I guess i should have payed attention to my weird student so long ago.
What would have been worse is if you accepted the 10 bitcoins and then lost access to your wallet. It's estimated that 20% of all bitcoins have been lost or are unrecoverable...I know people who lost wallets of coins that were worth very little when they had them, but skyrocketed in value later. That really gets to you.
Oh yeah, that's very likely too as the Hard drive I had at the time ended up getting corrupted about 5 years ago and became liberally redistributed across a gravel pit with the help of some tannerite.
But yeah I've always got a kick out of the articles that have come out over the years of people searching landfills in vain for their old HDDs that contain their wallet.
Yeah I've been kicking myself for the last decade for not accepting 10 bitcoins for a bag of weed back in 2011.