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> But obviously in hindsight, it was the most expensive mistake I've made in my life.

It doesn't sound like a mistake to me at all. You paid off debts and invested in something that has delivered value to you for almost 15 years now. A mistake would have been to spend it on blow and hookers.

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no a true mistake would have been to delete the hard drive that the wallet was stored on so you wouldn't even had the benefit of paying off anything or buying any hookers and blow.

no no no, that's the second most true mistake.

the truest of all true mistakes, was having never bought bitcoin in the first place.

There's a British guy who threw away a hard drive that if recovered would be worth hundreds of millions of pounds, and has been engaged in a weird legal battle with the council to try to dig through years of rubbish to find it.

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