In 2011 you could visit this website and claim 5 Bitcoin for free

    by scp766

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    1. That would be 450k today.

      Depending on when in the year we are talking, it could have been worth between 1 and 25$ back then.

    2. $458,240 at the current price. But almost all of us would have sold it long before it got to its high price. And it’s stuff like this that helped get bitcoin out there in the marketplace

    3. Yeah I remember visiting this website when I was a kid, there were many sites just like this one.
      I actually had a wallet in my old computer with a little bit more than 8 bitcoins.
      Of course at some point I bought a new laptop, threw the old one away, and now those 8 bitcoins are gone. I was a kid and did not write any password or anything like that, for me it was kind of a game, so the wallet is unrecoverable. It is just a fun anecdote to explain now.

    4. Oh man that’s probably where I got mine. I know I had a free bitcoin that I lost. Could have been 5 instead. Sure could use that money. My luck i would have spent it before the value went crazy.

    5. On 2011 we could buy appliances that didn’t need to be connected to the internet to function. And now today companies can change the terms of the sale whenever they want to remove functionality or require a subscription to work

    6. I bought 10 at 2500 like 8 years ago. 9 years ago it was a couple hundred ish. Wished I would a bought them sooner

      Still sitting on them

    7. Five million years ago you could claim land for free that’s now worth a few millions 

    8. The first transaction in Bitcoin was in 2010 – two pizzas for 10k bitcoins.

      And quit whining. You know you’d have sold yours as soon as they were worth $1 each, and thought you’d made a killing and gotten out just in time.

      What are we going to do when the entire world economy is backed by nothing but units of digital currency that fluctuate in value according to how much someone else wants them? This does not seem like a stable economic model, though we’re not far from it at the moment as things stand. Which, come to think of it, probably explains a lot more than I think.

    9. I remember being in this page. Out of curiosity. But never did it. If I did try it. Those coins are lost forever.

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