In 2014 Ethereum had a 42 day presale where anyone could buy ETH for $0.31


In the beginning you could buy 2,000 ETH for about $300
By the end the price went up to about $0.46 per ETH
6,600 people bought in and Ethereum raised $18,300,000 in total
Vitalik warned every buyer: "DO NOT lose your wallet file or your password, or you will never be able to access your ether"
The wallet needed a password with at least 10 characters, capitals, lowercase, special characters and numbers
Most people came up with something in 30 seconds and never wrote it down
That was 11 years ago
630 of those wallets have never moved a single coin
532,426 ETH sitting in wallets nobody can open
At today's price that's over $1,000,000,000 in Ethereum that will probably never move again
One family in Washington DC has $6,000,000 in ETH they can't touch because they forgot the password
Some became millionaires, some lost everything to a forgotten password
ETH2,07%
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GateUser-920e9830vip
· 2h ago
Diamond Hands 💎
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