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HN in 50 years: wallet with $10 million in BitCoin from the mining era found.

by rjtavares 13y ago

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sebastianavina 13y ago
maybe in 50 years, new cpus or math advancements could brute force wallets and make bitcoins worthless...
- timmclean 13y ago
  maybe in 50 years, new chemistry advancements could turn water to gold and make gold worthless...
  - theandrewbailey 13y ago
    maybe in 50 years, we will be mining asteroids for precious metals...
    - pg_is_a_butt 13y ago
      maybe in 50 years, we will be mining precious metals for asteroids
    - TrainedMonkey 13y ago
      I am sure in 50 years it would be 2064 and we would be a decade away from fusion. Just kidding about fusion, I hope...
    - pavel_lishin 13y ago
      Maybe in 50 years, we'll be mining those asteroids and Saturn's rings for water.
    - fennecfoxen 13y ago
      "In space, a single platinum-rich 500 meter wide asteroid contains about 174 times the yearly world output of platinum, and 1.5 times the known world-reserves of platinum group metals (ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum)." -- Planetary Resources, http://www.planetaryresources.com/asteroids/composition/ http://www.planetaryresources.com/asteroids/composition/ (take with as many grains of salt as you feel like) But hey, I'm sure they can spare a mission to retrieve us some gold sooner or later. :P
      - brianbreslin 13y ago
        I am sure Elon Musk is working on this...
      - theandrewbailey 13y ago
        With that much/many valuable metals there, there would have to be plenty of gold, too. I have no doubt that gold will be mined and retrieved, because it has industrial value. Not to mention its incredible economic value, and because gold.
  - evan_ 13y ago
    Maybe in 50 years clean water will be as precious as the rarest diamond...
J0415 13y ago
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5156246/7-5-million-bitcoins-on-hard-drive-thrown-away-in-uk http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5156246/7-5-million-bitco...
chc 13y ago
I doubt anyone from this era has a wallet with 100000000000 BTC.
willary 13y ago
Actually worth 50$ but is sold for $10 million because it belonged to known outlaw and cyber criminal Mark Karpeles
chippy 13y ago
would the electronics / magnetic storage thingys survive that far into the future if it was outside?

HN in 50 years: wallet with $10 million in BitCoin from the mining era found.

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sebastianavina 13y ago

maybe in 50 years, new cpus or math advancements could brute force wallets and make bitcoins worthless...

timmclean 13y ago
maybe in 50 years, new chemistry advancements could turn water to gold and make gold worthless...
- theandrewbailey 13y ago
  maybe in 50 years, we will be mining asteroids for precious metals...
  - pg_is_a_butt 13y ago
    maybe in 50 years, we will be mining precious metals for asteroids
  - TrainedMonkey 13y ago
    I am sure in 50 years it would be 2064 and we would be a decade away from fusion. Just kidding about fusion, I hope...
  - pavel_lishin 13y ago
    Maybe in 50 years, we'll be mining those asteroids and Saturn's rings for water.
  - fennecfoxen 13y ago
    "In space, a single platinum-rich 500 meter wide asteroid contains about 174 times the yearly world output of platinum, and 1.5 times the known world-reserves of platinum group metals (ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum)." -- Planetary Resources, http://www.planetaryresources.com/asteroids/composition/ http://www.planetaryresources.com/asteroids/composition/ (take with as many grains of salt as you feel like) But hey, I'm sure they can spare a mission to retrieve us some gold sooner or later. :P
    - brianbreslin 13y ago
      I am sure Elon Musk is working on this...
    - theandrewbailey 13y ago
      With that much/many valuable metals there, there would have to be plenty of gold, too. I have no doubt that gold will be mined and retrieved, because it has industrial value. Not to mention its incredible economic value, and because gold.
- evan_ 13y ago
  Maybe in 50 years clean water will be as precious as the rarest diamond...

J0415 13y ago

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5156246/7-5-million-bitcoins-on-hard-drive-thrown-away-in-uk http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5156246/7-5-million-bitco...

chc 13y ago

I doubt anyone from this era has a wallet with 100000000000 BTC.

willary 13y ago

Actually worth 50$ but is sold for $10 million because it belonged to known outlaw and cyber criminal Mark Karpeles

chippy 13y ago

would the electronics / magnetic storage thingys survive that far into the future if it was outside?