From (((Wikipedia))) Yes, I know that Wikipedia's founder (((Jimmy Wales))) was a "porn king" who sold online pornography before launching Wikipedia. But whether true or not, this is the official story:
"On 22 May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first real-world transaction by buying two pizzas in Jacksonville, Florida for 10,000 BTC. In five days, the price grew 1000%, rising from $0.008 to $0.08 for 1 bitcoin."
At the moment, we are talking about around $140,000,000. Ok, I am perfectly willing to accept that this 2010 transaction may have been innocent and related to a cheap dinner. But seriously, what are the odds? Also, the unknown creator(s) of bitcoin and their close associates knew it could take off big time. A port city in Florida? Someone with two young humans (well past their best by date?) to traffic might have taken a flyer on the new crypto currency and wanted to make a historical inside joke. And who would have been more interested in an almost untraceable payment system than those wanting to buy and sell children?
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Are_we_sure ago
this is cukoo bananas pants thinking.
It's also a logical fallacy known as the Historian's fallacy. AKA Hindsight is 20/20.
Historian’s Fallacy (also known as: retrospective determinism, hindsight)
Description: Judging a person's decision in the light of new information not available at the time.
Bitcoin was less than a penny when this guy made his offer for two pizzas. For your story to work, he had to know that bitcoin would reach its present values. And there's no way he could have known that. Bitcoin prices have spiked and have dropped in the past.
Essentially, you are viewing choices made in 2010 through the information you could have only gotten in 2017.
finska ago
I happen to agree with this. The value of all the bitcoin in circulation until very recently has not been enough to be used to pay for nefarios and usually expensive things such as organs, drugs or cheese pizza.......