Now, since everyone is celebrating #thebitcoinpizzaday and are pitying that guy buying two pizzas with bitcoin just a decade ago, I'm gonna show my empathy, just like some did related to Carlie Hebdo a few years ago, and wear the "Je suis the pizza guy" badge.
I don't know exactly how much were 10,000 bitcoins valued at the time these have been traded for two pizzas by the California based developer who first used BTC as a currency, but I sure know that today those would be worth $300,000,000.
I don't pity the fool, but neither do I find this pizza guy as being a fool. The way I see it, foolish would have been if he'd held to these 10,000 BTC while going through poverty and refuse to sell even one BTC to make his life better. I also bet he had more than 10,000 and he has not spent his entire holdings on pizza.
The man wanted to make a point... and he did. This one is probably the first BTC purchase ever and we should see it as such. I oftentimes find these types of bitter attitudes while looking back on some assets being spent "years behind", which would be worth a hell lot more now, as being childish.
What does it matter how much 10,000 bitcoin is worth now? That's not the point. The point is that someone bought food with BTC exactly ten years ago. This individual should be given a badge or something, cuz he truly understood BTC.
"Je Suis The Pizza Guy"
I haven't actually spent BTC on anything, but I live off my HIVE earnings, or at least I did that until a couple of months ago and thus I could say that I'm pretty much the same as that guy. HIVE is now valued at around $0.5, it has topped at $3.41 a few months ago and who knows how high will it go in the next decade.
I don't regret spending any damn cryptocurrency, though. I wanna do this full time and I'm gonna take whatever consequences shall be in this regard. Could I be spending away my chance of becoming a millionaire at some point? Maybe, but meanwhile, I'm buying myself free time by being in crypto.
Crypto has to be a currency as much as it is an asset, thus it's probably time we should change the way we see the spending of such currencies. I don't know if that guy regrets spending 10,000 BTC on two pizzas, but if he is in that position I bet that even if he hadn't done that purchase, he wouldn't have been HODLing on them BTCs for a decade.
It doesn't matter how much are 10,000 bitcoins worth now, what matters is the fact that someone started using cryptocurrency as a payment currency a decade ago and that was an important step on the way out of the current financial system. Je suis the pizza guy and I encourage you to do the same, at least once in a while.
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian