SPANISH MAN MINES 1,000 BTC AT NASA IN 2010 AND LOSES THEM 🇪🇸
Antonio Andrés Henche, a Spanish engineer working in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence at SETI / NASA.
October 2010: he mined Bitcoin in his spare time. He mined 4–5 blocks per night, earning up to 50 BTC per block back then.
Total accumulated: 1,000 BTC.
His Linux PC broke, and he lost the hard drive without a backup. In 2013, when BTC was already worth $60, he realized what had happened.
Known as "Antuam" on Bitcointalk. Story verified by Europa Press.
Today, those 1,000 BTC would be worth $62M+
Moral of the story: back up your seed phrases, dude.
#España $BTC C #Miner #RealStory
Antonio Andrés Henche, a Spanish engineer working in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence at SETI / NASA.
October 2010: he mined Bitcoin in his spare time. He mined 4–5 blocks per night, earning up to 50 BTC per block back then.
Total accumulated: 1,000 BTC.
His Linux PC broke, and he lost the hard drive without a backup. In 2013, when BTC was already worth $60, he realized what had happened.
Known as "Antuam" on Bitcointalk. Story verified by Europa Press.
Today, those 1,000 BTC would be worth $62M+
Moral of the story: back up your seed phrases, dude.
#España $BTC C #Miner #RealStory