>offering 10 000 bitcoins in exchange for some pizza and somebody there said hey i’ll you know i’ll take you up on that offer so i sent him the 10 000 bitcoin i said okay here it is you know i’m waiting for my pizza and you know he phoned it in he paid with his credit card and the pizza showed up at my door here you can see the original pizzas and that’s my daughter’s hand she was a year old wow so um you paid you paid 10 000 bitcoins for one pizza it was two pizzas actually two pizzas and uh i mean you know maybe the person spent thirty forty dollars something like that what would it what would it be worth today eighty million dollars i don’t know 80 million dollars a lot people laugh at that but at the time it wasn’t worth anything right
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This man is a legend and a trailblazer. Without people like him, BTC might not have taken off the way it did.
I wonder if that was all his BTC
That Hawaiian shirt on an interview tells me he’s already planning his boating accident
This kind of shit is why I dont have any feelings about not buying bitcoin when I first heard about it back in 2012. Sure if I had bought it and held for 9-10 years I’d be retired. But I was in my early 20s and if I had bought bitcoin back then, I would have sold it after a couple hundred dollars profit and bought weed with it. There’s no chance I would have held onto it back then and its a waste of time and emotional energy to regret thinking about what ifs.
If he had 10k to pay for pizza, no doubt he had a few hundred ks more
You know he was using cryptocurrency, adopting it early and had no way knowing it would be worth much.
The real question is did The guy who received the bitcoin HODL?? 🤔 👀
He saw the whole rise of bitcoin.
That’s just brutal.
He should apply to be a mod on r/buttcoin.
I think in 10 year’s time we’ll all have those transactions that will haunt us
Somebody had to go first. He’s a hero. He should never have to pay for his own pizza or beer again as long as he lives.
1700 Bitcoin for the pizza gift card and a heat sink from newegg lol
Hey, if you’ve got a measly 10k btc laying around, I know a guy who will give you 3 pizza’s for them…
One of my friend bought a condo for BTC in early 2010s. He is worth hundred of millions in crypto today, but would be worth significantly more if he didn’t do that haha.
The whole HODL movement is standing on his shoulders. What a legend.
Without him, bitcoin wouldn’t be what it is today. He took one for the team.
We hear so much about the guy who sold his btc for some pizza but I would love to hear from the guy who got 10k bitcoins for a pizza.
Wonder if he managed to hang on to it or if he traded it for a kebab
You’re OG man
This man is a legend. It only cost him $50 to go down in history as the very first man to use cryptos.
Jacksonville FL right?
The pain in his eyes… it’s still there, I can see it
People talk about these pizzas, but until ASICs made it impossible people were mining and then spending Bitcoin on upgrading their rig to mine faster. Since you can retire on 100 BTC there’s a LOT more people we could be talking about.
He’s obviously about to cry. But on the hindsight, what he said was true, bitcoin isn’t worth anything **that time** and it was a good trade for something you can eat. But it doesn’t seem convincing if he said it with eyes and face like that.
I could laugh just the same at guys who bought weed for thousands of btc, they bought weed worth millions of dollars if you think about it.
That pizza pic should be an NFT. Thank you, I’m happy if you share 10% with me once you sell it!
Did he keep in btc that is the question we all want to know and it’s not being answered
Pretty sure this guy had why more than 10,000 btc. He is probably living it up right now.
They were Papa Johns pizzas on top of that. Rough
Hopefully it wasn’t all of his Bitcoin and I doubt it was
This is freaking awesome
I bought $100 worth of Bitcoin either in 2011 or 2012 to buy In to poker stars and was pissed when it only gave me 70 Bitcoin. I was like wtf why isn’t it 100? Needless to say I never did that again.
I always here this story but whatever happened to the person that received the 10,000 Bitcoins for providing the pizza? Is that person rich?
I wad afraid you were going to show us a picture of a dead body.
There is an unconfirmed rumor that Satoshi was pissed at Lazlo for writing the code that enabled mining with GPUs. Some say the pizza incident was Lazlo’s penance and an attempt to redistribute some of his stack.
Let’s hope he at least had 10,001 BTC…
RL story from me:
I’ve had long talks with my current boss and he used to own like 20 BTC or more back when BTC was just like 70Cent or something and he did the same.. went all in for Pizza and made someone today a millionaire 😀
He was wiser than 20 yo me, to buy crypto.
I’m still kicking myself because I wanted to buy BTC a lot of time 10 years ago, but never fully committed.
I can’t help but wonder if he had way more btc & is actually well off regardless of his TMNT impulse purchase. If not, I bet someone has, or will give him btc for being such a staple.
He used bitcoin to buy food for his kids and a was a pioneer in utilising the tech, that’s not stupid at all. Yes in hindsight with the info we have now it’s upsetting to think about how much money he exchanged for the pizza, but the situation was completely different back then. There’s no point mocking him or laughing about it.
That guy didn’t lose anything more than the difference between the market rate at that time and the price of 2 pizzas. If they were selling for $0.10 for example, then he lost (10,000 x 0.1 – $40 = $960)
No more no less. Because YOU could have decided to buy 9,600 bitcoin for that same $960 as well, that same day. The fact that YOU did not do so is not any amount more or less stupid or unfortunate than this guy buying the pizzas was.
If he really wanted to he could have just bought another 10k Bitcoin? What was the actual price at the time? Presumably about 2 pizzas? I don’t understand why this is attracts mockery. It’s not like he was forced to cash out his investment to feed his family, he just made a fair value exchange.
This happened in my city in Jacksonville 😂 I really wanna know which papa johns delivered the pizzas haha