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At one point I had over 10,000 BTC in my BCS&T account. Do I get some sort of prize?

Are you the one who pay for the pizza?

No, he is the one that got arrested by the US authorities, unfortunately!
More info you can find here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=934268.0

Soo you may be the new healthy people that bitcoin has changed a life,but well there is just some people with such ammount ,but i believe you sold the most and now smiling with the easy money made with bitcoin.I may say you had the vision and well you lucky enought to have some part of those atleast or having fun with the fiat you earned with them.

Mate I suggest that you read once again at least some parts of the thread that I left! He wasn't that lucky whatsoever even though he had about 10,000 BTCs at the certain moment of the time!

I lost almost all of the 10,000 BTC in the collapse of BCS&T.

Then I recovered some by trading BTC on various exchanges. I managed to avoid losing any in the collapse of Mt. Gox. I did move a small amount of my trading onto localbitcoins.com just for fun and to meet other people interested in Bitcoins.

Due to my trading activity on localbitcoins.com I was investigated by Homeland Security for 18 months. At the end of 18 months of so called "investigation" the agent assigned to my case still did not know what my business did (electrical engineering, easy to just use Google) or had not discovered that my wife is in fact an attorney (also very easy to find out). Not much of an investigator.

They did several undercover operations where they bought and sold Bitcoins from me at various coffee shops and recorded the transactions on video. They spent a lot of money on the investigation and the undercover operations and found nothing having to do with what they were looking for: drugs and/or money laundering.

Because they had spent so much money already they then decided to arrest me anyway for the only thing they could dream up: "operating a business without a license" - which caries a five year prison sentence if you are convicted. They threw me in solitary confinement to try and break me, seized all my computers, seized all the Bitcoins and cash they found in my home at my corporate office and even at my client's offices.

After 9 months of negotiations with my attorney they dropped all the charges but only after I was forced to "donate" $40,000 in cash and $40,000 in Bitcoins to the Federal Asset Forfeiture slush fund.

The whole fiasco cost me almost $300,000 in attorney fees, forfeiture, lost work, lost clients, replacement computers, etc.

I still have some BTC but I am having to use them to pay off the debt (loans from friends and family and credit cards, second mortgage on the house, etc.)

You can read all about it here:

www.burtw.com
www.jmwagner.com

So, yes, Bitcoin has changed my life. I would never have gotten to experience Federal prison without them.

What a story Burt. Sorry for hear that all of this has happened to you. I am sure, that one day when Bitcoin becomes a daily thing for the most of the world, you will be able to write a book. This will be a bestseller, I am sure of it. What a story!

Maybe with the help of this book, you will be able to return at least some of your money spent!