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.”
News by Hannah Sparks, New York Post 25th May 2021 12:46 PM In May 2010, California student Jeremy Sturdivant, then 19, noticed a bizarre request on a cryptocurrency Internet forum: He could receive 10,000 bitcoins, at the time reportedly valued at roughly $41, in exchange for the delivery of two large pizzas to Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz, 28. Sturdivant filled the order, sending him two large pizzas (cheese and supreme ) from Papa John s - a transaction that would become the first physical purchase made with bitcoin in history, marked by the annual Bitcoin Pizza Day on May 22. But Sturdivant didn t save the bitcoins for the future; instead, he spent them
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BITCOIN trader Stefan Thomas lost almost £200million worth of the crypto because he forgot his password - saying the blunder left him feeling like a complete idiot .
The devastated German felt the sting as a simple slip of the mind meant he lost access to the 7,002 coins - which are now worth £189,905,495. Read our cryptocurrency live blog for the latest Bitcoin updates
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Bitcoins are highly volatile and one of the most popular cryptocurrenciesCredit: Getty
Thomas is just one of the many Bitcoin traders who have seen their fortunes go missing - with an estimated £100billion worth of the highly volatile cryptocurrency now left stranded and inaccessible in the ether online.
Student, 19, who got paid £250m in Bitcoin to deliver two pizzas spent it all on road trip
Jeremy Sturdivant got 10,000 coins in return for two pizzas back when the currency was nearly worthless, but missed out on tens of millions by spending them
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