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Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion
(www.morningstar.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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I mean, it's interesting for sure, in 2011 I think I hadn't even heard of BTC yet.
Silk road
If he made the Silk Road mostly to kickstart BTC, after buying a pile of BTC, and then waited till now to sell it - then he's kinda smart.
Who says human traffickers have to be dumb?