This month that bitcoin has risen abruptly compared to the previous months, a lot of people have created new topics asking for help about their funds. For example
this gentleman appeared out of nowhere after 9 years that had bought bitcoins and created a new thread, explaining that
he found a paper wallet that was damaged in his closet. And now I'm asking myself, why now? Let's assume that he had bought 100 bitcoins in 2012. By 2016, he would have a great fortune. By the end of 2017 an even bigger.
Don't they read the news? Because if I had bought that amount of coins a decade ago, I'm sure that I'd see out of curiosity how well it has gone. Since the paper wallet was in his closet, it means that he didn't care that much.
Another
bad example is
this thread in which
iwoswinvs (who is probably a liar) announces on a forum that he owns 50,000 bitcoins. I think there are more people like the first one, though.
Such stories may well be, since people may have previously mined bitcoins and then switched to other activities. Life is very difficult and in it you often have to do not what you want, but what regularly brings food for the family. Now, when the news media talk about the cosmic prices that bitcoin has reached, many are beginning to remember the bitcoins they have held for a long time. Therefore, such stories are quite logical.