In 2011 you could claim 5 free bitcoin from a website. (www.tumblr.com)

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How much is that worth now?

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[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago

Back when bitcoin mining was a novelty that was still feasible on a decent graphics card, I mined seven bitcoins. I kept everything on an external spinning rust drive. In the process of a move, the external drive was lost to wherever shit goes when you move house.

I've never figured out what happened to it, and for a long time I looked for it. When I used to drink booze I would get buzzed on an occasional weekend and look through my storage unit.

It'll never show back up, and like a lot of things in my life is so far in the past that it is of no use to get all hot n bothered about it. Ships in the night, or whatever.

[-] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

I looked into mining, and I could've earned 5-6 btc a month, at the time about $3 a coin so I decided against it.

Thing is if I had, I was just a high schooler and would've cashed it out to get dominos pizza or whatever

[-] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

I think I cashed out the $100 of Bitcoin I had to help pay for a PS3. Today it would be worth like $15k

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 days ago

I spent like $100 on acid back when it was ~$2500 back in the day, oopsies!

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

I only had like 1.5 because i grabbed a basic CPU miner and ran it on all the computers in my highschool computer lab for a bit.

Mine was on an old laptop with ubuntu on it that is long gone. I also spent a bit too long looking for it

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

I have probably less than 1BTC from mining a thousand years ago. I haven't looked for it yet but I'm sure I will eventually lol.

[-] Aradino@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

I once had 11 bitcoin in a wallet from these.

Sucks, but I'd have spent it before it was worth millions anway so

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The best advice I ever gave to people was "buy $100-$1000 in Bitcoin and forget about it. Just put the wallet info in a safe deposit box and don't ever look at it."

This was back in like 2012, no one actually did it because they thought I was a dumb kid, but 10 years later they all came up to me and said "fuck, if I listened to you back then I'd have $5M right now". Since most of them only read WSJ and shit, so they wouldn't have heard anything about it till it was worth a ton.

BTC has always been a bag holding scam, but if you had the cash to burn it was definitely a fun gamble to make.