• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      At least you are not the guy who threw away his bitcoin wallet, are you?

      James Howells, a Welsh IT engineer, mistakenly threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin (worth over £500 million/$900M+ as of 2025) in 2013

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        8 days ago

        Dude’s gone full tilt psychotic as a result and is selling shares to excavate the landfill it’s in (he’ll never find it intact and usable, but his life is forever ruined by his refusal to give up)

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            8 days ago

            Seriously, when he probably could have used that energy to grift like all the other shitcoin rug pulls.