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...