In 2010, a programmer accidentally came across
, when the price of Bitcoin was almost zero. Out of curiosity, he mined 500 Bitcoins with a regular computer. Feeling that these digital currencies had no real value, he ignored them and continued to be busy with his work.
A few years later, when the price of Bitcoin skyrocketed to thousands of dollars, he remembered the Bitcoins he had from the early years. When he was excited to find them again, he discovered that he had formatted the hard drive containing the Bitcoins and even thrown it away. At that moment, he realized that he had missed out on a huge fortune.
