HODL to the max.
Honestly spending $210 000 on crypto in 2011 was a ridiculously risky move. No way the guy knew what he was doing, just tremendous luck (and just as much fucking stupidity)
Was extremely easy to mine them then, I did on my shitty desktop
This guy had fuck you money already. Probably a multimillionaire at a minimum back then.
Probably lost the wallet and forgot about it, and found the USB drive while moving furniture.
Thats the story behind most extreme wealth, random luck.
We just dont here much of most who didn’t have radom luck. e.g imagine a guy buying a lottery ticket, and he wins a $200million, we’d here the story, we don’t see interviews with people who bought a ticket and then lost.
OP doesn’t know purchase cost. Wallet deposit on that date doesn’t mean it was purchased 1 hour before.
Or he was already rich.
He was probably a foreign agent or government. BTC was invented and supported so spies could move money across borders without being caught by official government bodies/banks. Esp since a lot of spies do things like illegal drug trafficking, gun trafficking, human trafficking, etc. That’s why BTC was so popular on 4chan early on -4chan recently was hacked
and it was confirmed there were government emails registered on the site.this last part is not true, it has been debunked, I still think that is why 4chan had BTC ads from users constantly so early though.There’s also slave groups of people forced to scam for crypto, NPR did a story about it on Planet Money. It’s entirely possible they are imprisoned or those are otherwise spy lead networks
Source…? I feel like this needs sources.
Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/1253043749/pig-butchering-scam-crypto-tether
This article talks about how the CIA in crypto: https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-cia-is-deep-into-cryptocurrency-director-reveals/
This article outlines the general whispers that have been happening for a very long time that Satoshi (btc creator) was CIA, but no, it isn’t made up by me personally and it’s pretty credible of a theory with all the other info: https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/1229087
Source: his ass
Tin foil trust me bro
Inb4 it’s confirmed to’ve been funneled into neo-nazi orgs… 😅
Or Russia or something. But same difference I guess.
That’s only two of them, yep.
“worth”
That’s literally the exact amount of USD you can exchange it for, so it is literally worth exactly that amount
Sell 8 billion dollars worth of anything, and you’re gonna have a hell of a lot less than 8 billion dollars.
Because you’ll flood the market, at that volume a potentially irreversible drop in price.
It’s basic economics, but you are defending crypto…
That’s nonsense because then you’re just saying the word “worth” doesn’t mean anything when it comes to anything besides unique items
you think 8 billion would drop bitcoin irreversibly
bitcoin itself does 9 billion in volume daily
also the worth is simply the stated value at the time, it obviously doesn’t take into account market liquidity as that would be difficult to measure, but you’d know this and not bother pointing it out because that’d look silly right
