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Curiosities about cryptoworld - Fortune turns to misfortune

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The famous pizza case

On May 22, 2010, a Hungarian developer living in Florida, László Hanyecz, paid 10,000 Bitcoins for two Papa Jones pizzas. The amount was worth only 25 USD that time. How much is it worth now? I dare not count!

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How did the Bitcoin pizza transaction take place? On May 18, 2010, Hanyecz posted a post on the BitcoinTalk forum about exchanging 10,000 of his bitcoins for pizza. At that time, there were no direct Bitcoin-accepting service providers, so he could only buy indirectly for bitcoin. He had to wait a long, four days for his offer.

Another enthusiastic cryptocurrency user, Jeremy Sturdivan (alias jercos) accepted the offer and had already flown the pizzas to Hanyecz.

*Why is this pizza business important? The purchase of pizza has proven that Bitcoin has a worldly utility and can be used as an alternative to buying products instead of currencies such as the dollar, euro or forint.

*This date has gone down in history!
Over the years, a real cult has developed around the anniversary, as it helps many people understand where Bitcoin started in 2009-2010. It is also a reminder of the headwinds he had to perform in the early years and the amount of investment opportunities for many.

...so watch out for your code!

A U.S. programmer could have been a bitcoin billionaire for a long time if he didn’t lose the password to his digital wallet.

An American programmer told the New York Times how unfortunate it was not to become a bitcoin billionaire, even though he would have had the opportunity. A man named Stefan Thomas has a digital wallet with lots of bitcoin, but a password to access the cryptocurrency, he lost it.

Thomas got a 7002 bitcoin a decade earlier, which he got for a video on a topic. The programmer had to make a video of the danger of cryptocurrencies, for which he was symbolically paid in such a currency.

The price of bitcoin has risen significantly over time, so the money held in the IronKey wallet is now worth about $ 240 million, or about $ 71 billion. However, without the code needed to open it, nothing, bitcoin, can only be extracted from it.

Thomas said he wrote the line of code that opened the disc on a piece of paper, but he didn't know where it went, and he didn't make a copy of it. Alex Stamos, a former Facebook security chief, was also told about the man’s calvary, who offered to crack the wallet hiding fabulous wealth in exchange for a 10 percent stake.

The New York Times mentions that Stefan Thomas is not the only potential bitcoin millionaire who does not have access to his money. In 2013, a man in Wales accidentally threw a 7,500 bitcoin hard drive in the trash, which he then tried to find at a local landfill, unsuccessfully.

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