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Re: Do you know about the first public servant paid in bitcoin ?
by
BlackBoss_
on 09/11/2023, 03:54:49 UTC
His name was Tony Vaughn and he was from Kentucky. He was paid his salary in bitcoin in 2013 , at time when very few even heard about bitcoin. If he would have not sold those bitcoins that he got as salary, he would might have been a billionaire by now. Because bitcoin price at that time was just $1000 a piece , so his wealth would have been about 30 times at current prices.
How much did he get in 2013?

It is important because it relates to how many bitcoins he received from his salary in 2013. The more importance is did he hold his bitcoins in the last 11 years?

If in 2013, he received it but sold it to get cash, he no longer have bitcoins to sell in 2017, 2021 or today in 2023. Very few people can hold their coins long enough and if it is from 2013, it's harder to hold over many years with many fud for 10 years.