed as if waking up from a long sleep, and folders appeared on the screen, strange files with names and links.
Looking through the files, he came across a library of home recordings made many years ago. In them, still alive, were Aunt Gladys Bouvier, Abby Simpson, and Mona Jay, who once loved variety shows, performed at the city theater, and celebrated each premiere loudly. The parties were organized by Herbert “Herb” Powell, who filmed everything on camera. That's how this archive of home retro videos came to be.
In one of the files, Bart came across a short explanatory note. It said that cryptocurrency does not exist in physical form. It is stored as records in a blockchain, a distributed digital ledger. Access to these records is provided by private keys, which can be stored on various types of crypto wallets. A seed phrase was mentioned separately — a set of 12–24 words that can restore access even after many years.
And then Bart understood everything. He was not surprised, because he knew his father's luck well. Once, without really understanding what he was doing, Homer bought 20 bitcoins and kept access to them on the exchange, and then... simply forgot about them. Exchange storage is considered risky, but this time it was a blessing for Homer Jay and his family. The system unit turned out to be an old desktop wallet with a saved private key and seed phrase hidden among other files.
