Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet

ddplf@szmer.info ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• phonics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This guy had fuck you money already. Probably a multimillionaire at a minimum back then.

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• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably lost the wallet and forgot about it, and found the USB drive while moving furniture.

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was extremely easy to mine them then, I did on my shitty desktop

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure it was easy to mine, but it was also worthless.

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• hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• TankieTanuki@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or he was already rich.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  OP doesn’t know purchase cost. Wallet deposit on that date doesn’t mean it was purchased 1 hour before.

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• LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • RazgrizOne@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Source…? I feel like this needs sources.

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    • necrobius@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Source: his ass

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tin foil trust me bro

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Planet Money: www.npr.org/…/pig-butchering-scam-crypto-tether

      This article talks about how the CIA in crypto: vice.com/…/the-cia-is-deep-into-cryptocurrency-di…

      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: www.binance.com/en/square/post/1229087

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      • RazgrizOne@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The planet money piece is very long so I’ll have to check it out later, but the Vice article says nothing of the sort and actually spends time mocking people and saying it’s a conspiracy. So I’m not really sure how that at all supports what you’re saying. It just says CIA is interested in and involved in crypto, which makes sense given how it’s used. It does not say anything at all about them starting it or having a major hand in it.

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