The biggest piracy website in the world accidentally became a Bitcoin millionaire.

Yes. The Pirate Bay.

The site every government tried to kill.

Raids. Blocks. Lawsuits. Arrests.

And somehow it kept popping back up like:

“lol nice try.”

In 2007, they even tried to buy their own country so they could run the site from international waters.

Iconic. Insane. Extremely Pirate Bay.

They didn’t raise enough.

But then in April 2013, they quietly added a Bitcoin address to the footer.

No announcement.

No influencer campaign.

No “smash that donate button.”

Just a lonely little ₿ address sitting there like buried treasure.

Within 24 hours, 73 strangers sent them 5.56 BTC.

Back then, that was about $700.

Today?

That same 5.56 BTC would be worth over $400,000.

And over the years, people sent them more than 135 BTC total.

So the world’s most pirated website accidentally built a Bitcoin stack worth around $10 million today.

All from a footer link.

Pirates understood Bitcoin before half of Wall Street did.