Cryptocurrency Lottery, The Funny Side Of Lottery

The story is told of a man who had won a huge figure in a “1-90 lottery” in Ghana many years ago. As he told his wife the good news, he thought it was alright to confess where he got the money to stake the lotto. He had picked a pair of expensive shoes from the wife’s shoe-rack and had pawned it. As the wife looked at the amount won and how their lives were going to change as a result, she asked “Why didn’t you sell all theshoes?”

There was another lottery, of a sort, in 2009, except the results were "released" four years later.A Norwegian man had bought $27.00 worth of bitcoins in 2009 and had forgotten entirely about it.Kristoffer Koch was working on an encryption thesis and as part of his work; he had bought 5000 bitcoins for just 150 Kroner ($26.60).

Kristoffer probably did not buy the bitcoins because he thought he would become rich. He was used to buying tech stuff and had always been at loggerheads with his girlfriend for that behaviour. It turned out that in April, 2013, as the buzz about bitcoin was spreading; he remembered that he had bought a few. Luckily, he was able to figure out his password.

When he checked, he still had his 5000 bitcoins. It was worth 5million Kroner at thetime($886,000.000). He had sold part of his bitcoin holdings and had bought an apartment in an expensive neighbourhood in Oslo, Norway. If Kristoffer had waited another seven months, his 5000 bitcoins would have been worth $6,000,000.00. This had been one moment when forgetfulness would have seemed like a virtue. Read full story here.

On 18th May 2010, a man resident in Jacksonville, Florida in the USA, a programmer, Mr. Laszlo Hanyecz, bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins worth $25.00 at the time.If Mr. Hanyecz had waited four years, his 10,000 bitcoins would have been worth $12,000,000.00in November, 2013. The price of bitcoins has since fallento about $270.00/$280.00 as of July 2015.

Good news is that thereisan opportunity to relive exactly what Kristoffer Koch and Laszlo Hanyecz experienced a few years back. Another cryptocurrency, called virtacoin, was launched on 1^st July, 2014. It works just like bitcoin. Since it is based on the same code base as bitcoin, it works in almost the same way as bitcoin.You can get more information on virtacoin from virtacoin wikipedia or virtacurrentnews

Like bitcoin in the early days, with just GHc5.00 you can buy between 50,000 and 200,000 virtacoins depending on where you are buying from.

Assuming Kristoffer Koch was living in Ghana, he would have downloaded the virtacoin wallet for windows or virtacoin wallet for Mac or he would simply get an online wallet because it takes less than five minutes to set up while the desktop version takes hours. Kristoffer would probably would have bought 10,000,000 virtacoins, and then he would forget as he did with his bitcoins. Assuming that in the space of a president’s one term in office, 1 virtacoin is valued at $10.00, calculate how rich Kristoffer Koch would have become. Assuming again that Laszlo Hanyecz used the same 10,000,000 virtacoinsto buy pizza at the Dansoman branch of KFC today. Calculate how much he would have lost if the price of 1 virtacoin rises to $10.00.

Are you wondering how you could get some virtacoins? You can buy from http://www.bleutrade.com . You can also Google “buy virtacoins in your country” you will find a seller. In Ghana you can buy virtacoins easily.

You can get a few 100,000 virtacoins absolutely free. Just follow these steps.

1. Create an online wallet at virtacoinwallet.eu then copy your wallet address.

2. Go to moonbit.co.in and sign up by pasting your virtacoin address where you are asked to paste your bitcoin address. The coins would begin to accumulate immediately.

3. Claim every few hours. Payment is on Sundays if your balance is more than 5500 satoshis.

Note: to receive yourvirtacoins, [email protected] [email protected] toconfigureyourwallettoreceivebitcoins.AlsoaskforyourPINwhichyouwouldneedtospend yourcoins.

Maybe you do not need virtacoins at all. However, like an email address which seem like a must have today; a cryptocurrency (virtacoin) address will become an essential requirementin the near future. You might as well get avirtacoin address here.

In the course of the months and the years to come, let us see who would become a Kristoffer Koch, who would buy virtacoins and forget them only to realise one day that he is rich enough to buy a house at Trassacco, andwho would be a Laszlo Hanyecz, in a hurry to spend his virtacoinson two pizzss at KFC Ghana, only to bite his/her fingers in the years to come.