As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell

Re:As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell by jscheel on Monday November 18, 2013 @03:06PM (#6756584)

I'm pretty sure I have a wallet that I dumped a couple of bucks into when bitcoin was first starting out. Problem is, I have no clue where it might be, or even what computer it might be on. Laaaame.

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Re:As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell by Andrenid on Monday November 18, 2013 @03:20PM (#6756697)

Yeah I have 3 bitcoins that were given to me at the very start by a friend who was into it. I shrugged it off as something that'd never take off. Now I've been digging around through my box of old HDDs and USB sticks!

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Re:As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell by sliverstorm on Monday November 18, 2013 @03:35PM (#6756804)

It will be interesting to see how these "lost" bitcoins are handled long-term when quoting things like market capitalization.

Perhaps we can start flagging wallets with no activity since [date when BTC value exploded] as "probably lost". A crude heuristic, to be sure, but perhaps useful.

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Re:As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell by buro9 on Monday November 18, 2013 @03:31PM (#6756773)

Same here. The result of early mining, but now effectively lost as they're on none of the USB sticks I have and I suspect one of these Linux installers was the culprit.

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Re:As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell by bru on Monday November 18, 2013 @03:10PM (#6756604)

I did the same at the time. I know in which computer mine is. But I know I trashed that computer not long after...

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Re:As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell by Ascendency on Monday November 18, 2013 @05:09PM (#6757504)

There should be a bitcoin recovery service, those coins could be worth serious amounts of money, now.

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