14 years ago today, I purchased a $5 Little Caesars Pizza for 3,500 BTC. Unknown to me, 13 days later a programer would Spend 10,000 BTC on a Pizza also.

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14 years ago today, I purchased a $5 Little Caesars Pizza for 3,500 BTC. Unknown to me, 13 days later a programer would Spend 10,000 BTC on a Pizza also.

14 years ago I was a 18 year old. Just finished highschool. Grew up poor. Was still poor. While playing a Free FPS Game called " WarRock". I was getting hungry. Went in the kitchen, only thing I could find was a slim Jim. I was thinking about how to get some money to get something to eat. I wondered about those Internet coins someone had given me in February 2010. I wondered if I could trade those for PayPal funds. I went on MPGH.Net a game hacking forum and messaged a few people ive done trades with before. One said instead if I give him 3,500 Bitcoin he'd give me a $10 VVC(Virtual Visa Card). So after he explained over a hour how to get the Bitcoin to him. He gave me the card. I figured, hey $10 I can get a $5 Hot and Ready pizza and a drink. So I walked to Little Caesars, took a little bit of convincing for them to manually enter the virtual card with no name on it. I got my pizza, my drink(Code Red MTN Dew #1 drink). I went home and ate pizza with my mom.

Posted a status on Facebook, "I just bought a hot and ready with 3,500 Bitcoin! I'm happy to be alive". I didn't think hey 14 years later, almost double my age that this worthless internet coins I just spent on a pizza would be worth over $220 million dollars. And even if I did know that, I would have still did it. Me and my mom got to eat, and Frankly I was very happy to be alive.

The only thing I have to remind my self of this, is my Facebook memory that pops up every May 9th and my memory. The forum I was using is dead and corrupted. I can't view my private message. Am I mad I did this, now that Bitcoin is worth so much? No not really. I like my life how it is. I wouldn't change it. I hope the dude I traded kept them. I hope he's still hodling.

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