Man sues council for £495m over a lost Bitcoin hard drive in landfill

[gracchus]

@Otherbrother

Or perhaps you would have forgotten/lost the key, like one guy I know who got some bitcoin very early on just out of curiosity and never expected the price to increase so dramatically.

That’s pretty much what happened to me.

@gracchus

Out of curiosity (it was too early for financial speculation or “free”-market fanboi-ing) I put up a Bitcoin miner on a client’s spare server back in 2010 and promptly forgot about it and the wallet it was associated with about 9 months later. When I realised I might have made millions the miner and server it was chugging away on were long gone, but it might have gone the other way.

Easy come, easy go. I didn’t bet any actual money on it. And like you, I wouldn’t touch the stuff today.