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1. alecsm ◴[] No.44467721[source]
I wish I had access to my old wallet. I mined around 1.5BTC with my laptop and I deleted the wallet after a while because it was worthless.
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2. paulpauper ◴[] No.44467747[source]
you probably would have sold it at $100 or something anyway
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3. freedomben ◴[] No.44467767[source]
Yep. I used to pay my Dish Network bill with BTC. Youth is wasted on the young and hindsight is 20/20
4. twright ◴[] No.44467779[source]
This is definitely something I remind myself of for any investment I sell and later on explodes. For bitcoin there were way too many highs that I definitely would have sold at.
5. alecsm ◴[] No.44468944[source]
I know, that's why I'd like to have the wallet now :)

Even if BTC hits 1 million in the future, 150k now would be life changing.

6. userbinator ◴[] No.44469820[source]
I think many others, including me, have also the same experience of mining a few and then either forgetting or deleting them because they thought it'd never turn out to be worth anything.
7. qingcharles ◴[] No.44470191[source]
Same. I mined 32 BTC circa ~2010-2011. Then I did a clean install and forgot I had everything saved on the HDD and nothing written down. I remember them being worth about $1 a pop at the time and thought "fuck it", but I never bothered minting any more.
8. amjnsx ◴[] No.44470726[source]
Has it ever been worthless (post pizza guy). There’s always been someone who will give you some fiat for them.