Brad Staggs brings a story about a guy that forgot that he bought bitcoin back in 2009. Kristoffer Koch invested 150 kroner ($26.60) in 5,000 bitcoins in 2009, after discovering them during the course of writing a thesis on encryption. He promptly forgot about them until widespread media coverage of the anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency in April 2013 jogged his memory. In those four years, his Bitcoin holding had become worth around $886,000 -- a rather nice gain on the original outlay.
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