Quote from: SimonL on June 23, 2012, 09:54:05 AM

>I bet he is okay cuz he has 200,000 more:)

Yeah seriously, he had ample time to mine more at that stage and frankly I doubt those would have been the only coins in his possession. And just for context, what would have stopped him from dropping 30 bucks to buy 10,000 more? People seem to think that once his coins were gone he had no hope of getting any more, the logic mystifies me.

As somebody who had several thousand coins (from selling something small and cpu mining) back when they were they were somewhere around $0.005, It absolutely wouldn't surprise me if the vast majority of the other "early adopters" from those days had no coins left.

I sold the majority of those very early coins when the price jumped 10 times(!) up to $0.05 in the course of a few days. I also gave many away to friends to convince them to try out bitcoin (I mean, giving away blocks of 50 or 100 coins at a time).

It's not like we knew the price was going to rise so much.

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