I bought inventory for my online business with my bitcoin back in 2016, when bitcoin was still at around $700. Looking back, since my profit margins were only like 30%, I definitely could've earned A LOT more money if I just held, knowing that we're now in the $33k+ range.

Regardless though, even though I should've just used my fiat savings, the knowledge I've earned from starting that business(SEO, advertising, etc) was worth far more than the profit I could've earned by just holding bitcoin.

I earned from bounty and translation service with total amount in my address 5.1 BTC from 2014-2016 and i already withdraw it all when bitcoin around $573 per coin i dont know will be ATH in 2017 my account got hacked i dont know how to retrive it till 2020 and now i dont have it even 0.00000 all so yeah my LIFEEE is unpredictable  and watch another ATH with smile face :')

I used to have tens of BTC before. I used them in all kinds of expenses. I bought petty stuff with them, paid some bills without converting into fiat, paid debts, and so on. I cashed out some. I traveled with my BTC funds and so forth. I should already be kind of rich today if I didn't spend a Satoshi from my Bitcoin portfolio before.

But, well, I needed to spend some of it. And I was also carried away by certain price hikes which, on hindsight, were actually nothing but tiny steps compared to what Bitcoin has made in the past few days. Who would have thought, right? Bitcoin at $10,000 used to be unimaginable those days.

All the memories when related to the Pizza bought during the very beginning days and what we've reached right now will make the early time spending and with zero wallet balance feel bad. I have an experience where I didn't buy anything, but lost more than 0.7btc in the previous year on gambling. When calculated with the current price it was around $25000 and my wallet is empty now.

Everybody is surprised and happy to see Bitcoin prices skyrocketing and crossing $30k mark for the first time in history after ATH in 2017 when prices sparked around $22000 but now we are here after 3 years with charts turning green and lines rising above the graph with increased market valuation. Whosoever have spend it or used it might be regretting at this time because it had given more than 300% returns alone this year and I am one of the person who got influenced that it will not grow high anytime soon so the money I got from bounty campaigns in 2017-2018 I spend most of them buying various stuffs for me and enjoying just for a short span of time but now it's feel really bad not having much of them or say losing your wealth by 70-80.But still I am hoping for its betterment and again to come back in market and invest more of it and just to HODL until the prices reached another milestone this year.Spend wisely every btc because $1 worth of it could become $1000 who knows how fast but it surely will be at that point so be wise enough to keep up.

You got it, buddy, who would have thought that Bitcoin, which was only worth pizza, has now reached $ 30k. there is no time travel in the real world, if there is I will buy 100 bitcoins in 2009. and I am also a little sorry because I know this forum is in 2016, which should have entered this forum in the range of 2013-2014, so knowledge about investment My bitcoin would have been honed if at that time I had learned about the crypto world.

Bitcoin pizza is one of the historic event that had happen in bitcoin. It became a sensational event for bitcoin as for the record that bitcoin was use to buy pizza by one of the early bitcoiners.

Now, bitcoin pizza could become a new craze and that could let anyone buy pizza using bitcoin. Sad but here in our place there is no pizza willing to accept bitcoin as option of payment. Besides, bitcoin is so expensive at the moment and so hard to predict bitcoin market movement. Still, who do not like pizza BTW?

You are right about sharing the memories but others can certainly learn from our past mistakes just like how I have learn from the message post already by some members.

To be honest, I gamble once in a while and i haven't gambled for the last 3months but have lost BTC to MMM Japan investment ROI back in the year 2016 before the ATH price.

I bought a budget gaming PC for around 1.2 BTC in 2016. But I have no regrets, because I still have enough coins to consider myself happy, and back then I though I still have enough coins to accumulate before "moon", which I in some sense did.


The important part that a lot of people miss is that Laszlo "the pizza guy" Hanyecz is an early adopter who worked on Bitcoin Core and corresponded with Satoshi, he probably still owns enough coins to live a happy life. This is the true lesson of "Bitcoin Pizza" - don't regret the past if you're doing great today.

What goes around, comes around ... !?


Meet the Man Who Spent 10,000 BTC on Two Pizzas ...
- https://blog.coinmarketcap.com/2020/05/23/meet-the-man-who-spent-10000-btc-on-two-pizzas/

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Original bitcoin.org FAQ - snapshot Jan 14th 2010

- https://web.archive.org/web/20100114172032/http://www.bitcoin.org/node/1#What_is_Bitcoins_value_backed_by

Excerpt;

... "What is Bitcoin’s value backed by?

Bitcoin is valued for the things it can be exchanged to, just like all the traditional paper currencies are.

When the first user publicly announces that he will make a pizza for anyone who gives him enough Bitcoins, then he can use Bitcoins as payment to some extent - as much as people want pizza and trust his announcement. A pizza-eating hairdresser who trusts him as a friend might then announce that she starts accepting Bitcoins as payment for fancy haircuts, and the value of the Bitcoin would be higher - now it would be backed by pizzas ''and'' haircuts. When Bitcoins have become accepted widely enough, he could retire from his pizza business and still be able to use his Bitcoin-savings.

Currently, Bitcoin is in beta development stage, and some new features need to be implemented before the system is well suited for real use. The system already works on the basic level, though, and you can trade with it if you want to." ...

 

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"Pizza for bitcoins?" - May 18, 2010
- https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/137.0

- https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/137.msg1153#msg1153

- https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/137.msg1183#msg1183

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The Broken - Episode 1
- https://youtu.be/tNjoo9TuCHY?t=551