TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day 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-square75fedilinkarrow-up1336arrow-down19cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1327arrow-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 · 1 day agomessage-square75fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squarelemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-221 hours 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-squareshastaxc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 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-up5·11 hours 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…
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.