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Nobody Owns Money · Chapter 4

Ten Thousand for a Pizza

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… By the end of the year bitcoin was worth $2, and the sale looked like a lucky one. I made my first thousand dollars in crypto by accident and without understanding what I was holding, that is, the same way millions of people would later make and lose money. At the peak in the autumn of 2025 those 100 coins would have been worth more than $12 million. In interviews Hanyecz repeated many times that he did not regret his pizza. Every year on the twenty-second of May the crypto community celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day, orders pizza and recalculates how much those 10,000 coins would be worth today.