The investment attractiveness of cryptocurrencies and bitcoin began to grow rapidly in late 2020 and early 2021. However, many forecasters talked about the future success of the coin back in 2011-2012. Recently, there has been a lot of news in the information space that retailers or investors are losing millions of dollars because they forget their laptop passwords or lose them altogether.
A similar situation occurred with Alex Jones, the creator of a major source of provocative news InfoWars. Back in 2011, the entrepreneur received a gift from a famous TV presenter of ten thousand bitcoins, when their price barely reached $4.5. We all know the future of the digital asset perfectly well. At the current exchange rate, the cost of the gift in the form of bitcoins now reaches half a billion dollars. Now, the main crypto asset is held at around $55.5 thousand.
Such incidents happen all the time and all over the world. For example, a similar case occurred in the British city of Newport, where a guy threw out a hard drive that stored a password from bitcoins in the amount of $461 million.
At first glance, such funny news does not have any impact on the market and the behavior of investors. But if you look closely, you can note two things. First, such a report shakes the information background, filling it with resonant amounts associated with cryptocurrencies. Secondly, such incidents contain two figures: the value of bitcoin in 2011 and ten years later. The widespread of such information events shows a wide range of people how much the price of a digital asset has increased over 10 years.
A few months ago, this kind of news would not have been of great importance, but right now the cryptocurrency market is actively occupying the information space. The Jones situation shows what dividends can be received by interested parties in transactions with digital assets. And although such events do not directly affect the quotes of individual coins, they clearly reflect on the psychology of participants in cryptocurrency exchanges.
