TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoMan who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the sitewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1365arrow-down111cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1354arrow-down1external-linkMan who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the sitewww.tomshardware.comTheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square77fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squarelemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 day 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-squarefine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoYeah. I mean I didn’t buy $15 in bitcoin 15 years ago (have never bought any, never will), and I’m not obsessed about it. Is it really any different for this guy?
minus-squareshastaxc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·18 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-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day 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…
Yeah.
I mean I didn’t buy $15 in bitcoin 15 years ago (have never bought any, never will), and I’m not obsessed about it.
Is it really any different for this guy?
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.