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Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B

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191 points aorloff | 4 comments | 04 Jul 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.59s | source
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alecsm ◴[04 Jul 25 20:41 UTC] 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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1. paulpauper ◴[04 Jul 25 20:43 UTC] No.44467747[source]▶
you probably would have sold it at $100 or something anyway
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2. freedomben ◴[04 Jul 25 20:47 UTC] 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
3. twright ◴[04 Jul 25 20:48 UTC] 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.
4. alecsm ◴[04 Jul 25 23:46 UTC] 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.