Comment by hnfong
2 years ago
1900s grandfather: I buried a sack of gold coins in my backyard.
2000s grandfather: The computer that I used to mine bitcoin is probably in the pile of junk inside the garage.
2 years ago
1900s grandfather: I buried a sack of gold coins in my backyard.
2000s grandfather: The computer that I used to mine bitcoin is probably in the pile of junk inside the garage.
> The computer that I used to mine bitcoin is probably in the pile of junk inside the garage
It's funny because it's true: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55658942
Maybe "true" isn't the best word to use. There are too many stories like this for them all to be true. Great story though.
At that time you even had bitcoin faucets that gave you 0.5-1-5 btc to play around. Or you could just run a miner on your gpu and get 50btc if you ran it for a few days or so - a ton of people probably have those on some partition on an old laptop or sth.
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LMAO. I have about 150 Bitcoins sitting on an old hard drive at the bottom of the local dump. I guess someone would try to dig them up if it ever hits a million, but doubtful they could recover them much less unlock them.