In an sectional interview with Cointelegraph during Virtual Blockchain Week, crypto pioneer and founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, Charlie Shrem, revealed new information surrounding a mysterious letter he received in 2022.

In 2022, Charlie Shrem co-founded BitInstant. The company would emerge every bit one of the few Bitcoin (BTC) exchanges to gain traction during the infancy of cryptocurrency — raising $ane.5 million in a fundraising round led by Winklevoss Capital letter Direction.

In Jan 2022, Shrem was arrested on suspicions of conspiring to launder $1 million, and was sentenced to two years in prison house in Dec 2022 after pleading guilty to the reduced charge of aiding and abetting unlicensed money transmission.

Shrem receives letter from 'Marcel Mellish' in 2022

In May 2022, Shrem received a mysterious alphabetic character from someone named 'Marcel Mellish'. The alphabetic character was afterward published on Two-Bit-Idiot's blog.

Shrem wrote that some of the individuals he shared the letter with had "suggested an underlying message, mayhap a private key, or someone reaching out."

The alphabetic character appears to erratically use intentionally misspelled Yiddish words, and features quirks in its writing conventions and formatting. The letter was also printed on yellow paper — which Charlie believed was employed to evade automated letter of the alphabet scanning systems.

Marcel Mellish writes to eatery worker in 2022

When asked if there has been any update to the story of Marcel Mellish since 2022, Shrem revealed to Cointelegraph that he received a curious breadcrumb in the story back in Feb 2022.

"I got a weird email from someone completely unrelated [to] Bitcoin, a person who owns a eating house in like Chicago or something that said he got a letter from a Marcel Mellish also. And he emailed me the letter, and his letter — everything was the same, except the content was different."

"I remember waking up in the morning time and I got this east-mail, and the title was 'we likewise received a letter from Marcel Mellish," Shrem stated, earlier finding and reading the email aloud:

"It said, 'Hi Charlie, I hope yous're having a prissy day, my proper name is 'such and such'. I work at a restaurant in 'such and such'. I'm reaching out because we take a pretty bizarre letter in the mail today. A quick Google search of Marcel Mellish led me to the letter you received back in 2022.'"

"Mine was printed on yellow paper, this one was printed on majestic, and this alphabetic character was odd, it was weird," Shrem recounts.

"And and then I emailed back, and I didn't get any response back, and I immediately responded and it said that the email address is not real or something like that."