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[–]101111 455 ポイント456 ポイント  (23子コメント)

How was the pizza?

[–]gowatchanimefgt 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (15子コメント)

I don't get it

[–]chad1312 116 ポイント117 ポイント  (4子コメント)

In the early days of Bitcoin, people would buy pizza for a lot of BTC. It wasn't worth a lot then, but it would be now.

[–]dooglus 106 ポイント107 ポイント  (9子コメント)

This guy paid 10,000 BTC (around 9 million dollars at today's prices) for two large pizzas.

[–]throwawaybankamredditor for 2 months 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (0子コメント)

damn pizza guys getting all the porn actresses and bitcoin

[–]ukpfchuckafar[S] 1700 ポイント1701 ポイント x2 (375子コメント)

I unfortunately sold a lot through mtgox in 2012 before the crash (small by today's standards). Still have some left but don't know how many, won't know until my blockchain updates. Fingers crossed!

Edit: http://imgur.com/g4hbCJx fucking around in 2010....

Edit 2: This was running in the background on my 'gaming' desktop (i7 920). I was 16-17 at the time, and I sold about $20k worth in 2012 @ something like $13/ea. I definitely kept some though so we will see...

Edit 3: I guess these days you guys don't have transaction fees of 0.5btc? :) http://imgur.com/ggjQPVZ

Edit 4: Still updating. More transactions for those talking about $2m: http://imgur.com/NpBiBNH

Edit 5: Bad news... As of early 2013 (i.e. the end of my big sell-off) I only have 72 bitcoins left. All of these transactions are to mtgox (look up bitcoin price chart for august/sept 2012). All of these transactions came out to ~$20k, which was great then (sold just before crash) but not so good now. I don't feel bad about it though becuase I was 16 and too big a risk to pass up. Looks like I hold on to 72 but I won't know for sure till I sync further. This hard-drive has been 'lost' for at least 2 years so I won't have to sync all the way to present day to find out whether I sold any of the 72.

The transfers to mtgox: http://imgur.com/q13YYgs

Edit 6: Last edit for the day, blockchain still syncing, still more than 2 years behind. Will run it again tomorrow. Whatever happens I'll post my final up to date overview in a couple of days or so on this post in case anyone is still interested.

[–]viners 1560 ポイント1561 ポイント  (198子コメント)

You just found 72 bitcoins. That's not "bad news" in any way.

[–]kyonu 1411 ポイント1412 ポイント  (169子コメント)

Seriously. "Finding" $50,000 - $60,000 isn't chump change.

[–]MyNameIsSushi 520 ポイント521 ポイント  (156子コメント)

Seriously. My broke ass would be fucking happy about 1000€ right now. Fml I'm jealous.

[–]kyonu 209 ポイント210 ポイント  (123子コメント)

Seriously dawg. It would bring me out of all my debt, move me to a better town to find a better job, and finally be able to move on with my currently miserable (because of debt and location) life. Oh and I could actually afford healthcare! I used to snuff my nose at "bitcoin miners" and the like back in the day, and instead wasted away playing Gamecube. FML

[–]MyNameIsSushi 78 ポイント79 ポイント  (112子コメント)

My biggest complaint right now is that I'm forced to do civil service in my country. Basically you work in a retirement home or something like that, 42 hours a week and receive 317€ a month. My plan was to go to university and work part-time after getting my Higher School Certificate but noo, my beloved country wants me to waste a year of my life and try to get by with fucking 300€ a month for 42 hours a week. What the fuck, Austria?

Sorry for the rant. I had to get it out of my system.

[–]twodogsfighting 159 ポイント160 ポイント  (5子コメント)

They're probably just terrified in case you go to art school or something.

[–]GrinchPaws 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I bet all German art school insta-accept any art student from Austria, even if their portfolio is 3D cubes and stickmen.

[–]Johknee5 39 ポイント40 ポイント  (13子コメント)

I love how you emphasized 42 hours a week, as if that were some insurmountable and ungodly amount of hours to work.

Please dont ever come to America then, you would hate your life.

[–]MyNameIsSushi 35 ポイント36 ポイント  (5子コメント)

On average people get around 1400€ where I work for 40 hours a week. I get 300€, wanted to emphasize that I get almost nothing for the same job.

[–]sushiftw 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (22子コメント)

TBH I wish my country had mandatory civil service. Be it military or helping the elderly or children. I think it helps build the character of a nation and should be completed with pride.

Life is all about perspective. Your perspective changes as you acquire more life experience.

I am not saying you are not allowed to rant or complain, you have every right to do that. I'm just saying there are many benefits to this type of system that you cant see yet, because of perspective.

[–]MyNameIsSushi 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (11子コメント)

I do see the benefits. It has helped me be more communicative, social and responsible. I can now understand what the elderly go through, their day to day struggles, illnesses etc. There are benefits, definitely, but the detriments outweigh the benefits in my opinion. Not to mention the pay is absolutely ridiculous for the work I do/time I spend.

[–]Phylar 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Seriously. "Finding" $50,000 - $60,000 isn't chump change.

No it isn't. This is exactly the amount of my current student debts. I'd be floored if I found enough bitcoins just lying around that'd make my debt disappear.

[–]Hazzman 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That kind of money would change my life.

[–]Xer0day 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's a life changing amount of money. That'd pay my bills for 2 years

[–]BWalker66 112 ポイント113 ポイント  (24子コメント)

That's life changing to some and this guy isn't even acting like it's a big deal, he must have a nice job or something :. It would be so much to me that I'd take my immediate family out for a meal and would have to make it a big announcement. Then I'd give them $5k each and with the last $50k+ I'd put a deposit down on owning a house.

I'm just over here with 0.05 btc..

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    [–]Mortos3 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    Well mining used to be a lot easier to do at home. Wasn't it originally bundled with the wallet software (i.e. cpu mining)?

    [–]McBurger 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    It sure was. I was mining for a long time but eventually quit because I wasn't getting any results near like this. Even with GPU miners.

    [–]Dodecabrohedron 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    So if you had a life changing amount of money you'd announce it to the world, blow it all immediately and take on a mortgage payment?

    [–]ElectricDuckPond 111 ポイント112 ポイント  (45子コメント)

    I did a similar thing, had loads of bitcoins in mtgox, but couldn't even get them out as i was only 16 at the time and didn't have any proof of residency, then the crash :(

    [–]ukpfchuckafar[S] 140 ポイント141 ポイント  (43子コメント)

    Yeah I had issues withdrawing. There was a ~$1000 daily limit, so I made something like 12 accounts and withdrew all in parallel. It took more than 6 months for all of the wire transfers to come through.

    By the way, all 12 accounts were registered to the same email address. If any of you received the mtgox spam/legal documents/phishing... I got 12 times that all to the same inbox!

    [–]themoneybadger 54 ポイント55 ポイント  (27子コメント)

    Ugh. That liquidity is painful.

    [–]ukpfchuckafar[S] 56 ポイント57 ポイント  (25子コメント)

    Yeah, tell me about it. The other issue was dealing with the tax people. Nobody had really heard of bitcoin at that point beyond a few newspaper articles about buying pizza.

    [–]vishtratwork 53 ポイント54 ポイント  (24子コメント)

    Yeah, 2012 I was at a Big 4 firm doing tax, one of the largest firms in the world, and was considered and expert in bitcoin because I sold a used couch for some BT prior. Nuts how that shit took off.

    [–]cqm 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    In the 80s, people that solved rubix cubes were heralded as geniuses.

    [–]PfftNope 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    In the 1980s you actually had to figure it out on your own though. The Rubik's cube is a puzzle after all. Now people just look a up the solution online which is cheating.

    [–]Neathh 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    The solution actually comes in the packaging with the rubik's cube.

    [–]Richy_T 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Pretty sure it didn't at the time. Though I had the cheaper knockoff.

    [–]elastic-craptastic 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (13子コメント)

    Speaking of tax. How would taxes work if he found and sold 1 million dollars worth? Does he have to pay taxes on that sale?

    Edit: Thanks [most] of you. Capital Gains tax.

    [–]ConqueefStador 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Yes, it falls under the capital gains tax,

    [–]vishtratwork 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Probably, but not necessarily. I would say more likely than not for OP since he is no longer mining, but under notice 2014-21, the service hints at mining possibly being considered a business, if run like a business, and explicitly states that if that's the case ordinary treatment (including self employment tax) may be applicable.

    [–]ten24 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    US capital gains tax 101:

    1. You have a thing.

    2. That thing appreciates in value.

    3. You sell that thing.

    4. You owe tax.

    [–]jayaugust 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (11子コメント)

    Use a chinese illegal bitcoin converter. Don't cash out through those sites, it's too expensive

    [–]vamprism 194 ポイント195 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    In fucking sane, take my upvote and some good luck with it.

    [–]thorle 103 ポイント104 ポイント  (11子コメント)

    Hey, it's me, your cousin!

    [–]wytewydow 78 ポイント79 ポイント  (7子コメント)

    Marvin? Marvin Berry?

    [–]BlooQKazoo 26 ポイント27 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    You know that new sound you're lookin for?

    [–]kingskate 25 ポイント26 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Well listen to this!

    [–]KingJonathan 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I thought it was gonna be Chuck Berry farting in a hookers face.

    [–]mr_majorly 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I clicked this fully expecting to be rick rolled... Instead I'm sitting here blinking repeatedly since I appear to have had a seizure.

    [–]exoxe 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Cousin? It's me, your best internet friend!

    [–]sethmo 56 ポイント57 ポイント  (22子コメント)

    I was an early gpu miner. Mined and sold over 155 btc from 2010-2012. Looking back at past transactions, selling 15btc for $4.xx each was a weekly occurance. Makes me cry a little on the inside. Ohh to be young and dumb!

    [–]ukpfchuckafar[S] 99 ポイント100 ポイント  (17子コメント)

    Not dumb imo. Sure would've been better to hold in hindsight but (as I'm sure you will know if you were involved from 2010) I overnight (as a 16-year old) found out that some random freeware I'd downloaded off 4chan had 'made' me $20k. There was no precedent, there was no widespread knowledge of bitcoin or any other cryptocurrencies, there was MASSIVE volatility (as there still is I guess? not been following much). I think it was the right decision to cash out at that stage. Let me tell you having that money in university and while travelling changed my life.

    Sure I could be a multimillionaire but... I could've also spent my money on lottery tickets and won that too. I've obviously had a long time to come to terms (!!) with the amount of money that it could have been but I think it was the right decision to sell at that time. Seems like I kept ~70BTC so I had SOME appetite for risk/gambling... just not $20k at 16.

    I'm sure you were in a similar boat... don't beat yourself up over it. Nobody knows the future.

    [–]seredin 60 ポイント61 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Seems like I kept ~70BTC

    So you just found like $68,000?

    (I'm from /r/all, this stuff is wizardry to me)

    [–]sethmo 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Yeah, I did it for the fun and I had a lot of fun! I had two 4x 5830 rigs, one 2x 5870 rig and my main 2x 6950 rig all mining at once at one point in time. I looked at getting back into it with Asics, but it just wasn't the same with the now high difficulty. I made out alright though, It paid for my mining gear which was my main goal! Here's to a trip down memory lane! Some 2011 era mining rigs: http://imgur.com/a/qyGSH

    [–]lonelypaperclip 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Hindsight is 20-20. There is no way you could have known that those 15BTC you were selling for $4 each week would be worth ~$14,000-$15,000 in 5-6 years.

    [–]Gunni2000 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (12子コメント)

    How did your hear about Bitcoin?

    [–]ukpfchuckafar[S] 164 ポイント165 ポイント  (11子コメント)

    Well... unfortunately not a very glamorous story... I was 15/16 and browsing 4chan... I guess thinking racism was funny as a teen paid off?

    [–]AtomsInSnow 55 ポイント56 ポイント  (7子コメント)

    heh, that's how I found out about bitcoin, I was intrigued, until someone made a post explaining to me how bitcoin was dumb and pointless because you would spend more money on electricity powering the computer than you would earn from the coins you gained mining, so I instantly lost interest.

    Thanks anon.

    [–]flyingfences 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Nothing wrong with 4chan if you stay on the decent boards.

    [–]______DEADPOOL______ 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    ....

    Dammit, mom! I told you racism pays off! >:(

    "Be nice to people." They said.

    "They'll repay you some day." They said.

    [–]sysl0rd 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Looks like a old lost treasure :p

    [–]Armor_of_Inferno 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    I can't wait to see what you've still got left. This is the new r/whatsinthisthing until we know. We're counting on you to update us, OP. Good luck, bro!

    [–]MoldyTangerine 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    This is basically the digital equivalent of "I found a safe, I'm going to open it and post back."

    [–]xFury86 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Lucky! I bought about $10 worth when it came out, lost all of it after I formatted my hard drive that I still use to do, recently got back into bitcoin and I'm still sad thinking about it lol

    [–]hatechildren 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    How many PMs have you gotten asking for money so far?

    [–]kaesikas 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Only? That's still a whole lot of money. Congrats!

    [–]CubeStuffs 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Hey its me ur brother

    [–]tennistargaryen 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    Is it still worth the time to mine Bitcoins?

    [–]octave1 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    No, the electricity costs more. Unless you're Chinese and live near a dam where electricity is free.

    [–]cryptoreporter 719 ポイント720 ポイント  (141子コメント)

    Awesome! I remember those days. A friend who got me into bitcoin sent me 50btc after I paid for beer and pizza. I never mined though. He had like 4 computers mining with CPU, then upgraded to 8 computers with GPU. His bedroom was hot, his wife was always complaining about the heat and $300 a month electric bills... but now? He retired in 2013 under 40 years old and travels the world.

    [–]YESMYFRlENDSredditor for 3 months 114 ポイント115 ポイント  (25子コメント)

    Damn, he must he happy he didn't sell!

    [–]cryptoreporter 119 ポイント120 ポイント  (24子コメント)

    He sold everything he had liquid in 2013 around $600. Not bad considering he was mining when it was 50 cents to a dollar.

    [–]ActsJuvenile 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (23子コメント)

    Wow - how much do you reckon he made in 2013?

    [–]tasmanian101 64 ポイント65 ポイント  (22子コメント)

    If he saved 2k bitcoins, which is doable with 8 computers mining, and sold it at 600. That's a cool 1.2 million. Plenty to retire on and travel

    [–]ArigoCSredditor for 2 months 84 ポイント85 ポイント  (21子コメント)

    1.2 million really isn't that much to retire on, especially at 40

    [–]tasmanian101 58 ポイント59 ポイント  (13子コメント)

    It's pleanty if you invest smart. 100k a year income off of a million is doable, 50k is easy. Theres a problem if you cant live off 100k a year

    [–]Shayde098 20 ポイント21 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    10% returns are going to carry A LOT of risk. There is no sure-fire, safe way to ensure 100k/year off of a million.

    [–]coinaday 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    10% returns are going to carry A LOT of risk.

    Funny you should say that here.

    [–]itworks123 31 ポイント32 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Wow, how many did he mine?

    [–]cryptoreporter 56 ポイント57 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I know it was A LOT. I never did ask him an outright number. He was churning them out because at some point I seem to remember he was telling me he was doing something ridiculous at the time like 5 an hour or 20 a day? I dont recall the exact numbers. He had his GPU machines working for about 6 months or so if I recall. Not sure if he shut it down because it became less profitable or because he was moving to a different house.

    [–]_wizened_redditor for 2 months 341 ポイント342 ポイント  (53子コメント)

    Moral of story: wives don't know shit about tech

    [–]HowRiskyIsDatClick 95 ポイント96 ポイント  (22子コメント)

    When it comes to investing do the opposite of what your wife says.

    [–]ewatk 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    I sold my Marvel shares at about 2.50 before it soared to 55 and got bought out by disney, and my apple shares at about 75 before it went to ~600 and split. Both times because my wife needed something. I could have paid off both of our school loans.

    [–]eitauisunity 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I guess it depends on what she needed.

    Liver transplant? Hmmm -- yeah, maybe. Depends on your relationship.

    Cartier necklace? Fuck off!

    [–]ewatk 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    More like the second one. I am stretching the definition of "need"

    [–]PM_ME_UR_NAKED_MOM 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (20子コメント)

    We have the information technology we have today thanks in large part to people who happened to be wives. Try learning about the history of technology.

    [–]k1579798redditor for 1 hours 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    0 Bitcoin in total, someone checked below in the comments.

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    13Xn6QddTcweYP3r6KN9BFafHDzE3U7ufz

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    1GhndCZlqXrTRboPJiiiYzFf3ezxrdp94d

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    14LcToSE3Ccs9YF27CVKj1a7fzYzcv4ceH

    1EW91uEiWXgTTARqyW55K6C5DSs2gKzYAP

    1BeMTSERMb7ZvZgVa24VfEnLhq6yvlH8hA

    18cdkubMdLC1C7TUWqmTCUYziDjDcoTJAm

    14xoch6nWzg8Qf3UiFngXGL5GWBTZ9bhCu

    12MPcGVJdGqpSYgTYJmECGQN2zr7CfFxPw

    1EmRCSjV94VD1xR9HRPgsVPTnWet523NeZ

    1B3z46V1ahrxr5xMX9JiMxJcm2NkBrjMvL

    1MsgzMgtil4tBEtxPMHZoLXsi7vLU6R5W4

    1AcbEpoh7ertjr9TMtM8rodnWnsL81ix3f

    14sKAZTLqcW2KQTDGIcInZWk4TtcNqLM1m

    1PRqusC7BWR6YQLHE1d9kke8bdgtkE6ndf

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    13FcfAituwu3Jc9PNrAMgU7iTcrxSppM3q

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    15wpzVGEhi56M5Cu6FSBNvG6GjLXAUSTBD

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    1Fhf7aRGSrBRMgpPjERbICOEgAPDKPH6im

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    15cyq2KMQS35k1RX6QzcHXPCb6Buwxx2zA

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    1Hz6EwuhXPNYkgezvdEBBr4XsuWDQMU2c4

    1M8zJqCWnx3JhpG8VVBTfCZGKHCuKbjsfZ

    14FP5bo5dtkmWrnGlel8fB657XBgRQHfMc

    1P3BiexKLdK3M5vE3sGvpMSZF2w6bxaXvb

    15p4gF43G1fcgWR9HGPTQ4zsZmu3oADpJG

    [–]dlerium 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    The thing is you had to hold for very long. That's a lot of guts to see Bitcoin rise to $32 in 2011 and then crash back down to $2 and hold til it went back to $600.

    Props to him being smart/lucky. I personally was too lazy in grad school to setup a mining rig until way too late, but still got a good amount out.

    [–]hl2run 104 ポイント105 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Just don't sell it all at once now cause you'll drag the price dooooown :) Mr. Millionaire

    [–]-Tape- 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    He obviously sold it back then for pennies compared to it's current worth...

    [–]Stupidaussiewanker 308 ポイント309 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    My dear lord.....

    Just a casual 2 million

    [–]BlackDeath3 73 ポイント74 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Notice the scrollbar. If that entire length is full of identical entries, I estimate closer to $5,000,000 USD.

    [–]Nooku 55 ポイント56 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Yeah and now OP has updated his post with the fact he only has 72 BTC left out of those 5,000 BTC.

    It's quite funny to have sold $4,928,000 future worthiness of Bitcoins, and then still holding on to $72,000 today.

    Also a bit sad maybe.

    [–]whatyousay69 43 ポイント44 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    If no one ever sold/used Bitcoins it wouldn't be worth $5000.

    [–]BlackDeath3 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Definitely a bit sad, I'd say. But a healthy dose of optimism says "72 Bitcoins, motherfucker!".

    [–]Geovicsha 135 ポイント136 ポイント  (14子コメント)

    This makes me cringe. Logically, hindsight is 20/20, but fuck...

    [–]Crully 53 ポイント54 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I was feeling bad for selling 13 btc and spending it on a £2.5k bike... Coulda bought 4 now... But this...

    [–]Anterai 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Last spring I was renting a summer home. Withdrew like 1.5k at $400 per btc.

    In a month BTC doubled in price.

    Tell me about hindsight

    [–]approx- 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I was mining 8 a day at one point, and selling them for a few bucks apiece as quickly as I mined them. :(

    [–]pbarber 133 ポイント134 ポイント  (29子コメント)

    Holy shit... this really makes me wish I had taken the time to actually learn how to mine bitcoin. So much I missed out on.

    [–]GuessWhat_InTheButt 133 ポイント134 ポイント  (15子コメント)

    You'd have sold most of it on the way up like everyone else.

    [–]potatoesarenotcool 26 ポイント27 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    I have a single bitcoin (+/-) in south Africa. Now to get it to me in Ireland.

    Edit: All the information for the wallet is on a pen drive. With my 76 year old grandfather. Its not getting Herr anytime soon.

    [–]lacksfish[🍰] 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    How come your wallet is in south africa?

    [–]potatoesarenotcool 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    All my information for the wallet is on a pen drive. I lived there, and just left it there. Then one day I saw it was worth $700+. That's a lot of money man...

    [–]dlerium 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    This. I sold like 92 BTC or something at $3.00. Oh well. Recouped hardware costs I suppose.

    [–]jkeller4000 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    bit coin is therotically a deflationary currency. buying any bit coin now. will profit you in the future. if people continue to use bit coins regularly . so we got to hope they can keep splitting the bit coins into smaller units forever. so people can trade the small amount that exist.

    or hope that people do not buy and hold every single one hoping it goes up in value because then no one would use them and then they would go the way of the Bennie baby!

    [–]jeffthedunker 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I don't think that logic adds up. It's deflationary in the sense that the rate of inflation is decreasing... but there is still an inflation. For prices to sustain, 12.5*current price needs to be invested into Bitcoin every time a block is mined for prices to sustain, in the long run.

    [–]px403 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Back then everyone using bitcoin was mining by default. When you open the bitcoin wallet, the only thing you could use to send and receive bitcoin, your CPU would spike and you would start CPU mining. All of the coins in the screenshot were probably mined by some janky old CPU.

    [–]gonzobon 64 ポイント65 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Hello My dear new friend,

    I am a Nigerian prince sitting on a gold mine of resources and valuable bank accounts. The lawyers require 70 BTC to access these valuable things.

    Please send me a message if you are interested in helping me to regain these billions in exchange for a large percentage higher than your original investment.

    Look forward to working with you my friend.

    Best wishes,

    "The" nigerian prince

    [–]wallpaperboiredditor for 2 months 54 ポイント55 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    sometimes i imagine i have a hidden hard drive with bitcoin i mined in a previous life. Then all i find is another porn drive.

    [–]Rhythmusk0rb 49 ポイント50 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    So, you're meaning to say you only got 72 bitcoin left, which roughly equals 61,419 according to google (64.856 US Dollar) but you sold around 1540 (20k/13) which would equal to 1,313,699 Euro (1.387.201 US Dollars) today.

    WOW.

    [–]kayakguy429 46 ポイント47 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Cool fun fact: U.S. uses commas instead of periods. $1,387,201

    [–]Garber617 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (41子コメント)

    So for the uninformed like myself who have no idea how bitcoins work, how much would this be?

    [–]handsomechandler 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (34子コメント)

    1 bitcoin is currently worth about $900... so a lot.

    [–]Token_black-guy 32 ポイント33 ポイント  (13子コメント)

    And each '50.0000' is 50 bitcoins?

    [–]handsomechandler 36 ポイント37 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    yes. When bitcoin started each 'block' mined awarded the miner 50 brand new bitcoins.

    [–]awesomeck 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    So this guy who discovered his hard disk is suddenly a millionaire?

    [–]Oatz3 61 ポイント62 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    He said he has 72 left. So a 72 thousand-aire.

    [–]darkstar107 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Unless he's in Canada, then it's worth closer to $90,000.

    [–]darkvador1900 55 ポイント56 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    good luck. if you have at least 50 remaining in this load. call it a win!

    [–]StinCrm 55 ポイント56 ポイント  (81子コメント)

    Here from r/all, unfamiliar with BTC for the most part, can someone explain what is happening here?

    [–]Vadrone 66 ポイント67 ポイント  (34子コメント)

    See that long, vertical string of "50 BTC" to the right of the image?

    1 BTC is currently worth 891 US dollars.

    Yeah.

    [–]StinCrm 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (32子コメント)

    Fucking crazy, it actually made my stomach hurt doing the math. I'm guessing mining isn't really this feasible anymore?

    [–]Jewpacarbra 51 ポイント52 ポイント  (22子コメント)

    5-7 years ago it was totally possible. I remember mining on my dads crappy old computer. Now days you have companies that have warehouses FILLED with hardware to mine for BTC 24/7 365d/y.

    Back when it first started to kick off people had no idea how much they would be worth. There are many stories about people loosing/selling hundreds even thousands of coins, that would now be worth millions.

    Honestly go do some research on bitcoin its fascinating.

    [–]Halgrind 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    That's with all speculative investments though. Great grandfather was poor during the great depression, but he managed to get a great deal on a huge plot of farmland just outside the city. Sold it to developers in the 50s and 60s and was able to retire off it, but none of the money was left by the time he died. Has he waited 20 years or managed to find investors to develop it while maintaining ownership, I probably wouldn't have to work a day in my life.

    [–]OverKy 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (14子コメント)

    Where are the coins when they lose them (like in a hard drive crash)? Do they just fly off into the ether never to be seen again?

    [–]handsomechandler 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Yes, if the private keys of a wallet are lost, the coins at the addresses in that wallet can never be spent again by anyone. The coins are effectively lost forever.

    [–]bennyh6813 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Nope, they are still attached to that wallet, so technically without a backup they'd be lost forever.

    [–]Vadrone 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Yeah. Nowadays it requires entire rooms dedicated to rigs with special hardware specifically designed for Bitcoin mining, just to have a chance of receiving the prize of 12.5 BTC (the reward decreases by 50% every 4 years).

    [–]Savag3Coiner 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Unfortunately not. The mining is "governed" (for lack of a better term) by algorithms that increase in difficulty as supply increases. This helps to keep the supply steady. Used to be able to mine btc on any laptop but now you need a warehouse full of servers*

    • You can still mine a little bit from a PC but it's only little bits here and there. Real mining is done by super computers.

    [–]paakjis 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (21子コメント)

    One Bitcoin is worth now about 900$ ( was 1200$ few days ago). Back then it was worth like 0.01$. Op found old hard drive where he had more that 1000 Bitcoins. Its only history , so it might be all gone now. Hes checking now if hes a millionaire or slumdog.

    [–]StinCrm 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (19子コメント)

    How the hell does it fluctuate like that in a couple days? Sounds like daily investing could be an incredibly lucrative play in this world.

    [–]Savag3Coiner 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Over the last 12ish months volatility has actually been very low; however, recent price increases mean more volatility. Some people make a killing, most just give their money to those who are killing.

    Not sure what part of the world you're in but there are some very reputable exchanges out there and some shady ones. Coinbase/GDAX, Gemini, Kraken, and itBit are among the more reputable exchanges.

    [–]gonickryan 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Dude basically found a million dollars under the mattress

    [–]LogyYogiredditor for 2 hours 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Dude mined a load of bitcoin back in the day when they were worth basically fuck all. Mining bitcoin is essentially where you run an algorithm on your computer to solve equations. Whoever solves the equation gets the bitcoin. It was really easy at first because so few people doing it and bitcoin was worth basically nothing.

    Now the computing power required to mine a single bitcoin is enormous and they are worth about $900 each.

    [–]Aqua_lung 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    What bums me is that I passed up my opportunity to mine for bitcoin in the early days thinking it would better using my time mining for gold in WoW instead.

    [–]koinster 35 ポイント36 ポイント  (16子コメント)

    Just a thought... I wonder if the private keys themselves could have some value. You could sign messages with them proving you mined from early blocks. Some collectors might want access to that - you should keep those keys saved. If anything, for a future Bitcoin museum.

    [–]ukpfchuckafar[S] 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (13子コメント)

    Not sure what this means - I've been out of the bitcoin loop for a long time? Could you explain?

    [–]TheSecretMe 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    He's talking about the vanity of value of having a private key that indicates you got in during the early days of bitcoin. Some people care about prestige things like that and will pay for it.

    [–]paakjis 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Its like when people buy number plates for cars because they start with AA

    [–]koinster 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Exactly this, /u/ukpfchuckafar - with the private keys, even if there are no coins in it, you could prove you have a key from one of the earlier blocks. Your private keys themselves could prove valuable in the future.

    If you have no need for them, move all of your coins once it's synced and sell your wallet file. Or just hodl on to it for future use ;)

    [–]giszmo 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Bragging rights. You can proof you have been around early on but I don't see much value in selling private keys. Too easy to double-spend ;)

    [–]Zear-0 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (7子コメント)

    Wish I could find my multi million $ hard drive, unfortunately its in a landfill somewhere.

    [–]omninous_cloudsredditor for 1 month 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    What state? What landfill? What kind of hard drive?

    I'm already on my way.

    [–]roundtree 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Brings back painful memories. I remember around this time I spent about a week mining and ended up with 3-4 bitcoins. At the end of it I found I only had about $.30, so I just ditched it and the coins...

    [–]FrenchCucks 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    If you feel like you missed the boat you can still own 100 Milli-BTC for less than $100. Might be $100k in the future. If you can't do it then don't fantasize about what could have been in the early days of BTC. That's just how the early adopters felt but in terms of BTC and not milli BTC

    [–]askmeifimacop 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Not getting into bitcoin 6-7 years ago is one of my biggest regrets. I had seen all the discussion about it on 4chan, and the consensus is it took forever to mine, and you'd be gaining a couple of cents an hour. You'd be losing money because it took more to power your computer. And on top of that, trusting 4chan is never a good idea. Fuck..

    [–]somesayhey12 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    0 Bitcoin in total, I checked!

    16CngtfDmm3b5HEhB76Nd2We9kjewuE3VD

    13Xn6QddTcweYP3r6KN9BFafHDzE3U7ufz

    1AyaZ2LrLVUCcYdJT3UsWc3meooCUt5WDE

    164sqJkW6QAeuLEFrgfWHEbM1LitRL1mX9

    1VVyLsk6ZEWhJjivKfoFPh3DAZ2za7Ea6

    1GhndCZlqXrTRboPJiiiYzFf3ezxrdp94d

    18LvzwoadjTof749Q1N9vVnwRxnE28xnDM

    14LcToSE3Ccs9YF27CVKj1a7fzYzcv4ceH

    1EW91uEiWXgTTARqyW55K6C5DSs2gKzYAP

    1BeMTSERMb7ZvZgVa24VfEnLhq6yvlH8hA

    18cdkubMdLC1C7TUWqmTCUYziDjDcoTJAm

    14xoch6nWzg8Qf3UiFngXGL5GWBTZ9bhCu

    12MPcGVJdGqpSYgTYJmECGQN2zr7CfFxPw

    1EmRCSjV94VD1xR9HRPgsVPTnWet523NeZ

    1B3z46V1ahrxr5xMX9JiMxJcm2NkBrjMvL

    1MsgzMgtil4tBEtxPMHZoLXsi7vLU6R5W4

    1AcbEpoh7ertjr9TMtM8rodnWnsL81ix3f

    14sKAZTLqcW2KQTDGIcInZWk4TtcNqLM1m

    1PRqusC7BWR6YQLHE1d9kke8bdgtkE6ndf

    13WV9WtLWpnmGG3D8U2wEGwWFaQTwCNw37

    13FcfAituwu3Jc9PNrAMgU7iTcrxSppM3q

    1CuSt85GmFojx9PhWgKkep6sjtD7DFlZx5

    15wpzVGEhi56M5Cu6FSBNvG6GjLXAUSTBD

    1HCXWyShRfMVQHKkekXkr1TmYh5U1RASED

    1sEu6XGGLjelRrENotK224dMBC1xtb9WY

    1Db8sc56t2z4koyFN9nLn5HGZbReVyPL8c

    19cDhRdANHPAHkTfEkHRX9M2fB31odPsnp

    12GqaCz1DUGarMkn1HCeS1g8y6KqFVj7tZ

    1Ne3dCJz4tyDqlpfP8gYC4KtZNrs7JF6pD

    12fCtlLCfYBn3lYpUhalGFiaqTsBoRx6qP

    1NitpM6a5YYVw9Fj2yELCDyvwPy5VUmTPv

    1Fhf7aRGSrBRMgpPjERbICOEgAPDKPH6im

    15Q1G6VdVqAmM7Lofn74J1y59oCtYlyf92

    15cyq2KMQS35k1RX6QzcHXPCb6Buwxx2zA

    1BBfPZwSrQ2gFeg8w7YurUJhi7VdeDK8QP

    1Hz6EwuhXPNYkgezvdEBBr4XsuWDQMU2c4

    1M8zJqCWnx3JhpG8VVBTfCZGKHCuKbjsfZ

    14FP5bo5dtkmWrnGlel8fB657XBgRQHfMc

    1P3BiexKLdK3M5vE3sGvpMSZF2w6bxaXvb

    15p4gF43G1fcgWR9HGPTQ4zsZmu3oADpJG

    [–]neosatus 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Amazing. How did you come to learn about bitcoin in such early days? Would love to hear the story.

    [–]pbarber 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    He said in another post he heard about it browsing 4chan hah

    [–]lennyfromthe313 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I heard about bitcoin near release, but my computer was not fast enough to mine anything at all, probably should have tried though.. :(

    [–]HeadCRasher 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (25子コメント)

    Sadly all are empty.

    [–]little_homie 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    How did you check them so fast? OCR?

    [–]vnnkl 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    walletexplorer.com & smartbit.com.au (preferrable) are two block explorers that support FirstBits,

    so when you start typing in an address manually, it will display matching ones in their database, you need like 6 starting characters so it gets unique, that speeds it up.

    [–]Itchy_Craphole 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Did you happen to buy a pizza a handful of years ago????

    [–]CryptoAnthony 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Satoshi, you have returned.

    [–]TrueMiszou 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Oh. Does hodl still apply?

    [–]px403 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Nice, now I feel like I was late to the game:

    http://imgur.com/NPxJxNQ

    Where did you first hear about bitcoin? I first heard about it when Eugene Litel forwarded to the 0.2 announcement to the Cypherpunks mailing list:

    http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2009/msg00061.html

    [–]freeradicalx 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    OP it's me, ur cousin

    [–]DripDrop14 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Hey send me your hard drive and I'll scan it for viruses lol

    [–]patriot1889 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I'm excited to see how many are left. Best of luck!

    [–]mindplunge 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Nice! I'm pretty sure my old hard drives contain utter crap...

    [–]teamhex 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    I wish I was smart enough to get onboard during the time it was new. Ohh well.