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TIFU by recovering a 11 year old account and instantly regretting not listening to my OCD in 2013...

A long time ago (2013), in a reddit account that is far far away (deleted) I had a brief moment of reddit fame. An IAMA post that skyrocketed to the top, with tens of thousands of karma and posts and questions. I was briefly internet famous.

As I scoured through my thousands of comments, and odd one appeared. A person had given me a gift of something I had heard of, but never even crossed my mind to care about. But I thought, what the hell. I'll accept it. It was nice of him to spend a few bucks on me.

I clicked the link and created the account to recieve the gift.

The gift was just 1% of the full item. Only worth a few bucks. As I looked at my account, I very clearly remeber my OCD telling me to buy the other 99% just so it would be a whole number. It would have been like, 90ish bucks. I had 90 bucks. But....nah....that's game money.

Logged out of that account right after i created it and didn't think about it again for another 11 years. Figured the account was long gone.

A few days ago I looked in my spam folders and saw a legitimate message emails from that account still were getting sent to me. I thought they were spam before, but close review everything looked legit.

Could the account possibly still exsist?

A few days of frustrating automated customer service, account recovery, and doing them same identity tify verififcation half a dozen times....

But finally...today....I won the fight and got the account back. The same accoumt I had not logged in to for 11 years.

Surely the gift was gone. Nope...it was still there. It is mine again.

That gift from a redditor in 2013 was 0.01 bitcoin. The account was coinbase. And it's still there.

Had I just listened to my OCD and spent that 80 bucks in 2013....it would be 70,000 and not 700....

Oh well. Whoever sent me that gift, than you for the 700 bucks 11 years later!!!

TLDR: Got a reddit gift in 2013 of 0.01 bitcoin for a AMA post. Almost spent 90ish bucks to get it to an even 1 for OCD reasons. Bought games instead.

I just recovered the account after 11 years...it's still there. The 700 would be 70,000 had I just listened to my OCD brain 11 years ago....

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