Co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak: I bought bitcoins when they cost 700$

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Co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak said in an interview with CNBC on Monday that he had purchased bitcoins when the value of the coin was 700$.

Wozniak was not informed exactly how many bitcoins he had purchased, but since then the price of the digital coins managed to grow to $ 3000, then fell back a bit ago, however, shows a significant increase in the bitcoin savings Wozniak.

“I zaiteresovat bitcoin for the first time, when it cost 70$, I went online, but it turned out that in order to buy them you need a special account in a special Bank, so I could not then buy any bitcoins and left the idea. in the end, I bought a certain number of coins when they cost 700$, after which the price dropped to $350. For me it was not an investment, I wanted to experiment”

Wozniak said that he wanted to learn how to pay bills with bitcoin, for example, in restaurants and hotels.

“It's not so easy, but it is becoming more accessible. I was just experimenting with how you can make a buy or sell bitcoin without thinking about the fact that you lose a lot of money, but the money that was left greatly increased,” — said Wozniak.

Wozniak also touched on the topic of the blockchain and explained why this technology is important, from his point of view:


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This really is the tech revolution all over again. The Bill Gates & Steve Wozniaks, have been replaced by Satoshi Nakamotos and guys named Zooko! The future is going to be intense!

You know that command in the picture is going to delete all of the files in your mac, right.

Is the equivalent of delete system32 on Windows

I remember when Bitcoin was only $100. I thought about buying 10 bitcoin at the time, but I really could not justify the move with my salary. Wish I had.

$1,000 would have turned into $28,000. Ouch!

A funny fact about Woz. My uncle and my aunt at the time lived two doors down from him and Jobs when they invented the Apple. I met Woz back then. They had me gardening after a party. I was thoroughly hung over to the max. One of the nice thing about meeting Woz was, I was like seriously interested in parabolic three dimensional dishes and reflecors at the time. I had to pull the weeds. I was a kid. Anyways, after talking, I figured out what I wanted to know on an Apple IIe at the library in Milpitas like eight years later and it worked. Which was cool. The librarian was pissed that I used like two hundred and eighty pages to printout the values of the equation y^2 = 4 ac.

Or its struct 4(y^2)/c = a. What was cool though was that I could take aluminum foil and put it on the back of the dish made out of fiberglass resin and it would fry shit like at a barbecue. It had practical applications