Topic: A painter received $50 worth of bitcoin on June 2013. - page 4. (Read 891 times)

Assuming that my broad assumption is right — the fact that she might've just saved her Blockchain.com login credentials on her browser, well, Chrome — the most used browser ever, syncs saved login credentials to your Google account by default. Everything should be backed up assuming she's using the same Google account.

I respect these people who are hodling their bitcoin since 2013. The longest I was able to hodl was 2 and half years that too during the COVID situation and now I keep selling now and then whenever I need my money for my daily usage.
Though I have set up ledger now to keep saving some bitcoins. I am also putting sharing of money from the part time job and trying to hodl is as much as I could in the future.

These are the stories I need to keep learning and keep myself motivating so that I can hodl longer than usual. Lolz.

Good for the painter, afterall her artwork and hard work paid her off!

The donation was done way back in 2013, that's like almost 10 years ago. Well, the video was uploaded in 2021 so that's actually 8 years later. But just the same, didn't she change computers or laptops since then? It's amazing that somebody who is not really deep into this Bitcoin thing still has access to her meager 1 BTC after a long time. Even some of those who are deep into Bitcoin in its earliest years lost access to their tens or even hundreds, or perhaps even thousands of Bitcoin.

In terms of your question whether she sold or not, either way she had already made a good profit from that tip. Lucky for her that she forgot about it for some time, but not the access.

The only thing I would do if I were her, and therefore what I would recommend, is not to sell everything. If she's tempted to trade it for fiat, she can sell half a Bitcoin and wait another 10 years. I'm sure it will be worth it.

She is lucky to still have access to the wallet and her luck is multiplied by accessing the wallet when the BTC price is quite high although not the highest.
There are many stories out there of how they became surprised that their crypto asset in BTC, had multiplied in value in USD due to the increase in the price of BTC, sometimes not knowing how valuable btc could make a profit.

Painting that  amounting 20k usd(the price is base for now and not yesterday and tomorrow) so indeed this is one of the expensive painting this painter did( not unless Her paintings now causing too much amount) .

it will extend more if she keeps that funds on hold as already been keeping for almost 10 years now .

For the 1 BTC donation, she had like $67k at one point(price ATH). Noice.

The question though is, has she sold already — and if so, at what price?



If I were to guess, she probably just had her blockchain.com account's login credentials saved on her browser lmao.

Lucky for her, she didn't totally forget about it. Bitcoin at $50 for somebody who is clueless about what it is and doesn't know much about wallets, backups, private keys, etc, it might simply be forgotten. It is really good for her that she's still able to access it. She deserves it.

Many lost access to their Bitcoin in those early years not just because of low value but also because nobody thought it would rise this high. Many must have easily threw away hard drives containing a few Bitcoin because it was only worth a little.

We called it the miracle of bitcoin!

i have once surprised myself by seeing my bittrex account had a balance worth $1,200 when the price of bitcoin hit the all time high in 2020 at $28,000 per bitcoin , that was a little amount of money back in when i opened the account at bittrex and left some bitcoins there it's just worth around $70 as well , i'm excited as hell to try to remember another wallet i left with some coins back in 2014 lol.

This is another way of showing how early investors or believers received their part of cake from their investments , though this sounds like not really a trust but an opportunity and experimental? yet that said painter is a double digit richer now .

and maybe as she continues to see the future? then keeping the said bitcoin will bring Her more confident as the price will continue to progress if she will look deeper to what is bitcoin all about and how this works for betterment of the system and the market.

It turned out, it was one the best painting job she did. It's also a good thing she still can access her blockchain.com account. People who didn't mind thier account since the early days forgot about it and recovering is difficult.

$50/BTC is the price of BTC in 2013. That's how fast the price had climbed to 2017. Waiting for 2025, she could get more than $60K.

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/alispagnola


This video was uploaded in early 2021. It was an exciting story and I want to share it here.

I was just browsing for some videos and have seen this painter received $50 worth of bitcoin in 2013 (1 bitcoin). This video is all about a painter that has been doing free paintings for her audience. And someone has emailed her to make a bitcoin painting and the requestor has convinced her to receive his donation in the form of bitcoin. While this woman has no idea of what bitcoin is and is convinced, she just held it until last year and since we knew what was up with last year, she has checked that bitcoin wallet of hers which seems on a blockchain.com account. And she was blown at first because that became around $11k in total she stated the video was made 3 months ago so basically that's on October 2020 and uploaded it on $39k ATH on January 2021.

And that made her look up to that donator and meet him in person. She's able to contact him through their mutual friend and met him in Vegas. For other details, it's on her YT channel named "Ali Spagnola" and the link is on the image/thread.

This is just one of the stories of success in relation to bitcoin holding. Like, this woman has no idea of what she's about to receive as a donation. Still, after reading the explanation and being educated just through the email, she's in and held it unintentionally for several years which has blown her during the bull run and it could have gone up to $69k if she has held up to that point and sold. I have no idea what's with that bitcoin she holds now if she still has it through the bear market or sold it on high.

Regardless of that, she's still on the win and profit by having that value of $50 years ago and even if we're in a bear market now, it's still worth around $19k-$20k.