Lazlo Hanesh: “Actually, I spent about 50,000 BTC on pizza”

One of the first bitcoin miners, Laszlo Hanyecz, famous for buying a pizza for 10,000 BTC in 2010,He said that he actually spent five times more on this purchase.

In an interview with Cointelegraph, Hanesh saidwhich in total produced about 100,000 BTC, and about half of them went to buy pizza. The remaining 50,000 BTC he spent on the purchase of other things, or simply handed out. It turns out that with a Bitcoin exchange rate of $ 20,000, Lazlo Hanesh could have a fortune of $ 2 billion.

“I spent about half of the bitcoins minedfor pizza, and I handed out the second half or bought something else. In general, I made a profit of several thousand dollars, maybe. It was enough for me to build a new computer for mining Bitcoin, ”said Hanesh.

Interestingly, one day he did not have enough money forthe purchase of two slices of pizza, so he persuaded the seller to give one slice for 6,000 BTC. However, Hanesh does not think that he miscalculated and does not regret the missed opportunity to become a billionaire:

“I was not particularly greedy. I did not think about overpaying, or something like that. With 100,000 BTC, I would be a billionaire now. But I wouldn’t eat that pizza then, ”he joked.

Now, the cryptocurrency community annually celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day on May 22. It was on this day 10 years ago that Lazlo Hanesh bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 BTC.

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