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This was when BTC was like 5 cents and no one had learned this lesson yet.
When I first acquired it, I wasn't aware of a place to even check it's value. There was this old game called Dragon Tales, where you could gamble whole BTC on things like kicking a coconut tree to see if 0-4 BTC worth of coconuts would fall...
There's an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I'm fuckwit.
There is a guy fighting Newport council to let him dig through a landfill at the moment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67297013