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Re:The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact by nostrademons on Sunday July 23, 2017 @01:31PM (#14833345)
BitCoin, where the inventor managed to convince people to accept a new currency, mined the first few blocks of it, and ended up with a billion dollars in paper wealth as a result.
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Re:The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact by curiousgal on Sunday July 23, 2017 @02:31PM (#14833659)
Except the inventor's coins have not been moved in ages so there's that..
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Re:The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact by _nedR on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:00AM (#14836410)
By that logic all fiat currencies and even some commodities like diamond and gold(whose usefulness from an industrial perspective doesn't match their market value) would fit the bill.
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