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This is how much money you'd have today if you invested $100 in Bitcoin when it started
Regrets, I’ve had a few
Bitcoin OG sells half of his wallet after 12 years for an astronomical 31,250% profit
This Bitcoin OG just sold half of his wallet after 12 years and made more than a little profit. In fact, he has made an astronomical amount of money – to the tune of a 31,250 percent return on investment. The sale has seen the OG make an absolute fortune from the sale. And it […]
Man who told everyone to buy just $1 of Bitcoin in 2013 now lives an incredible life after his prophecy came true
How has life gone for him in the last decade?
Idaho man became the youngest Bitcoin millionaire at 18 after making his first $1,245 investment at just 12 years old
He’s made a whole lot of money
Florida man accidentally made the most costly fast food order in history after paying $920,626,747 in Bitcoin for two pizzas
In one of the biggest fumbles in finance and tech history, Florida man Laszlo Hanyecz bought a two-pizza Papa Johns order with Bitcoin, now worth $920,626,747, making it the most costly fast food order in history. Nobody could have predicted what Bitcoin was going to become. Even the most ambitious miners would never have predicted […]
Ex-Binance CEO sold his apartment in 2014 to buy 1,500 Bitcoin and his mom called him 'stupid', now it's worth huge amount
A crazy decision at the time, but it paid off big time
California man who's put $5 a day into Bitcoin shares what it's like 429 days in
It’s a very good strategy
Man who gave up on recovering lost Bitcoin in UK landfill says goodbye to $1 billion
It must be heart-breaking
Man forgot he invested $22 in Bitcoin and came back to mind-blowing amount when he remembered years later
He had no idea he was sitting on a fortune
Man regains access to his $3M Bitcoin wallet after 11 years thanks to hacker offering solution
Not all hacking stories are bad
Man has just two guesses left to recover his $790M in Bitcoin or lose it forever
After forgetting the password to his encrypted USB drive, Swiss businessman Stefan Thomas has just two guesses left to recover his $777M Bitcoin empire, or lose it forever. Forgetting a password is a headache. Even going through the ‘Forgotten password’ emails is a pain in the backside, and sometimes enough to put people off even […]
The amount of Bitcoin these 3 people lost adds up to an astonishing $2 billion
Imagine knowing you missed out on billions of dollars
Man who's been putting $5 a day into Bitcoin shows what it's like 323 days in
A good strategy, but we bet there’s something this guy wishes he’d done differently
Tesla loses out on billions of dollars by dumping 75% of its Bitcoin at the worst time
The timing wasn’t great
Man who was given over $830m in Bitcoin in 2011 when it was worth just thousands lost his password to access it
In what sounds like the heartbreaking crypto sketch in The Big Bang Theory, one man has lost access to his $829m Bitcoin empire that he started with a few thousand dollars in 2011. Back as kids, we used to throw pennies into a jar in the hope that enough spare change would amount to a […]