{"id":38710,"date":"2021-03-11T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38710"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:03:08","slug":"infowars-founder-loses-laptop-containing-10000-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/infowars-founder-loses-laptop-containing-10000-btc\/","title":{"rendered":"InfoWars founder loses laptop containing 10,000 BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>InfoWars founder Alex Jones, the creator of the conspiracy-theory publication InfoWars, lost a laptop on which 10,000 BTC were stored (over $546 million at the time of writing). Jones revealed this himself on the Flagrant 2 podcast.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Max Keiser gave Alex Jones 10,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> on a laptop 10 years ago, but Alex lost it.<\/p>\n<p>That would be worth $550m today. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxkeiser?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MaxKeiser<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tx9KlpWeZD\">pic.twitter.com\/tx9KlpWeZD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 bitcoinarchive\ud83d\ude80\ud83d\udd25\u26a1 (@bitcoinworldt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bitcoinworldt\/status\/1369632298346381313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the coins were given to him back in 2011 by television host Max Keiser, who said the digital coin would become the world\u2019s new currency.<\/p>\n<p>Keiser confirmed on Twitter that he did indeed gift Jones 10,000 BTC. At that time, the price of one bitcoin was under $5.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yep.<br \/>\nThe price was under $5 at the time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NRDpxsjvnu\">https:\/\/t.co\/NRDpxsjvnu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Keiser (@maxkeiser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxkeiser\/status\/1369632984748396548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in January, a resident of the British city of Newport offered local authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/man-who-lost-7500-btc-offers-newport-council-72m-to-search-landfill-for-disk\">about $72 million to dig up a city dump<\/a>, where his hard drive containing 7,500 BTC ended up.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InfoWars founder Alex Jones says he lost a laptop that stored 10,000 BTC (more than $546 million at the time of writing). He revealed this on the Flagrant 2 podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1696],"class_list":["post-38710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-max-keiser"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"49","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38712,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions\/38712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}