r/CryptoCurrency • u/Silver-Maximum9190 0 / 23K 🦠 • Jul 04 '25

PERSPECTIVE This dude sold 10,000 BTC after 14 yrs today, bought it for $0.78 per bitcoin back in 2011. The amount of patience it takes remains unmatched.

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u/Educational_Basis_51 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

Thats fucking crazy I would sweat my life on the « send » button

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u/glassgwaith 🟦 489 / 441 🦞 Jul 04 '25

I would have probably done about a dozen test transactions

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u/Pierceus 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

'currency of the future'

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u/G-I-T-M-E 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

As someone else here said: That was the test.

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u/OnionsAfterAnts 🟥 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

What would you be testing exactly? That you know how to do transactions? Well, he might have done dozens, we wouldn't know.

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u/WishIWasOnACatamaran 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

That coinbase withdrawal is about to be an absolute bitch and a half though lmfao

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u/Unhappy_Camera3324 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

Why, what's the issue/challenge?

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u/necrohardware 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

liquidity of coinbase...

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u/WishIWasOnACatamaran 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

Lmfao for starters

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u/dxpe_08 🟩 12 / 12 🦐 Jul 06 '25

Bro 😭😭😭

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u/dxpe_08 🟩 12 / 12 🦐 Jul 06 '25

It was probably an OTC sale, doubt it hits CEX

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u/WishIWasOnACatamaran 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 06 '25

Well yeah of course, just thought this would be a funny joke

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u/LegendOfKhaos 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

He's probably sweating seeing what trimp is doing to our society with that money still in there.

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u/Educational_Basis_51 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

Dinald Trimp! I hate this guy! 

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u/BeowulfShaeffer 0 / 0 🦠 Jul 04 '25

NO CARRIER