And as of Tuesday those 10,000 Bitcoins that he paid Mr Sturdivant would have been worth a stunning $378.7m.
“I had no idea how huge it would become,” said Mr Sturdivant, who did not hold onto the Bitcoin but quickly spent it on traveling.
And he added that he was “proud to have played a part” in the “global phenomenon” that Bitcoin has become.
“If I had treated it as an investment, I might have held on a bit longer,” Mr Sturdivant admitted in 2018.
“I would never have thought that the same number of bitcoin would have a purchasing power on the order of real estate.”