Help Mark Bolzern Rebuild After Stroke and Theft

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Help Mark Bolzern Rebuild After Stroke and Theft

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Hi, My name is Mark Bolzern, and you can read a history of me at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bolzern
But recently there has been a major problem in my life, details follow:

On the morning of my 64th birthday I woke up completely paralyzed. Fortunately the night before I had taken a friend named Mikel up on sleeping in the Airbed he had in the living room of his Condo. When I could not remove my blankets, or get out of bed in the morning, I made noise, so Mikel came and got me out of bed, and helped me to the toilet. Then he headed off to a liver biopsy appointment he had pre-scheduled.

Half way there he remembered leaving me sitting on the toilet, so he called ahead and cancelled his appointment, then came back and helped me back off the toilet. He and I decided I must have had a stroke before I woke up.

So Mikel took me to the Providence hospital Emergency room. As soon as we arrived at the emergency room, and they heard the word "Stroke", and placed me first in line of the people waiting there. They placed me on a rolling stretcher and took me upstairs to a room in the Hospital where I then stayed for about 14 days, and learned to use my hands again to dial the telephone and order meals from the cafeteria. This was the best hospital food I ever had. After the 14 days, they transferred me to the St Elias physical therapy center. At St Elias they taught me to walk again over the next two months.

When I was ready to check out of St Elias, Mikel did not show up when I needed to leave, because he missed his flight back from Long Island where he had gone while I was to be in the hospital.

So I called a different friend named Aldo to pick me up, and stayed at his place for a night. The next day Mikel came and got me from Aldo's place and drove me back to his Condo. I was supposed to stay with Mikel all winter. The next day I tagged along as Mikel did various errands around town. Then he asked me if I wanted sushi, and I said yes. So Mikel drove us most of the way to the Sushi place he had in mind.

But part of the way across the parking lot from the street, he stopped driving and started beating on me. After a while of that, people who noticed what was going on in the car, called the police. Then a knife came out of Mikel's pocket, whereupon I chose to get out of the car just as the police arrived. The Police arrested Mikel, parked his car, and then took him to jail. I was left to walk back to Mikel's Condo, which fortunately was only about 4 blocks away, and I had a key to the door.

So I walked back to Mikel's Condo, and stayed there for the night. But I moved out in the morning because I did not want to be there whenever Mikel returned, so I drove my car to a meeting of folks from the spiritual center I attend. They gathered every Friday at Organic Oasis, a restaurant close to Mikel's condo. When I joined the group at the meeting they started questioning me why I was so bruised up? So I told them about the occurrence with Mikel the prior evening.

One of the women who was at the meeting, named Salena asked me to come stay at her place, which I readily agreed to. Salena was also someone Mikel fancied as a potential girlfriend, while she was unconvinced.

The only place Salena had for me to sleep in her apartment was directly beneath the TV. The following morning both she and I filed restraining orders to keep Mikel away from us.

Salena's roommate became a mental case with his issue having to do with Covid concerns, and he progressively became worse and worse, so Salena kicked him out, and I rented his room for a couple months. In late December, Salena's son informed her that he was coming home from college, so she told me I would need to find another place to live before the end of January.

So I called Vanessa, a lady I grew up with as a child. Vanessa had purchased a house a few years back, and then later when her parents died, she also inherited their house. I asked if Vanessa had any rooms to rent? She said yes, in her parent's house, but there was not currently a functioning bathroom. Within a week she could get a shower working in one bathroom, and a toilet working in the other bathroom. Would that be Ok? I said yes, so I rented a room in Vanessa's parent's house. I was getting social security at the time, and applied for disability, which I received increasing my income. I also applied to the Pioneer Home, an elder assisted living home. The Pioneer home said they had a year's waiting list. So my deal with Vanessa was when the Pioneer home called, I would move there.

In the meantime a neighbor in the neighborhood where Vanessa's parent's home was, noticed the the house was now occupied and came over to introduce himself. We had a lengthy conversation during which he realized that I knew about Bitcoin and other CryptoCurrencies. So he asked me if I would teach him about Bitcoin, and other Cryptocurrencies, to which I agreed.

What I did not realize in my stroke originated daze, was that I could no longer ten-finger type at 80+ wpm as I previously could, instead I was hunting and pecking with two fingers. So he watched me more carefully than I realized, and he learned the password for my wallet.

One day when I took a break to go to the bathroom, he used my password to access my wallet and found my wallet's 12 word recovery phrase. He then went back home and used my recovery phrase to restore a backup copy of my wallet's contents onto his own computer and stole the 3/4 of a Million Dollars worth of Crypto I had on my wallet as my retirement savings. At the time Bitcoin was worth approximately $15,000 per coin. But NOW Bitcoin is worth about $100,000 per coin. So what was worth 3/4 of a million $ then is worth more like 4 Million $ NOW.

Then he disappeared. I assume he left the state to spend the money he had stolen from me.

I called the Police, and they asked, this has to do with computers? And I said yes. Then they asked how it relates to child pornography. I said it doesn't. They told me that Child Pornography was the only computer crime they would deal with, so I was out of luck! I asked whether the theft of 3/4 Million Dollars does not interest them, and they said no, go away, I was out of luck!

So he left me completely destitute. Then the Pioneer home called in late April and I moved there. I now live in the Pioneer home and they take ALL of my social security every month except for $300 which they allow me to live on.

The 19th of this past August, two years later I had my 66th Birthday, and my mind is working well again. So now my challenge is to rebuild my finances with no seed capital to work with.

Also I own a piece of property in Birchwood, that currently has a couple yurts, and a couple of trucks for storage on it, and I have not been able to pay the property tax on the property for the last two years, due to the the stroke, and the related medical bills, so the Municipality of Anchorage decided to place this property which I have owned since 1981, into foreclosure, and I desperately need $2000 to pay back the lien they have placed on it before the foreclosure becomes final this coming September and they seize my property, then sell it to whomever will pay them the amount of the Lien in exchange to the title for my property!

Peter's Creek flows across my property, and at one time I had built an 1800 square foot cabin on this property using trees off the property. But a tenant to whom I had rented the property was, unknown to me, running a marijuana grow operation in the downstairs of my Cabin, and the Alaska State Troopers noticed the heat signature from the grow lamps, and went out to check it out. That day my tenant had left three of his potted pot plants outside in the summer sun, and left. The police found the three plants and took them up the hill to my neighbor Mike's driveway to spread out the pot plants, and took pictures of them. They told Mike they were coming back the next morning with a warrant to get into the cabin.

Mike told my tenant when he came home, and that was the night my cabin burned down! Obviously my tenant had burned it down to conceal evidence of his grow operation, which would have meant an arrest, and jail time for him! It was years before I found out the true story... My tenant had told me that the Ground Rod had Frost Jacked up into the electrical box and cause a short that resulted in the fire! So I had no insurance on my Cabin, so I am also out my house that I built using my own two hands, with a chainsaw, a sledge hammer, and other tools!

So if you are feeling flush, and would like to donate to a good cause, I present myself humbly for your consideration, any amount small or large is greatly appreciated. If you cannot donate money, then prayers are appreciated AND also especially sharing the following LINK with everyone you know: https://gofund.me/48065009

If you would prefer to donate to me via CryptoCurrency instead, use the below wallet addresses:
Bitcoin: bc1qadmz50mlmy5p6c049fgjq5f45v3nyr9cu3lyuk
LiteCoin: LZwCswCqUfUCDF4htMzdrWJos9PprN6KT9
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Chainlink LINK on the Ethereum Network: 0xcB9e276510E196731657bDBc2c8a86A7E96AC35c
Aave on the Ethereum Network: 0xcB9e276510E196731657bDBc2c8a86A7E96AC35c
Algorand: VOHBEPHPPR7QRYVZOP3MTLLT4S4VLJCCO3SKTQGLGS7PAIRUYMKWOCHPIQ
Cosmos (ATOM): cosmos1mp70rvuthr40pcvgma7n6mu9pl3f90ecdnsd39
Polygon: 0xcB9e276510E196731657bDBc2c8a86A7E96AC35c
BitcoinBR on the BSC network:
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BitcoinCash: BCH: qzj2dam9c7k8t74w8hl9fsrgga5zj2zckvc7yqrzvd
Ethereum ETH: 0xcB9e276510E196731657bDBc2c8a86A7E96AC35c
Solana SOL: 3TFBpGLEttiM32WAm2MadYed15QDrnwaBhJb7ZzJ5bvn
BNB on the BSC network: 0xcB9e276510E196731657bDBc2c8a86A7E96AC35c
TRON TRX: TBA4YXunnknvkzFhkd6baTVMX9uRsHsFA9
Ripple XRP: r3p4WiBQTwpuTbZyxVgbqHjAZUC18vzcL4
Stellar XLM: GBI7H2OGHHIX6YFR567IVZDPJLBTA6MMROHZEESZ5SVPJ6F3XOHJG3RZ
If you need a wallet address that is not here, email mbolzernATgmail.com and ask me to add it!

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Mark Bolzern
Organizer
Anchorage, AK

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