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

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213 points aorloff | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.329s | source
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Synaesthesia ◴[05 Jul 25 05:50 UTC] No.44470362[source]▶
I was also around when bitcoin just started out. Many people wanted it to be a global revolution in finance.

But instead it turned into a game of "hodl" to get rich.

Scams were openly perpetrated in the forums.

I became completely disillusioned. What exactly does bitcoin offer the world today?

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1. lproven ◴[06 Jul 25 11:45 UTC] No.44479872[source]▶
> What exactly does bitcoin offer the world today?

An unrivalled opportunity to fleece the gullible, and for criminals to move assets around without law enforcement supervision.

That's about it. The three categories of users are hopeful fools, criminals, and scammers.

Of course, membership of any one group does not preclude membership of the others, and some are all 3.