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Historically, patrons have always supported culture and science. Modern patrons can direct their funds to support environmental and zoological projects that protect animals, such as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) or local shelters. Such organizations often have partners who make significant contributions, including cryptocurrency.
For example, a businessman from Sydney, known for his great love of animals, once received an ostrich as a gift. The bird was raised by a distant relative of the entrepreneur, a farmer from the Alice Springs area. He insisted, “It will bring you luck because it has the eyes of an old friend.”
When the entrepreneur transported the bird to his ranch and released it from his pickup truck, it settled near the house, under a carport. The ostrich was curious about everything. It slowly explored the area around the house, the bushes, and even the porch. One evening, when the happy owner dozed off in his chair, a small device fell out of his pocket — a cold crypto wallet. Inside was access to eleven bitcoins, an amount that could change anyone's life in Australia.
At first, no one noticed anything. But three days later, the entrepreneur discovered the loss and began to search for it. Suddenly, the ostrich disappeared. The businessman rushed to the police: “My crypto wallet with eleven bitcoins is missing! And the ostrich is gone!”
The police just shrugged their shoulders, but they started an investigation. The cops checked the surveillance cameras, interviewed neighbors and witnesses who saw the ostrich walking along the road, dodging cars and dogs.
Time passed, and the police were skeptical: neither the ostrich nor the wallet were found.
A few weeks later, on a farm near Alice Springs, a farmer woke up to the sound of dogs barking in the yard. There stood a familiar ostrich, a little exhausted but alive. “Unbelievable. Did the ostrich really travel so many miles and find its way to the ranch on its own?” he thought. He called the businessman and told him the news.
A month passed. And then something unexpected happened. While cleaning the yard, the farmer came across a strange object among the sand and stones. It was the same crypto wallet. It was a little scratched, but relatively intact.
When the device was connected to a laptop, it came to life. All eleven bitcoins were there. The businessman breathed a sigh of relief and paid the farmer a generous reward—thirty-five thousand dollars in cryptocurrency.
It turned out that the ostrich, once again exploring the porch out of natural curiosity, had pecked at it and swallowed it. And later, after going through the natural cycle in the ostrich's stomach, the wallet “returned” to the outside world.
The newspapers presented the story as a curiosity, but for the police, it remained a case with a touch of detective work. After all, for a whole month, no one knew where the wallet with the cryptocurrency had gone, and everyone had a motive to take it. But the truth turned out to be simpler.