Probably lost the wallet and forgot about it, and found the USB drive while moving furniture.
ddplf@szmer.info 1 day ago
Honestly spending $210 000 on crypto in 2011 was a ridiculously risky move. No way the guy knew what he was doing, just tremendously lucky (and fucking stupid)
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ryannathans@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
Was extremely easy to mine them then, I did on my shitty desktop
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Sure it was easy to mine, but it was also worthless.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 day 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.
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Or he was already rich.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
OP doesn’t know purchase cost. Wallet deposit on that date doesn’t mean it was purchased 1 hour before.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
RazgrizOne@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Source…? I feel like this needs sources.
necrobius@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Source: his ass
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 18 hours 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
RazgrizOne@piefed.zip 11 hours 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.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
Tin foil trust me bro
phonics@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This guy had fuck you money already. Probably a multimillionaire at a minimum back then.