Alex Jones lost 10 thousand bitcoins, which Max Kaiser gave him back in 2011.
He talks about his lossadmitted during the Flagrant 2 podcast.Ten years ago, when the first cryptocurrency cost less than $5, RT presenter Max Keyser gave Alex 10 thousand coins and assured him that this was the currency of the future.
Now, after Bitcoin has recovered above $ 56,000, the fortune is estimated at $ 560 million, Alex said sadly.
Keizer confirmed that he gave Jones a cryptocurrency 10 years ago, noting that BTC was trading below $ 5 at the time.
The number of coins lost by unlucky hodlers is growing every year. Today, about 20% of all existing BTC is considered lost (approximately $ 140 billion).
At the beginning of the year we wrote about a British man whothrew out a hard drive with 7,500 BTC, which at the current exchange rate is estimated at $420 million. A little earlier, a programmer from the USA spoke about the fact that he had lost the password for a wallet with 7002 BTC.
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