It's the financial windfall nerd dreams are made of. A Norwegian man who bought $25 of Bitcoin in 2009 found four years later that his off-the-cuff investment had ballooned to a fortune worth $850,000
The story starts when Kristoffer Koch was a student researching a paper about encryption. He came across the online currency Bitcoin, thought it seemed like a novel idea and bought about 150 kroners' worth — around $25 by today's conversion rates. Then Koch forgot all about the purchase, Norway's public broadcasting company NRK reported, according to a Google translation
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