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I have a friend I knew since elementary school and when bitcoin started to become a thing I told him about it and we mined for a bit, I gave up quickly but he did it longer with better GPU. Then the price skyrocketed and it turned out he had 4000zł (about 1k $) but it was on his old PC with formated drive, he never got his wallet back despite trying many methods of file recovery
1000$ may feel like small amount for American but for pollies it's a small fortune