Bitcoin Millionaires

[frizzers]

Hello,
 
My first post here.

My name is Dominic Frisby. I am a comedian and author from the UK. I write a column for Moneyweek, host this podcast and made this Debt Bomb video which some of you may have seen - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcLVDhS8fM )
 
I'm a long-time anti-fiat money campaigner - and I made this vid on the subject way back when ( http://commoditywatch.podbean.com/ )
 
Anyway I have begun work on a book about Bitcoin ( http://unbound.co.uk/books/bitcoin ) which I am hoping will be the first book by a recognized publisher on the subject. It is being crowd-funded. (and you can fund it with BTC if you want - http://dominicfrisby.com/news/the-future-of-money/pay-with-bitcoin-for-bitcoin-the-future-of-money ).
 
The reason I am posting, is that I am looking for some good Bitcoin millionaire stories - people who became BTC millionaires by accident and so on.
 
I promise full confidentiality, changed names and all the rest of it, but if you have a bitcoin millionaire story - please could you get in touch?
 
Do you have such a story - please let me know here ( http://dominicfrisby.com/archive/send-me-an-email )
 
With thanks
 
DF

PS I can't work out how to insert hyperlinks. Agh.

[1000000]

What's a bitcoin millionaire for you? A person with more than 1,000,000 BTC?

[kakobrekla]

people who became BTC millionaires by accident and so on.

Noone become millionaire by accident. If we exclude the illegitimate ways, even mining for a day or two in 2009 and forgetting about them until today is the right thing to do, not an accident.

On the other hand they is a lot, and I do mean A LOT of stories of people who could have become that and didn't cause stupid for the most part. You should cover those, educationally.

[Stevets]

What's a bitcoin millionaire for you? A person with more than 1,000,000 BTC?

No, it's someone with a million Satoshi.

[Baitty]

What's a bitcoin millionaire for you? A person with more than 1,000,000 BTC?

No, it's someone with a million Satoshi.

1 Bitcoin? Good question actually what do you consider a millionaire. A person with enough btc which converts into 1 million fiat or 1 million Bitcoin itself?

[frizzers]

I meant someone who has made a lot of money out of BTC - 1 million bucks or something. Enough significantly change their life.

And, yes, you make a good point - there is a story to be told about those who sold too early.

From its first exchange price at 1,300 to 1USD, bitcoin was a million bagger for somebody!

[keithers]

I don't necessarily think that having a net worth of 1 mill makes you a millionaire...  maybe 5-10mill...or maybe as low as 2-3 mill..  I could be wrong, but when I think of millionaire, I think of more than 1 million...

[DannyHamilton]

I don't necessarily think that having a net worth of 1 mill makes you a millionaire...  maybe 5-10mill...or maybe as low as 2-3 mill..  I could be wrong, but when I think of millionaire, I think of more than 1 million...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire

A millionaire (originally and sometimes still millionnaire[1]) is an individual whose net worth or wealth is equal to or exceeds one million units of currency.

In general, 5-10 million (or even 2-3 million) is commonly known as "multi-millionaire".

[BittBurger]

LOL i can't believe this whole thread so far is about "What do you mean by a Millionaire"

Obviously he means you had a bunch of Bitcoin, preferably by investing little to no money, then one day woke up and had the equivalent of a million US Dollars or more.

And then an even better variation of the story is that you cashed out and bought your own Jet.

Seems pretty obvious that's what he's looking for.  Success stories!

-B-

[BitcoinBarrel]

I would consider someone a Bitcoin millionaire if they had over 100 BTC, and especially over 1000 BTC.

[bananas]

officially a millionary is one who owns one million dollars

[xinzark]

What's a bitcoin millionaire for you? A person with more than 1,000,000 BTC?

I don think theres some one with 1M BTC out there 

[seanwilliam1988]

That’s a very interesting scoop. I already read a lot of stories about bitcoin millionaires. Maybe you could find some informative stuff at bitcoindaily.com that will help you on your writings.

[xyzxyzxyz]

Olivier Janssens, bitcoin foundation member, pays for private jet by btc.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-millionaire-olivier-janssens-private-jet-privatefly/

Lily Allen turned down 100,000 btc to do concert in second life in 2009.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lily-allen-calls-herself-an-idiot-for-declining-bitcoin-payment-now-worth-millions-9046211.html

Mark Karpeles estimated to have 345,000 btc.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/mtgox/

[elianite]

Looking forward to this book; I'll certainly be buying a copy! Also; please donate one to the Bitcoin Museum at https://www.thebitcoinmuseum.com/ !

[xyzxyzxyz]

Good article on Charlie Shrem

http://www.vocativ.com/12-2013/night-bitcoin-millionaire-proud-stoner-charlie-shrem/


Also search redditt there are a lot of life changing stories there.

[CryptoPanda]

I'm a bitcoin millionaire.

[LouReed]

I meant someone who has made a lot of money out of BTC - 1 million bucks or something. Enough significantly change their life.

And, yes, you make a good point - there is a story to be told about those who sold too early.

From its first exchange price at 1,300 to 1USD, bitcoin was a million bagger for somebody!

More interesting would be, not people who sold too early, but people that mined say 10,000+ Bitcoin, and then forgot about it and maybe reformatted their HDD or something like that. I think there was a story of a guy who had a HDD with a large amount of Bitcoin on it, and he threw it away, and went digging through the dump. Ouch!!

Edit: Yep, here's the article on the guy who threw out his HDD. 7500 Bitcoin mined on a laptop!! Those were the days, LOL!!

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/27/hard-drive-bitcoin-landfill-site

[hilariousandco]

A Bitcoin millionaire is somebody who has over a million £ or $ in Bitcoins. I think Satoshi is the only Bitcoin billionaire, or he was at least.

I would consider someone a Bitcoin millionaire if they had over 100 BTC, and especially over 1000 BTC.

How would that make them a millionaire? 1000BTC is currently £371,700.

[whtchocla7e]

A millionaire? I'm pretty sure you need to have 1 million bitcoins to qualify as a millionaire.
There can be at most 21 bitcoin millionaires at any given time.