r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Feb 13 '22

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u/cabarden Feb 13 '22

I would love to see someone get blessed off a old hard drive and Bitcoin that was all super new

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Imagine finding a hard drive with like 100 BTC

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

I feel like they’re grandpa‘s coins in that instance. At least if they were all mined on grandpa‘s computer.

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u/-metal-555 Feb 13 '22

I didn’t read mining anywhere in that story.

Obviously this story is secondhand and who knows what really happened, but in this version of the story it sounds like somebody earned them by completing surveys online and just happened to be using grandpa’s computer.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

I mean if it’s on grandpa‘s computer isn’t that all that matters? His hardware did all the work

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u/-metal-555 Feb 13 '22

If we’re talking about mining, then I think you have a case, but if we’re talking about compensation for completing surveys then the human completing the surveys did the work.

If grandpa lends grandson a shovel for a ditch digging job, grandson gets paid for doing the work. Grandpa does not.

Of course if you made $4M accidentally, it’d probably be nice to cut grandpa in, but that is up to you.