Someone bought 2 pizzas with 10,000 bitcoin in 2010 – today they’re worth $20 million

Poor Laszlo Hanyecz … I hope those pizza at least tasted good … if I was in his shoes, I would be pretty much be in a state of perpetual nausea

Someone bought 2 pizzas with 10,000 bitcoins in 2010 — today they’re worth $20 million
from http://uk.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-pizza-day-passes-2000-20-million-2017-5

On May 22, 2010, a developer bought two pizzas for 10,000 units of a then-little-known digital currency called Bitcoin.

Today, those 10,000 bitcoins are worth more than $20 million (£15.4 million).

Bitcoin is going absolutely nuclear now. Its price is tearing upwards, with each bitcoin currently worth $2,128 (£1,638) — a little shy of all-time-high of $2,185 (£1,682), earlier this morning.

Just a year ago, it was trading at just $443 (£341), after deflating from what was then seen as the giddy highs of around $1,100 (£847) in late 2013. It has since embarked on an epic bull run.

“The Japanese have caught the Bitcoin bug and inefficiencies across markets are being exposed,” CryptoCompare founder Charles Hayter said in an emailed comment. “Irrational exuberance is taking hold as the Japanese stumble over each other to enter the Bitcoin market and drag up international prices.”

The digital currency has come a l ...