The Globe and Mail Charlotte Phillips Published March 4, 2021 Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Illustration by Adam De Souza The news item said that German prosecutors had confiscated €50-million worth of Bitcoin from a fraudster but they couldn’t unlock the money without the password. The fraudster served his jail sentence without giving up the code. I wondered, did they try torturing him with a middle-aged mom like me, repeatedly asking “what the hell is Bitcoin, anyway?” And did those German prosecutors try typing in Scruffy1234? Or Mitsy1963?