Bitcoin investor who forgot he bought £17
 

[Bitcoin investor who forgot he bought £17
of the currency checks four years later to
find it is worth £551,000
Norwegian Kristoffer Koch discovered
the currency while writing a thesis
He had forgotten his password until this year
A bitcoin is currently worth about £122]


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One coin is worth £122



Life In The City

No way! The lucky bastard!

Doesn't bitcoin fund drug trafficking?..

How do you exchange bitcoin to real cash? Surely no bank would exchange it back?

in the same way the sterling and US dollar do, as in "they are used by some people who traffick drugs", yes...

I did mean was that not their primary purpose shaun?

In Canada they have a ATM
that does it.

http://www.koco.com/image/view/-/200...in-ATM-jpg.jpg