🪙 The owner of a rare physical Casascius coin with a denomination of 25 BTC uncovered the protective hologram and for the first time in 12 years transferred the bitcoins to a new wallet. When the coin was released in the early 2010s, the 25 BTC stored on it were worth less than $100, and today — around $1,800,000.

The most interesting thing is that along with gaining access to the bitcoins, the coin lost its collector's value — after the hologram was removed, it is no longer considered an "untouched" artifact, for which collectors are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars over and above the BTC value.

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