{"id":2348,"date":"2025-07-22T14:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:39:57","slug":"student-forgot-27-bitcoin-investment-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"Student Forgot $27 Bitcoin Investment\u2014Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositiveinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-394.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42011\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forgotten $27 Bitcoin Becomes a Fortune<\/strong><br>Kristoffer Koch, a Norwegian student, invested $27 in Bitcoin in 2009 after reading a paper by Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. At the time, Koch said, \u201cThe sole purchasable items in those days were alpaca socks,\u201d so he forgot about the investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Years Later: Shocking Discovery<\/strong><br>In 2013, Koch checked his account and was stunned to find it worth $850,000. \u201cNot in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that they would have soared like this,\u201d he told local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From Student to Millionaire<\/strong><br>After struggling to remember his wallet password, he accessed his Bitcoin and used part of it to buy an apartment in Oslo. He sold one-fifth and kept the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Massive Growth<\/strong><br>Today, Koch\u2019s remaining Bitcoin could be worth around $475 million. Reflecting on the journey, he said: \u201cIt\u2019s bizarre\u2026 we attach a value to something that doesn\u2019t have any in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten $27 Bitcoin Becomes a FortuneKristoffer Koch, a Norwegian student, invested $27 in Bitcoin in 2009 after reading a paper by Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. At the time, Koch said, \u201cThe sole purchasable items in those days were alpaca socks,\u201d so he forgot about the investment. Years Later: Shocking DiscoveryIn 2013, Koch checked his account&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}