Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated after 14 yrs

Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by DoesntMatter22 on Saturday July 05, 2025 @02:24AM (#44470500)

Worse fun personal fact. I was planning to buy 5000 bitcoins on a Friday after work. A coworker convinced me and it made sense. Bitcoin was less than 2 a coin at that point.

Then I go down the elevator in my building and there is a huge crowd of people. It ended up being 50 cent the rapper and a few other famous people.

It was so surreal and unexpected I completely forgot about Bitcoin for a few months. And by then I could stand the fact it had tripled (or something) and I had missed it.

Would have been hundreds of millions. Could have lost the hdd or had sold later but I'd always hold some.

Lol so now I blame 50 cent that I didn't buy Bitcoin

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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by tony69 on Saturday July 05, 2025 @03:12AM (#44470704)

You would’ve sold it way before it became FU money

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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by bbarnett on Saturday July 05, 2025 @03:31AM (#44470779)

Indeed. That's what so many miss.

One of the doge creators sold all his early doge for a used car. He'd hit the jackpot, a $5k return on something he rolled out in under a day's work, for fun.

He didn't make the wrong decision. All his coin was worth 5 bucks, then 5900. What would you do?

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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by DoesntMatter22 on Saturday July 05, 2025 @11:38AM (#44473486)

I doubt it, Ive held my Tesla shares since the beginning.

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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by AuryGlenz on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:47AM (#44497161)

People always say that but (obviously) never everyone does.

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