THELOGICALINDIAN - As bitcoins amount rises lots of absorbing belief appears frequently on forums and amusing media Just afresh two accurate tales accept sparked discussions amid bitcoiners as able-bodied as thoughtprovoking questions
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Dying Man Buys 191 BTC at $1700 by Re-Mortgaging His Home
On May 9 as the amount of one bitcoin surpassed US$1700 a dying man claimed he took out a $325,000 disinterestedness accommodation to acquirement 191 BTC. The column on Reddit acquired absolutely the activity for bitcoin proponents who anticipation the man was crazy to action his home to acquirement bitcoins at a actual aerial amount point. The cilia was actual arguable but accustomed hundreds of upvotes over the advance of the day. One being responds to the column saying,
The abominable affidavit additionally fabricated account throughout assorted boilerplate media outlets. The accepted banal bazaar advertisement Market Watch reported on the adventure as able-bodied answer that the man may be ambience himself up for banking disaster. While some bodies compared the terminally ill man to Walter White from the TV appearance Breaking Bad, some bodies admired the dying man the best of luck and hoped his action paid off.
“I absitively to accomplish my newest lunge, application what disinterestedness I accept accrued on my acreage over the accomplished ten years back the 2008 banking crisis,” the allegedly dying man writes. “If bitcoin alcove the 10k mark — which I see as a audible possibility, or I would not accept taken such a accident — I plan on affective to the West Coast and accepting abroad from all the affronted bodies actuality area I currently reside.”
A Guy Plans to Rob His ‘Friend’ Over $125,000 Worth of BTC
Another odd adventure apropos a guy advertent annexation his friend’s backing of 70 BTC appeared on May 1. A chat discussion amid a few bodies reveals the being larboard their Electrum berry out in the accessible and one of his ‘friends’ wrote bottomward all the words. One being writes in response, “steal it dude, there ain’t no regulations in this motherfucker,” while others in the babble allowance alleged him a “shitty friend.” The aforementioned being who encourages the annexation again goes on to say the money would abate his activity and he could aloof move.
Although the affair was rather negative, the column led to abounding bitcoiners discussing the best practices to abundance their berry phrases to abstain these types of situations. Some acclimated methods like application the Cryptosteel accessory while others hid their berry phrases application words aural books they owned. The chat had acquired into abounding descriptions of how bitcoin proponents anchored their bitcoins. Some of the account were a bit over the top like this one;
Both belief are actual agnate to the tales told on Ripley’s Believe It Or Not bearing some absorbing conversations amid bitcoin enthusiasts. Most bodies would accede that mortgaging your home because of bitcoin amount belief may not be the best idea. Furthermore, there are abounding shitty bodies in this world, and some of them may arise to be ‘friends’, but abrogation your berry byword out in the accessible is additionally a abhorrent aegis practice.
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