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Re: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

#51

Can you imagine how many of these BTCs are actually lost forever. Look at this address: http://bitcoinrichlist.com/address/198aMn6ZYAczwrE5NvNTUMyJ5... The last time this address was touched was 2009, and has an even 8,000 coins (back in the day, this only amounted to 320 mined blocks. You could do that in what?... a few hours/half days?[1]) The owner probably ran his system for a few hours, collected 8000 coins, tho…

No way to recover the Bitcoins?

No way if you lost your wallet.dat

Re: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

#53

Can you imagine how many of these BTCs are actually lost forever. Look at this address: http://bitcoinrichlist.com/address/198aMn6ZYAczwrE5NvNTUMyJ5... The last time this address was touched was 2009, and has an even 8,000 coins (back in the day, this only amounted to 320 mined blocks. You could do that in what?... a few hours/half days?[1]) The owner probably ran his system for a few hours, collected 8000 coins, tho…

No way to recover the Bitcoins?

Not without knowing the private key for the bitcoin address in question.

Re: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

#54

Can you imagine how many of these BTCs are actually lost forever. Look at this address: http://bitcoinrichlist.com/address/198aMn6ZYAczwrE5NvNTUMyJ5... The last time this address was touched was 2009, and has an even 8,000 coins (back in the day, this only amounted to 320 mined blocks. You could do that in what?... a few hours/half days?[1]) The owner probably ran his system for a few hours, collected 8000 coins, tho…

No way to recover the Bitcoins?

No. If you delete the wallet, the contained Bitcoins make poof.

You basically delete the private key and won't be able to sign a transaction with it ever.

Re: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

#55

Can you imagine how many of these BTCs are actually lost forever. Look at this address: http://bitcoinrichlist.com/address/198aMn6ZYAczwrE5NvNTUMyJ5... The last time this address was touched was 2009, and has an even 8,000 coins (back in the day, this only amounted to 320 mined blocks. You could do that in what?... a few hours/half days?[1]) The owner probably ran his system for a few hours, collected 8000 coins, tho…

I hope that if you are smart enough to be an early adopter in bitcoins, that you are smart enough to never delete anything, ever.

Re: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cashing out $85 million of pretty much anything would require some special efforts.

How about just 1 million? It seems most responses above are "it can be arranged", which wouldn't be acceptable to me if I had millions in bitcoin I wanted to cash out.

A million is easy. Put up your ask for 1400-1500 BTC and wait for someone to buy it. Maybe spread it out over a small range so it doesn't look intimidating, but at that size it doesn't really matter. Probably happen in a few hours. Again, several of these transactions happen every day.

Have the money wired to your bank. If you're selling on bitstamp, even that step is easy.

Done.

Re: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

#57

Question: How hard/impossible would it be for me as a US citizen to cash in on a large lot like that? Say I want 10 million dollars for some partying I want to do for New Years. It seems some people have mega riches, but is it actually feasible for me to realize that money (in US Dollars, deposited to my Chase bank account)?

No you need to make a private sale, we're talking back alley or across a table somewhere. Getting money out of the US based exchange Mt.Gox is impossible in the range you are talking about. Currently they are cashing out everyone at $10,000/day, that isn't per person that's combined.

Or you can move your Bitcoins to another exchange (which have a much lower valuation) and which are all foreign. Then cash out there. Then repatriate your USD. Which has tax implications. So in an amount as big as $10M you're going to lose a large amount of "money."

You also have to pray that somewhere along the way your anonymous untraceable Bitcoins aren't stolen.

Re: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

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The whole price of Bitcoin is an illusion that they use to get people to keep buying. It's the result of a bidding war. There is an article here about that basically explains (this is my interpretation not his words) how the price of BTC is kindof like the sticker price on an item in the store. It doesn't represent the real value, it's simply the value as perceived by consumers and is, in a way, fixed -- http://falkv…

This!! A rumor is all its going to take to tank the price.

I think you're wrong about that.

51% attack publication didn't kill it.

Silk road bust didn't kill it.

Selfish miner attack publication didn't kill it.

I'm not saying that a flood of sellers won't lower the price dramatically. But to say a rumour is "all it will take" is to ignore recent history.

Re: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

#59
What kind of repercussion will this have in the future, say, when Bitcoin will be more widely utilized? It seems to me that it might only cause an issue to Bitcoin's market during these initial stages, where a rich bitcoin owner could fluster the market by selling large amounts. But in the long run, there will always be the rich and the poor. Or is there something I'm missing?

Re: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

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post #48
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole price of Bitcoin is an illusion that they use to get people to keep buying. It's the result of a bidding war. There is an article here about that basically explains (this is my interpretation not his words) how the price of BTC is kindof like the sticker price on an item in the store. It doesn't represent the real value, it's simply the value as perceived by consumers and is, in a way, fixed -- http://falkv…

This!! A rumor is all its going to take to tank the price.

Hah a big rumor or simpler: sound economic logic/truth...

either one should do the trick, but right now greed is leading

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