@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 day agoMan who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the sitewww.tomshardware.commessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1333cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1333external-linkMan who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the sitewww.tomshardware.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 day agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-219 hours agoHe lost the coins in 2013 or before. The price was then $15 or even lower… If he just bought 100 BTC for only $1.5k in 2013, he’d now have 10 million dollars…
minus-squareshastaxclinkfedilinkEnglish2•3 hours agoIf my math is right then he would have had to have $117k in bitcoin at that time to have $780m now. That is a lot of money to lose even back then.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•10 hours agoIt’s a needle in a haystack, but that’s a really valuable needle. It might actually be worth it.
He lost the coins in 2013 or before. The price was then $15 or even lower…
If he just bought 100 BTC for only $1.5k in 2013, he’d now have 10 million dollars…
If my math is right then he would have had to have $117k in bitcoin at that time to have $780m now. That is a lot of money to lose even back then.
It’s a needle in a haystack, but that’s a really valuable needle. It might actually be worth it.