The user found lost bitcoins for $ 4.2 million

The student said that he found a wallet key on an old computer, on which 127 BTC were stored.He gotthis cryptocurrency in 2011 for completing simple tasks.

Reddit user under a pseudonymBitcoinHolderThankU revealed that it regained access to the bitcoin wallet, which it lost in 2011, after forgetting about it. BitcoinHolderThankU is known to be a student. Arriving at his relatives for the Christmas holidays, he found a digital key to a wallet on an old computer, which contained 127 BTC. Later, BitcoinHolderThankU sold the cryptocurrency, raising $ 4.2 million.

BitcoinHolderThankU said that he neverbought bitcoins. He earned them in 2011 by completing surveys and other tasks to buy items in a computer game. At that time, it was possible to get cryptocurrency for free, for example, for passing a captcha. Such actions were carried out by various sites and projects to popularize digital assets and attract new users.

BitcoinHolderThankU clarified that he sold bitcoinsin early January at the rate of $ 34,000 per coin. He attached a photo with a wallet whose balance exceeds $ 4.2 million.The user noted that he could have made $ 1 million more if he had waited several days to sell the coins, as the price of BTC rose to $ 42 thousand.

In June, another Reddit user reported thataccidentally accessed 533 bitcoins. He found his old laptop, which was supposed to store the digital key from a private wallet. However, the investor later said that the computer did not have a hard drive on which the key was stored.

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