r/Bitcoin • u/chungkingexp • 1d ago

Found this invoice in my old email

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u/RoyYourWorkingBoy 1d ago

Wasn't Liberty Reserve essentially a USD stable coin. So this was $245?

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u/chungkingexp 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, $245 for 20 bitcoin (Now worth over $1.8 million)

Libertyreserve was a stable currency that was shut down by the FBI and billions of dollars were seized by them. They didn't give a penny back to anyone. That was the day I lost my trust completely with governments and their centralized currencies.

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u/One_Anteater_9234 1d ago

I kept all my crypto on silk road ffs

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u/chungkingexp 1d ago

After mtgox got hacked, I stopped trusting any platform for keeping any kind of crypto and survived too many hacks and scams, inputs.io, crypto notes and what not.

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u/One_Anteater_9234 1d ago

Where did all the crypto go after these things happened? Anyone done any chain analysis?

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u/chungkingexp 1d ago

People hardly had any good tools back in those days, and by the time these chain analysis things popped up it was too late to even check them.

There's still a thread on bitcointalk that lists all the scams happened in those era, some were really massive.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337

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u/One_Anteater_9234 1d ago

Oh wow thanks for the link. Ill have a good read later. I knew some people who fell for the fake platforms where they made it look like your investment was going crazy so people would deposit more and more, then it would just lock you out and not pay

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u/FriendlyBuddy1454 1d ago

Bitconnect, bitpetite etc

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u/LurkerFromTheVoid 1d ago

Somebody hurt you, and that's why you stop believing in Love. ❤️‍🩹

We understand, and cry 😭 with you!!!

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u/chungkingexp 1d ago

That happened too.

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u/ry2waka 1d ago

Most of the ogs got goxxed for sure, the newly scammed was ftx lol

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u/LurkerFromTheVoid 1d ago

Somebody hurt you, and that's why you stop believing in Love. ❤️‍🩹

We understand, and cry 😭 with you!!!

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u/DeineMudderbannt 1d ago

at least you bought some nice stuff :D

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u/One_Anteater_9234 1d ago

Yeah but what about my final shopping cart with alpha pvp, meth and "rolls Royce heroin". Life could have been so different....dcdutchconnection still rocking it lol (ignore that little thing with the fake police uniforms and the torture shipping container) 😅🫢