He bought bitcoin at $ 10: he tells his decade of madness and this bet that changed his free life : Receive your full PDF guide

A Bitcoin bet that paid - the fantastic life paths to tell are not lacking among those who were interested in Bitcoin (BTC), from its first years of existence.This is the case of a user of the Reddit social network, who announces having fallen into Bitcoin in 2011, with all the emotional roller coaster that this implies.

5 BTC deleted to make room for a video game

You may have followed our incredible stories of the Taihuttu family or this Japanese restaurateur, who bet on Bitcoin in 2013.This had already allowed them to change their lives.But this is today the story of an earpter even earlier of the cryptocurrency created by Satoshi Nakamoto.

On Reddit, the user Graphene_hands tells us, in a long message, how his adventure with the King of the Cryptos started:

A few months later, the same year, he briefly had fun creating a Bitcoin wallet, to perceive a few cents (at the time) of Bitcoins via a facet: around 5 BTC, he says (the trifle of… $ 170,000 today).

But he quickly dropped this first experience, forever removing the Wallet (and his bitcoins) to "probably make room for a Steam video game".

2011: the first purchase and mining

It was a little after, in May 2011, that our friend fully converted to Bitcoin.At that time, he explained that he had devoted all his free time to study the creation of Satoshi Nakamoto:

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At that time, the MT Gox platform was essential to buy bitcoins against fiduciary money.He wanted to invest $ 500 to try to get a few BTCs, at 3 dollars per unit.

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Problem: the time that his money arrives on Mt Gox, our poor friend saw Bitcoin stop increasing.He was therefore taken from Fomo (the fear of missing a good deal).Thus, 3 days after he initiated his transfer of money, he was finally able to jump to Bitcoin (and too bad if his course was then on a higher historical).He bought 50 btc at 10 dollars room.

He always announces Hodler today these first BTC (he has, thank God, withdrawn from Mt Gox before the platform collapses), worth 1.7 million dollars when writing theselines.It leaves dreamy!

The next day, he plunged into Bitcoins mining with his graphics card (GPU) of the time: a Radeon 5970.Eh yes !The era of specialized asic machines had not yet started.

As it did not go fast enough, he bought another GPU, identical, a few days later.He thus managed to undermine 50 additional BTC in a month, before abandoning in view of the electricity bill.

And guess what he did!He's Hodl still almost 10 years later.

The story does not stop there however.2 years later, in 2013, Graphene_hands will begin to undermine Litecoin (LTC), and will also take the opportunity to buy a little bitcoins.In all, 30 additional BTC and more than 400 LTC entered his bag, and ... he is still the hodl today.

Do not hesitate to go and read the rest of its history, especially concerning the crazy period of 2017 (which allowed him to afford house and car with some cryptos purchased in the meantime), or the large hollow (and depress) periods oflowering/stagnant markets.Bitcoin is more than a new form of money: it is a whole adventure in itself.