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Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I mean, if you notice that you had and lost 700 millions you have to have a really strong mind to not go crazy. If it was me I think I would go crazy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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....

[–] [email protected] 44 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

It's a far cry from this guy's situation, but I think I had five or six bitcoin back when I was mining in the early days. I cashed out when they were maybe $40-50 each towards a new GPU.

Sure, I could go nuts thinking about what I would do with the money now, but if I hadn't sold at that rate, I probably would have sold at $100, or $200, or...

There's no way in hell I would have had the discipline to "hodl" to this point, so I just get on with my life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

yeah i lots dozens. and i have an SSD that died with the keys to 5 more. I'm not losing sleep over it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I had a few in my digital wallet that disappeared. I've looked for it for hours. oh well... when I last accessed it, the rate was probably less than $20 each, so I figured I lost a couple bucks... I would have sold them forever ago so no use thinking about what they're worth now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

I sold mine for about $1,000 each and never looked back. It was free money. I would have never held them past $2k, much less 100k

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, but if those Bitcoin were "out there somewhere", and you'd never have to think about money ever again if you found them...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

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