Congratulations to the runners-up

I love this story; ten years ago, there was a Starcraft tournament.

The prizes were;

• 1st Place: $500
• 2nd Place: S250
• 3rd Place: S150
• 4th Place: $100
• 5th-8th Place: 25 BitCoins

At the time of writing, 25 BitCoins a) would probably be spelt "25 bitcoin", and b) would be worth about £430,000. (Mind you, last November they would have been worth about £1.2 million...)

You have to wonder what might have happened to them. Maybe all four of the winners forgot about them completely, and those 100 bitcoin are now part of the estimated 20% of 18+ million bitcoin in existence that are held in lost wallets.

Maybe they sold them to pay for a pizza or something.

At least the winner won $500 in cold hard cash... Except apparently¹, they lost the money. Not by blowing it on gambling or drugs or something - they literally just left it on the bus.

1. I don't care know if its a true story - only that its a good story. ↩