Landfills Are Filling Up With Bitcoin

By May 20, 2016Bitcoin Business

The Bitcoiners “FU” (shorthand for fuck up on the subrredit r/tifu) started six years ago when he was in college. As he states on the forum known as ‘Today I Fucked Up:’

Back then, “I had a hugely over-inflated sense of how intelligent I was. Rare for someone on reddit I know.”

He chose to, instead of get a part time job, make money on the internet. He set up an ad network of internet webpages.

“I also came across this thing called bitcoin, and people were giving them away for free on some websites,” he wrote, referencing Bitcoin faucets. “Everything I read about them said they were going to be the next big thing. Awesome, I’ll get myself some of those. Over the course of 1 semester I’d gotten around 150 bitcoins, which at the time was worth around $11.00. What a waste of fucking time! These things haven’t exploded like they were supposed to, back to my matched betting and AwesomeTM websites!”

The redditor stored his bitcoins on his laptop. When he upgraded his laptop in the next semester with more RAM and a 7200 HDD, he left himself a sarcastic note on the bitcoins…

“That was the last time I paid any attention to bitcoin, it wasn’t too long before I graduated and started to earn decent(ish) money,” he wrote. “Fast forward to last month and I’m moving to a smaller apartment (more expensive area), and had to be picky about what I could take.”

He sorted through “old box of PC parts” and threw it all in the trash. He used the same box for things to bring to his new apartment. Due to his “laziness,” he didn’t immediately go through the boxes.

“Tonight after a 4 hour reddit session I unpacked one of the boxes, and I found THIS ,” […]

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