Bitcoin Forum

So I was sort of "spring cleaning" through my tech, old MacBooks and what not and I realized I had a bitcoin wallet stored on my last Macbook from 2012 and found 300 bitcoins just hanging out. What a nice surprise!

Share the wealth  ;)

Make sure they're safe. Keep them offline.

If it was 3000 bitcoins maybe lol.

Lucky you!  Don't spend them ;)

That is for sure!

Just recently, I started thinking of all the places I had some bitcoin. After racking my brain, etc. i found a couple gambling places where i just had a couple coins.. but hey, the few coins I found was only worth about 100 bucks when I transfered them, but today they are worth almost 1k... glad I found them.. There is still one bitcoin that I cant seem to find, but hey, im just glad I found the ones that I did...

I wonder how many people did that? when bitcoin was only a couple bucks, sold their computer with their wallet with what was then worth only a few bucks but now worth a lot more..

That must of made your day when you found those 300 coins.. Thats like finding 60k under your mattress, lol...

Seriously! I'm going through all my data and what not trying to remember things and see if I can find more money in these digital mattresses.

i wish i am that lucky

wow, lucky! :D

I'd be happy to find like 5 extra BTC for a new PC :< I remember checking Bitcoin at its start, but unfortunately I never mined or bought some

grats on your found coins!  i made a paper wallet with 20 coins on it and hid them in my treasure safe when that was only like 60 bucks. i forgot all about it until august, so funny i was doing an inventory of my silver and a sheet of computer paper is worth almost as much as the metal.

yeah, I've got into  bitcoin in early 2011, but believed the fud "idiots are paying for random numbers, this has to die soon"
now I'm living in a shitty appartement, with minimum subsistence and every day I think "why didn't I bother backup this "worthless wallet" on a wortheles cd?" I had the empty cds within reach, but couldn't be bothered to backup my wallet when I threw away my pc.... If i hadn't been so dumb this day, I would live in my own house now, instead of killing off the fungi growing in the walls on a daily basis.....
I think the days of getting rich are over, and bitcoin will maybe tenfold in worth, and not thousandfold as it did before, but just in case I will keep one btc.
Don't make my mistake folks, always backup

sorry for this maybe inlegible, and maybe ot post, but I'm straight drunk, and very sad *cry*

I wish I would have bought more than I did! Could have genuinely made millions then haha. But with as much as I did, I never imagined them to even have doubled or tripled in value back then.

Wow, pretty awesome find.

So many lost coin stories though. Smells to me the number is millions lost, not just 100.000.

Which brings me to another point, isn't it a shame that the inactive coins are going to have an effect on the worth of bitcoins (or am i wrong and the market will found out that the coins are missing and adjust automatically?). I wish there was a way to "deactivate" them and make the rest worth more.

Nice find, I might try the same. You never know, maybe I knew about Bitcoin sonner than I think  :)

Hindsight's a bitch

Haven't decided what to do as of yet. I just recently cashed out the majority of my holdings from 2 years ago.

You are so lucky, what if you had sold it or reinstall your window :)

This is one of few ways to be bit-rich, find your bitcoins after forgetting them. It would be nice if I found my Bitcoins now (or in five years) instead of selling at $2 or $15 or $50.

Can we see? :)
Addresses or transaction ID's?
Such a pleasant surprise!

Was an offline wallet I totally forgot about from my early days of trying bitcoin. Funny because I bought a whole bunch more on my newer laptop probably 2 months later that I eventually then sold and cashed out of bitcoin almost entirely this year. Definitely forgetting about them would be the best way, no itchy trigger finger if you can't remember you had them haha.

Bitcoin is probably once in a life time thing for me, my close friends and family have always benefited since my first Bitcoin cash out.

Well done!

I heard that someone just got 150 bitcoins stolen ... luck and misfortune every day ::)

awesome find!! :) good job.

Nice!
I used to have a wallet back in the day with 30BTC then i forgot the dam password.  It happens when you're a noobie in the beginning of the early BTC years.  Then after like 2 years, out of no where I remember the password and btc was like $200 plus at the time before the crash.

Sonofabitch!

lol wow. Really nice!

I envy you !!!  :'(

Congratulations on not throwing them out :P. Wish i bought in early...

I just checked my girlfriends mtgox account from when I gave her 50btc to trade with. I remembered thrre being 102 in the account, so she withdrew 100 (limit) and we left the rest. Checkrd it today at was actually 9btc....sweet!

nice, I sold my netbook from late 2010, after I downloaded and played with bitcoin mining, well at least I wiped the computer clean and sold it...

Awesome find!

Extremely cool. Fair play to you!

Haha I love when this happens.  Never found 300 though.  I have 2 wallets with forgotten passes that total about 12 BTC, tried that service with no luck, found 2 in some casino site ( got 'em at 3USD ) in april, 6 on an old HDD a few months ago, and bunch of other small stuff.  Had so many when they were worth under $10 I was like hood-rich with them, sending everywhere.  ADHD+BTC=LOL

You are soo lucky! Just a bit less than 60.000$ ;)

That must feel awesome! Just like when I found 5000 SEK under my bed once, except that your find was worth a lot more!

http://bitcoin100.org/

Congratulations!

If you feel like sharing, you know how to find me! :P


Enjoy!

The most I've ever found in a neglected wallet was 0.01 BTC. lol.

officially cashed out all but 100btc of it. See maybe how far that 100btc might go in the future, plus that number is growing with the more cigars I sell through bitcoin.

You might be able to buy Detroit with that.  ;)

This makes me want to go back and look through all my old hd's I have in storage for some reason.  Thanks for the fun project!  lol

haha yes!

Now I am starting to get a little antsy with the rush in price lately. Don't want it to burst on me lol

now I'm thinking back to 2010 and 11 and want to go back in time and invest all my money into BTC

haha, trust me I wish so too when it was literally like ah what the heck whats another 50 bucks lol

Check out his cigar thread, he has been sharing the wealth, of another kind.  Best deal you are likely to find.

Satoshi, the time traveler.

Wow, 300 bitcoins :o
I wish i knew about bitcoins sooner so i could have a few misplaced wallets  :D

I checked the pockets of an old suit of mine found £2.10p and 3 Tic-taks ....  If you don't know what tic-Taks are don't worry it doesn't make the story any more exciting  :(

Share the wealth, don't be greedy.

Thanks!

Just buy some coins now :) wait for it to get to 100,000 or 1 mil :)

On a plus note it's character building to know what it's like to live without a lot of money for a little time

Shared some time with the City Attorney here over these.  I always follow the advice of my lawyers, and they advised that contraband ought be destroyed without delay, and that the most effective method was by burning. 
Deep conversation worth far more than I could have afforded to pay for followed this.  Possibly the best investment of the year was that hour of our time together.  It wouldn't have been the same without your efforts, so I am in your debt.

Just know that what you do ripples out into the world and has many positive effects.

Time traveler, the satoshi.

Wow! Great to hear

share the wealth at least 5%

Tic-Tacs are yummy... and bad for your teeth. ;D

The days of getting rich are over, they said. Bitcoin will never reach $10, they said. ;D

Never say never! Notice the size of the corrections we've been having lately? Bitcoin is still as volatile as penny stocks, even after hundredfolding. It has a huge amount of potential (including going to zero, of course, but that's why the insane bitcoin RoI is not "free moniez").

but still yummy.  :P

I think many can become quite rich still off bitcoin or at least make huge returns they wouldn't maybe ever had the chance of making. I can see bitcoin reaching $500 a bitcoin and you could have purchased it literally just in the past few weeks at 200 a bitcoin and you could be selling it at quite a return already. If you don't have a lot to put into bitcoin, I don't think you'll become rich off of it in the same way that people who bought bitcoin for dollars and were able to turn it around for anywhere from 100-300 per bit coin. But you never know.
Definitely if you have a thousand or a few thousand to spend on bitcoin now, I don't think you are going to turn that into retirement, but it will likely do more for you than any other investment, mutual fund, stocks, etc. that you could possibly get into.

Great to hear, but it would be greater to get some wealth

Today was a crazy day when I really regretted selling those 200 bitcoins of the 300 I found. ugh. Well at least I am gathering up bitcoins now for a while again and the value has risen a lot since then.

if yo usold 200 today, you probably made $100,000 USD.. that has basically come out of nowhere to you recently. i think you could be way worse off  :D

Boy did it hurt though haha.