⚡️💦 NEW - A Pokémon card collector lost his entire collection after water damage. A broken sewer pipe flooded his basement, rendering all his cards and sealed products irrecoverable. The water was classified as "category 3," the highest level of contamination, associated with hazardous waste.

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This is how money used to die back in the day. What collectables people held onto that just lost their value gradually or all at once. People don't go out of their way to adopt hard money. The people who hold lesser goods just don't survive. This collection was probably just that though, a hobby.
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Hofer99 1 month ago
Lost cards just make all the other cards more valuable. Consider it a gift to humanity.
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A.A.Ron 1 month ago
I bet the ones in sealed packs are fine.
Not a total loss. Hit them with a UV light. Poop-achu, I choose you! 💩⚡️
Considering how gold doesn't tarnish, this was probably one of its great selling points. You can store it, and it will survive leaks, fire, whatever. Bitcoin does feel like paper by comparison considering that it isn't the metal that we need to worry about, but the information on it that can become illegible or more concerningly be lifted. Being virtual makes bitcoin keys super magical, it can teleport, exist in many places at once, expire (with taproot), or disappear. This is super powerful but also super unintuitive as a piece of property. Just one of the many reasons people find it so intimidating.
Pretty hard to understand why someone would put it on the ground floor. At least put in on a shelve.