Billy Markus is widely known on social media as Shibetoshi Nakamoto, and he is one of the two founders of Dogecoin. In a recent X post, Markus published an image with a headline about a hefty amount of Bitcoin lost by an individual 12 years ago. These days, this crypto stash would have made this person a multimillionaire with an almost $800,000,000 fortune in crypto. Markus commented on this news, tweeting: “I know the feeling.”
This suggests that perhaps the creator of Dogecoin regrets not stacking BTC in its early days, when he had a chance. Last year, Markus revealed his current Bitcoin holdings, and they constitute only around 0.003 BTC, which is the equivalent to around $267.48 in fiat. The image posted by Shibetoshi Nakamoto shows a big garbage dump and an image of a person sitting at his desktop computer. The news title in the image states that after 12 years, the person who lost $742 million worth of Bitcoin held on a hard drive “finally stops searching.”
One of the commentators asked the Grok AI chatbot for clarification of this information. Grok responded that the person in the image was James Howells, who lost a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins back in 2013. However, the AI pointed out that, while the loss indeed took place, media reports about Howells stopping searching for his lost fortune are rather mixed. Today, 8,000 Bitcoins would be valued at $713,240,560.
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