Lily Allen shouldn't feel too bad. At the time, she had no way of knowing if bitcoin was going to be the next beenz or e-cash. (Upon which investors lost hundreds of millions of dollars).
"Lily Allen has admitted her regret at turning down "hundreds of thousands of bitcoin" in payment for an online concert that would now be worth at least 20 times the £6m fortune she has earned from album and single sales and royalties.
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Since then, though, they have soared in value. Today they are hovering around £590 each, meaning a fee of 200,000BTC would now be worth £118m to the singer if she had kept them – almost 20 times what she is now reported to be worth, according to last year’s Sunday Times Rich List."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10556820/Lily-Allen-regrets-turning-down-118m-bitcoin-payday.html
"Lily Allen has admitted her regret at turning down "hundreds of thousands of bitcoin" in payment for an online concert that would now be worth at least 20 times the £6m fortune she has earned from album and single sales and royalties.
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Since then, though, they have soared in value. Today they are hovering around £590 each, meaning a fee of 200,000BTC would now be worth £118m to the singer if she had kept them – almost 20 times what she is now reported to be worth, according to last year’s Sunday Times Rich List."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10556820/Lily-Allen-regrets-turning-down-118m-bitcoin-payday.html