Wow! Great story! Good thing that she is not into cryptocurrency thing or she might withdraw it earlier like most people into investing. I believe blockchain.com offers accounts but under their custody. Many exchanges and email providers are now gone. And she did manage to keep her email and password for nearly a decade. That bitcoin was really meant for her and she deserves it.

I started purchasing bitcoin when it was at 3 digits price but I sold most of them when it reached 4 digits. So now, I am back on the drawing board. 

This is really amazing that how $50 turned into really big amount for her after couple of years which she had completely forget about.This shows that how much profitable bitcoin is for the early investors and happy to see that she met the person also in Vegas to thank him and making her life better with that amount.Now if she had sold or even do it now she would make lot of money so believe in the power of btc and your luck.

Not really that patient but pretty much sure that she had just recently know or been aware on whats the current price of bitcoin and remembered that she had earned something back in the past.

If you do earn $50 worth back on the day then it would be most likely forgotten if you do have other source or payment method was sent into you and with these minimal amounts on that time
for some people wont really give that kind of importance and just simply forget it.

Now, the time has come where bitcoins price is really valuable then you would definitely be coming back and trying to look for those coins.

This is very nice, we call this kind of blessing "Miracle Blessing". That is why when we are doing something we should do with the whole of our heart, so that the day when you will be blessed, you will go home with smiling. Charity is always from the heart. After the heart then home. That is charity begins at home. She has the heart of giving that was why she was doing free painting works. Not everybody can do what she was doing.
But I have a question. If she was not familiar with bitcoin, and yet the donator sent the $50 worth of BTC, how? because at that stage she was very stranged  of the coin. Did the man (donator) open a wallet for her?
That is, she was not even aware when the the fund was sent to her. I really did not get that bolded part of the story. She did not know what was bitcoin and received it. How? who open the wallet for her?

The fact that they abandoned their investments, simply means that they are not expecting from it and keeping would only be a waste of time or money. Well, the case with the painter is quite different. She received and keep her bitcoin for a long time, without any intention to sell it or throw it away, and now she’s very surprised that her bitcoin value had gone so far. She could have made more profits than that if she have remembered bitcoin that time when bitcoin surprised us with a very significant amount way back 2017.

Yeah, that web wallet has got a lot of issues and bugs but it seems that she has held it there and had no problems as she has probably kept the credentials or saved it on the web and that PC or laptop of hers is still helpful when she has gained access on it.

It proves that the little investment that one can do right now can be big someday but yeah, it will take a lot of time and patience.

I agree, little recognition for that guy as one of the early adopters and didn't even want an exposure to her video. I guess that we know why she didn't want to be part of the video for safety purposes and he might be a millionaire now. That guy was patient to her and has spread his wealth to her.

Not too late and newbies that have think that bitcoin is expensive as of this moment, they can look at such story and majority of us when we saw bitcoin's price for the first time, we have probably said the same thing on how expensive it was.

Very likely that she's into it and saw that the $50 worth of bitcoin becomes a hundred or two or more then she have probably sold it and regretting it at the present that she has sold it years ago. But good thing the story for her is different and amazing.

It would be good for people to understand that Bitcoin is not just an investment with which you want to make a profit, but also that it is about something much more valuable than few people even understand or want to accept. Investment is not a bad thing, but from time to time Bitcoin should be used as a currency, which was its primary purpose.

As time goes on and the price of BTC gets higher, the players in this game will start to change, the small fish will soon cease to be relevant, and the big fish will dominate the entire market. Money will be earned, but those who already have too much money will profit the most.

Epic story op. The painter was rewarded in the best way possible though she should be careful with the amount if she is still HODLING it since she is easy prey for hackers who lurk around in the darkness here and there.

Many BTC HODLERS earned big money by completely forgetting about their initial investment in this manner. Lucky people!

I know him and also followed him on his YouTube channel but I've just found that video of it too late. He's one of those that have been doing things on his own of promoting bitcoin but most likely only a few listened to his advices. Just like what he has been telling before, if people will do the same thing as what they've done before, there's still space that they can make money on it in the future.

Well, she's indebted to that guy because he insisted that she has to learn about the basics of accepting bitcoin since he's appreciating his artworks and even asked to make a bitcoin logo. It's going to be a different story if she has forgotten his login credentials for her account that contains bitcoin.

I guess that after or before posting the video, she's got some enough knowledge already on how to keep it properly and how to avoid hackers that might randomly approach her about the bitcoin she has received years ago.

We're unnoticingly doing the same thing by just simply holding although we don't intend to forget it. :p

There could be some other guys that have been doing the same thing as davincij and the same experience that hasn't been published yet just as Ali's.