This is the story of an anonymous member who shared on Reddit; although the truth of the story is still unclear, it has been confirmed to be entirely true and has indeed attracted the attention of many members on this famous forum.
According to this Redditor, back in 2010, he was a young man who impulsively bought 10,000 Bitcoin like a gambling game. Specifically, after being persuaded by his college roommates, he spent about 50 British pounds to purchase 10,000 Bitcoin (the average price of each Bitcoin at that time was £0.005). It is important to emphasize that he stored his Bitcoin wallet keys on his laptop after transferring them from a USB drive.
Time passed, he graduated from college and started a new life, not even remembering that “small amount” of money.
By 2014, when Bitcoin cryptocurrency began to gain traction and was valued similarly to USD and other fiat currencies, he suddenly remembered the Bitcoin he had once purchased. Naturally, the first thing to do was to find the wallet key.
He rushed home and searched for his old broken laptop only to bitterly realize that his mother had “thrown it away to tidy up the house.” Meanwhile, the 10,000 Bitcoin he had then would now be worth £300 million (equivalent to over 9 trillion VND).
The young man wrote in a now-deleted post: “I literally fainted, I was angry, confused, shocked, in denial, sad, furious, and so many other emotions.”
He claimed that this horrific misfortune led him to be “mentally crushed” and depressed “almost every day” thinking about how he could have been a millionaire. He mentioned that he even became angry and irritable with his mother, blaming her for throwing away the laptop, which had been in a pile of the family’s “junk” for many years.
And despite efforts to get his life back on track, he stated that the rising value of Bitcoin only deepens his depression.
“I’m still disappointed, I still live with my parents, I go to a job I hate, and I have friends, but we don’t talk much, and my life now is nothing like it used to be,” he wrote.
He added that thoughts about the money lost still make him “sick to his stomach” and described it as a “long nightmare.”
Source: The Sun