• Coriza@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I mean, if you notice that you had and lost 700 millions you have to have a really strong mind to not go crazy. If it was me I think I would go crazy.

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      5 hours ago

      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…

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      14 hours ago

      It’s a far cry from this guy’s situation, but I think I had five or six bitcoin back when I was mining in the early days. I cashed out when they were maybe $40-50 each towards a new GPU.

      Sure, I could go nuts thinking about what I would do with the money now, but if I hadn’t sold at that rate, I probably would have sold at $100, or $200, or…

      There’s no way in hell I would have had the discipline to “hodl” to this point, so I just get on with my life.

      • jdeath@lemm.ee
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        10 hours ago

        yeah i lots dozens. and i have an SSD that died with the keys to 5 more. I’m not losing sleep over it

      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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        13 hours ago

        I had a few in my digital wallet that disappeared. I’ve looked for it for hours. oh well… when I last accessed it, the rate was probably less than $20 each, so I figured I lost a couple bucks… I would have sold them forever ago so no use thinking about what they’re worth now

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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        11 hours ago

        Yeah, but if those Bitcoin were “out there somewhere”, and you’d never have to think about money ever again if you found them…