@TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months 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-square81fedilinkarrow-up1373arrow-down112cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1361arrow-down1external-linkMan who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the sitewww.tomshardware.com@TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square81fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-square@lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglish14•edit-22 months 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-squareshastaxclinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months 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@dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoIt’s a needle in a haystack, but that’s a really valuable needle. It might actually be worth it.
minus-square@fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months 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?
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.
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?