The Story of my Bitcoin ehm Life

What do a pizza, a discarded hard drive, a homemade signboard and two raids have in common? In all cases it is about a large amount of money, hidden behind a virtual currency called Bitcoin. What in 2008 was only a vague theory in a scientific treatise on "digitized currencies" is today a recognized payment on the Internet and some real business. Today (26 June 2017) is a Bitcoin 2.235 euros worth. Since Bitcoins had been the focus of society for only a few years, the stories of the pioneering period are becoming more and more odd.

MILLIONS OF LOSS
Everything started in January 2009. A network of computers produced the first bitcoin block of 50 talers, which had no real value at that time. The generation of bitcoins ("mining") has become the hobby of a few, who have made fun of "money". But at that time, the focus was not on profits in millions, but on the question of whether the bitcoin generated could be used to cover the electricity bill for computers. So it was that hard-working users gathered rough amounts of the virtual currency in a short time, but did not have to do anything with it. The US-American programmer Laszlo Hanyecz, for example, wanted to prove that there are also some handfestes against Bitcoins. So he asked another user to order a pizza worth $ 40 for 10,000 Bitcoins. Today, the coins would be worth almost 23 million euros.

GREAT PROFITS
The number of illegally procured bitcoins rises almost daily. The high value of the virtual taler causes many users to search for security gaps and to empty the wallet. A famous example is "MtGox", whose operators ultimately stole several million US dollars. But there is also reason to smile: Just because a resourceful student held a sign with a donation code in the form of a QR graphic during a television broadcast, there were a short time later 23 Bitcoins in his account - currently converted almost 50,000 euros, Which the young man can now use for his studies.