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Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin and when did you first buy Bitcoins?
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moviebuff777
on 10/11/2016, 17:53:36 UTC
I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars.  Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?