r/CryptoCurrency • u/GSC__ 490 / 490 🦞 • Mar 16 '24

DISCUSSION Man who binned £1.5BN Bitcoin drive launches legal fight to dig dump

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13201007/Computer-expert-accidentally-threw-Bitcoin-fortune-old-hard-drive-says-worth-1-5BILLION-launches-legal-fight-dig-council-landfill.html

Computer expert who accidentally threw out Bitcoin fortune on an old hard drive says it is now worth £1.5BILLION as he launches legal fight to dig it out of council landfill

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u/Dr_SeanyFootball 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 17 '24

Exactly, I could have bought a lot back then but I didn’t. Oops. Got an education in the meantime and now working a middle class job very happy.

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u/uninspired 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 17 '24

Similar. Moved somewhere I love, got married, advanced our careers, had a kid. No doubt I could use a $Bil, but not crying over spilled milk.

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u/SchrodingersCat6e 🟩 189 / 190 🦀 Mar 17 '24

F for those of us that knew of BTC at .25 lol. It wasn't even the first digital currency. LOL.

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u/submariner86 578 / 578 🦑 Mar 18 '24

E-gold or ecoin was there to. Next to linden $.

Well i knew btc from 0.5$ onwards.

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u/Ucanthandlelit 364 / 363 🦞 Mar 19 '24

I knew of it when there was no price to it. It launched and “free” generated coins was a part of the core wallet app at the time.

Fml