Crypto
He’s made a whole lot of money
In one of the biggest fumbles in finance and tech history, Florida man Laszlo Hanyecz bought a two-pizza Papa Johns order with Bitcoin, now worth $920,626,747, making it the most costly fast food order in history. Nobody could have predicted what Bitcoin was going to become. Even the most ambitious miners would never have predicted […]
A crazy decision at the time, but it paid off big time
It’s a very good strategy
It must be heart-breaking
He had no idea he was sitting on a fortune
Not all hacking stories are bad
After forgetting the password to his encrypted USB drive, Swiss businessman Stefan Thomas has just two guesses left to recover his $777M Bitcoin empire, or lose it forever. Forgetting a password is a headache. Even going through the ‘Forgotten password’ emails is a pain in the backside, and sometimes enough to put people off even […]
Imagine knowing you missed out on billions of dollars
A good strategy, but we bet there’s something this guy wishes he’d done differently
The timing wasn’t great
In what sounds like the heartbreaking crypto sketch in The Big Bang Theory, one man has lost access to his $829m Bitcoin empire that he started with a few thousand dollars in 2011. Back as kids, we used to throw pennies into a jar in the hope that enough spare change would amount to a […]
Bitcoin has just reached a new all-time high ahead of what some people call Crypto Week. Ordinarily, crypto week refers to some weeks of the year that are densely packed with crypto events. But, on this occasion, it’s about something else entirely. And there’s also more news that made investors feel bullish. DISCOVER SBX CARS: The […]
Not bad as far as investments go
You have to feel for the guy