I never got on with Bitcoin much despite reading about it around 2013. I figure I probably would have sold in one of the early spikes anyway, or lost it to Mt Gox. In 2010 when you had those 1000 BTC, how much would they have cost when you lost the HDD? Probably not much. So you could have bought more then cheaply, if you'd known.
They were pennies on the dollar at the time. Acquired in late '09 or early '10. I didn't even buy that initial 1000; they were part of a bounty someone had posted on what.cd for a certain upload- don't even remember what it was. Probably a limited edition metal album or a scan of some rare book I had. I uploaded a lot there. All I remember was the guy said they were the future and walked me through setting up a wallet, then transferred. Pretty much forgot about them until much later.
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