A Guy Who Threw Out A Hard Drive With Bitcoins On It That Would Now Be Worth $3.4 Million Might Have A Regret Or Two

Daily Mail – A man has shared his grief after he unknowingly threw out a portable hard drive seven years ago which is now worth $4.8 million [Australian, currently $3.4 million US].

Campbell Simpson, editor of technology website Gizmodo Australia, says he missed out on incredible riches because he jettisoned a piece hardware containing 1400 Bitcoins, a form of internet currency.

Seven years later, the digital market for Bitcoin skyrocketed and Mr Simpson’s seemingly insignificant internet cash, which he bought for $25, is now worth millions of dollars.

Here’s some of his Twitter dump on the fairly substantial fuckup:

The full Twitter thread is here and incredibly longwinded as one might get when opining about losing several million dollars but you get the point. There’s been a lot of talk about Bitcoin this week at Barstool and across the globe and a lot of people have no clue what it is. But the main thing you need to know is right now a LOT of fucking nerds are getting rich as hell off of it. I have a buddy who talked about Bitcoin to me years ago and it sounded like some sort of Reddit nerd fever dream, an anonymous currency not attached to government regulations that exists because computers solve complex algorithms. And just the other day was Bitcoin Pizza Day, the anniversary of when the first ever real life transaction using Bitcoins occurred:

And with Bitcoin currently at $2,400 US, that pizza is now worth $24,000,000. It’s like not real life numbers. So with that you’ll have tales of people getting stupid rich and you’ll have tales like this poor Aussie fella who could have had his life completely changed and, instead, tossed it in the trash without any idea what he was doing. It’s all so unprecedented. I bought some Bitcoin and Ethereum, another cryptocurrency, a few weeks back after a buddy mentioned it was going up and since then it’s gone up sometimes hundreds of dollars a day. Is it going to be worth $40,000 in a year? Is it going to be worth zero and become illegal somehow? I have no fucking clue. But one thing is for certain…If it doesn’t end well for me, I will not share this gentleman’s sunny disposition: