The value of $1,000 invested 15 years ago
Bitcoin: $174,000,000
Nvidia: $330,000
Tesla: $291,000
Netflix: $31,830
Amazon: $26,470
Google: $21,600
Apple: $21,440
Visa: $20,500
Facebook (Meta): $19,000
Microsoft: $16,100
Nike: $5,600
Starbucks: $4,900
S&P 500: $6,200
Gold: $3,400
Disney: $2,500
Coca Cola: $2,300
Cash: $680 😹
June 2011: One of the earliest and largest Bitcoin thefts in history
A single user lost everything overnight
25,000 BTC vanished
Worth around $500,000 at the time
Over $2.4 billion at today’s prices
The victim:
A Bitcointalk user known as Allinvain, one of Bitcoin’s early miners.
Date of the incident:
June 13, 2011
Transaction details:
Hundreds of UTXOs were consolidated
The entire wallet was drained in a single transaction
Destination address:
1KPTdMb6p7H3YCwsyFqrEmKGmsHqe1Q3jg
How it happened:
Allinvain’s Slush Pool account was compromised
The payout address was changed
Login credentials had already been leaked
The critical mistake:
wallet.dat stored unencrypted
Running on Windows
Mining software from multiple, untrusted sources
The private keys were copied directly, and 25,000 BTC were moved within seconds.
After the theft:
A post appeared on Bitcointalk hours later
Allinvain woke up to find his balance at zero
What followed:
Additional BTC were sent to the same address
Total received: 25,033 BTC
Funds were split and moved slowly over time
Today:
Almost everything has been spent
Only 0.004 BTC remains
Conclusion:
The attacker was never identified, and the incident remains a harsh early lesson in Bitcoin wallet security.