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Imagine finding a file on an old laptop from when you were just futzing around 15 years ago. And it was worth $9 billion.

It's not that. These are addresses with 10k BTC each. That's very intentional storage even for 2011.

Wasn’t 10k bitcoin the price of a pizza or something back then?

BTC ranged between $0.30 and $27 back in 2011 so not quite

That's about US$500M per pie these days ( 1BTC ~= US$100K )