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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My favorite part of these articles is that the total value he lost keeps getting updated to reflect the current price of bitcoin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Like the bitcoin pizza

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I was once paid in bitcoin. It was like 1 bitcoin worth about $20. There was nothing to spend it on. I lost track of it. Now that coin would be worth about $100,000. Crazy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I used to have a little BTC back when faucets were still a thing. Managed to make a decent trade later on but nothing groundbreaking.

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

I paid a bitcoin for a pizza once

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Just one for a whole pizza?
That's pretty much a bargain in bitcoin history

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If I had a dollar for every time I heard a story like that I'd have a bitcoin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I have four whole bitcoins from when you could sign up for sites that just gave them out. That wallet has been missing for the better part of a decade. 🫠

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought I clicked the original CNN article, but I got the AOL copy instead. Not that it matters. It's still the same one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was amused that AOL is still a thing :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Indeed, it is. My original email is still there, too. xD

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Well it is both funny and depressing to follow someones descent into madness.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Make it a TV show where contestants rummage through trash and one pretends to find the BC so the man who lost it gets his hopes up just to find out it was a ruse. 12 seasons, 9 episodes each.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Terrible purchase. Already out $800 mil and a dump doesn't make that much money or Elon Musk would own one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Musk wouldn’t just own one, he’d claim he invented them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I saw one like this where a guy hired a hacker to get into his encrypted wallet device because he was sure it had like $100k in it. Guy broke in, pulled up the Bitcoin wallet and... It was empty. Dude had forgotten that he sold all his Bitcoin YEARS ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Man he must be so sure it's there