I'm not buying it. There are far too many "unfortunate events" to be realistic. Besides, you couldn't easily make a paper back up in Bitcoin's early days.
We see stories like this every month here.
Not sure why someone would make it up..
I don't know, you tell me!
I'm not going to waste time arguing about it.
You just did.
The reason it has been such a pain to get this recovered and taken so much time is reactions like yours when it could have been a simple process.
Sure, blame me for your own mistakes.
That, and it was easy to make a paper backup back then. It was just a matter of writing down or printing a number of characters. An average English word is about 5 characters in length, so if you make a 12-word backup phrase, you're going to write out or somehow save 60 characters.
There you go again, making things up. There were no 12 word seed phrases "way at the beginning".
Come on, how serious are you? No details provided by you mostly at all, btw.
OP goes on Ignore. My best guess is he's hoping to earn Merit.