These stories always make a big assumption: That if he had not trashed it, he would have held onto it until it was actually worth $4.8M. The reality is that he

These stories always make a big assumption: That if he had not trashed it, he would have held onto it until it was actually worth $4.8M. The reality is that he (and everyone else) very likely would have sold out around $5k and proceeded to tell everyone who would listen how they made a killing with bitcoin. Its a "stock exchange" story that usually just factors down to "if only I'd done a rare and risky thing that no one else in their right mind would normally do (that only occurred to me because of an accident and with the benefit of hindsight), why, I'd be a millionaire now!"