{"id":71399,"date":"2026-02-07T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71399"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:16:34","slug":"students-forgotten-fun-bitcoin-bet-from-2009-delivered-a-windfall-and-a-home-in-a-posh-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71399","title":{"rendered":"Student&#8217;s Forgotten &#8216;Fun&#8217; Bitcoin Bet From 2009 Delivered A Windfall And A Home In A Posh Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>What if your $24 bet exploded into $850,000 in only four years? Well, that\u2019s exactly what early <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) adopter <strong>Kristoffer Koch <\/strong>pulled off.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A $24 Bet That Changed Everything<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The year is 2009. Koch, a Norwegian student, was writing his master\u2019s thesis on encryption when he stumbled upon Bitcoin,  an unknown online currency at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Kosh said he tossed $24, about 150 Norwegian kroner, on it for \u201cfun,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/okonomi\/kjopte-bolig-for-internettpenger-1.11314773\">according <\/a>to NRK News, a Norwegian news organization. But then his master\u2019s degree and job hunt kept him too busy, and he forgot about the investment.<\/p>\n<h2 ...><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50467832\/students-forgotten-fun-bitcoin-bet-from-2009-delivered-a-windfall-and-a-home-in-a-posh-neig?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Student's\" forgotten bitcoin bet from delivered a windfall and home in posh neighborhood>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if your $24 bet exploded into $850,000 in only four years? Well, that\u2019s exactly what early Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) adopter Kristoffer Koch pulled off. A $24 Bet That Changed Everything The year is 2009. Koch, a Norwegian student, was writing his master\u2019s thesis on encryption when he stumbled upon Bitcoin, an unknown online currency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-71399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}