Bitcoin Pizza Day replay: A admiration of mysterious and wonderful BTC purchases
Happy Bitcoin Pizza! Before you dial for a Margherita to commemorate the world’s first Bitcoin transaction, here’s a little trivia:
What do a family holiday to Japan, a 50 Cent album? A steak dinner and a framed cat photo all have in common?
They were all transacted with Bitcoin (BTC) by members of the cryptolifedigital Bitcoin community! And just like the Bitcoin Pizzas that cost 10,000 BTC, which are now worth more than $300 million, the community’s Bitcoin purchases have also skyrocketed.
Benjamin de Waal, the VP of Engineering at Bitcoin exchange Swan Bitcoin told Cointelegraph, “I spent 7 BTC on a family trip to Japan a few years back”
In today’s value, 7 BTC is worth well over $200,000 — but Ben’s happy because his kids are happy:
“It would have been worth a lot more now, but I don’t regret it at all. A good childhood full of adventure, fun, and learning is priceless.”
That is a $30,000 bet at BTC’s current market price.
Jeffrey Albus, Editor at Cointelegraph, shared that he splashed out on a steak dinner to demonstrate Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer capabilities “sometime in 2011 or early 2012.”
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“We paid 15 BTC — 12 for the meal, plus 3 BTC left as a tip (which the waitress probably threw away.)”
Worse still, the value of 15 BTC back over ten years ago was so small that it fell short of the total bill: Albus had to top it up with good old greenbacks. The value of the Bitcoiner-appropriate steak dinner is now worth shy of half a million dollars.
In a word to the prudent, Julien Liniger, CEO of Swiss Bitcoin exchange Relay-and a Bitcoin maximalist through and through, told Cryptolifedigital that he “bought a bitcoin hoodie for 0.1 BTC back in the days, but that was the last thing” — a roughly $3,000 hoodie. He explained that “it then became too stupid of a thing to me to spend instead of stack sats.”
However, the team at CoinCorner, the UK Bitcoin exchange behind the Contactless Lightning Network Payment card, shared a few stories. shared a few stories. Danny Scott, the CEO, bought the 50 Cent album “Animal Ambition” with Bitcoin when the market price was around $600. 50 Cent famously “forget” he accepted 700 BTC for the album let’s hope Scott forgets the missed gains too!
Molly Spiers, CoinCorner’s Head of Marketing, told Cointelegraph, “I bought a photo postcard of my cats […] for 0.009 BTC.” The $270 postcard was sadly not enough for Spiers to keep a hold of it; ‘I’ve lost them somewhere over the years – I’d have framed them with pride!”
Fortunately, there are “no regrets,” as it does “make for a good story.” Plus, she shared a picture of the cats:
While “experimenting with Bitcoin as a currency,” Matthew Ward, CoinCorner’s software developer, told Cointelegraph that he “bought the game Cities Skylines back when it launched on Steam in March 2015 for 0.108 BTC.” You can be the judge of whether the graphics merit a $3,000 price tag:
In conclusion, Didi Taihuttu, known as a father of the Bitcoin family and sometimes the Bitcoin tattoo guy, spent 2.75 BTC on a Bitcoin miner in 2014. Taihuttu told Cryptolifedigital that “the strangest part is that when BTC hit around $200, I gave up mining BTC and started to mine dogecoin (DOGE)”. He had held the BTC, he would have roughly above $180,000.
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Taihuttu also shared that in the course of his adventures as The Bitcoin Family, he has parted with over 9 BTC which is worth $270.000, he described it as “losing 9 BTC but gaining an amazing adventure.”
And for those wondering what happened to the 10,000 BTC Hanyecz spent on the pizza, as stated by Cryptolifedigital research, 5% of the landed in a wealthy wallet, while “ some of the funds were seemingly liquidated” on an unsuccessful crypto exchange.
The wealthy wallet that chowed down on some of Hanyecz’s BTC is in the top 15 richest wallets in Bitcoin, accumulating over 53,000 BTC. The total spent or sent from the wallet is 0 BTC: a certified Bitcoin Hodler.
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