How This Whale Lost 100 ETH Through An ENS Domain Name
An ETH whale has incurred a massive loss on account of participating in a meme trend that has been gaining traction on Twitter. The meme trend was in direct connection to the ENS domain names and their growing popularity in the NFT space. Some domain names have been receiving high bids lately, and users in […]
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A good portion of the bitcoin supply has been lost due to holders dying or forgetting their private keys. These coins will never be recovered and are regarded as lost bitcoins. They play into the scarcity factor that drives the value of bitcoin up. It is estimated that 20% of the digital asset has been lost. These could technically still be recovered but it is unlikely since losing a private key means losing the coins held in the wallet. Since so much of the asset is lost, the rest remaining in circulation are more valuable than ever, especially given the limited supply of bitcoin.....
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Bitcoin has become big business, if you weren't already aware. So it should be no surprise that bitcoin-related domain names are going for a pretty penny while on the market. Such is the case with BitcoinWallet.com - a domain name owned by entrepreneur Niko Younts. Younts tweeted that the domain fetched a whopping $250,000. But it doesn't end there. Younts has a similar domain, BitcoinWallets.com (plural) that is expected to bring in $200,000. That's nearly a half-million for two domain names. The domains were registered in 2010 and 2011, respectively. A quick Whois of the....
The domain name Bitcoins.com, owned by Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles, is set to be sold off through US-based auction house Heritage Auctions on 24th July. The sale of the domain name is part of Heritage's 2014 Domain Names Signature Auction and is expected to garner at least $750,000, owing to what the auction house calls the high-value of the domain name. The auction will begin with an opening bid of $185,000. It is perhaps the highest-profile auction of a bitcoin-related web address to date. In the past year, several domain names have been sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, including....