Fun Bitcoin stories never get old. Most of us know about the guy who bought a pizza with Bitcoin, but here are some other fun tales from Bitcoin history.
With the idea to decentralize payments, Bitcoin (BTC) also gave us some of the most hilarious stories as well. The peer-to-peer electronic payment system has immensely grown up since 2009 when pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin.
There are only a few who have kept BTC for a long time, many others, on the other hand, have either lost access to their crypto wallets or sold for a bit of profit. BeInCrypto has gathered some of the long-forgotten and exciting stories of the digital currency ecosystem.
A StarCraft gaming competition in 2011
In Feb 2011, a military-themed science fiction video game called StarCraft held a competition, iCCup Star League, that gathered 56 players from around the world. BTCsportsbet.com was one of the sponsors and the prize pool was just over $1,000 with the top prize being $500 and 25 bitcoins for the 5th to 8th winners.
Bitcoin was traded at $1.65 at the time of the tournament and the total prize was worth $41.25. Furthermore, four players that go by the nicknames Sziky, Kolll, Hejek and Jumper won 25 bitcoins each. There are no reports if the winners kept their bitcoins or not.
Reminder: Bitcoin pizza day
May 22, 2010, also known as the “Bitcoin Pizza Day” was the day that the first commercial Bitcoin transaction happened. Laszlo Hanyecz who is a programmer from Florida bought two Papa John’s pizzas with 10,000 bitcoin, worth around $40 at the time.
Hanyecz told The Sun that he doesn’t regret it. “I think that it’s great that I got to be part of the early history of Bitcoin in that way.”
He mined those bitcoins through his own program that used a computer’s graphics card and purchased those pizzas because to him “it was free pizzas.”
“I mean, I coded this thing and mined Bitcoin and I felt like I was winning the internet that day,” he added.
Hanyecz pizzas made him one of the crypto hall of famers. If he held those Bitcoins until today, they would be worth around $440 million now.
Funniest Bitcoin story ever”
A BitcoinTalk user that goes by “Vinz1992” shared a story about a middle-aged couple who were scammed with Bitcoin. He said:
“A middle-aged couple bought 1 BTC for a 1000 USD recently. They were happy beyond what can be described in words at the good deal they had got. So they got in touch with my friend to ask him about how they could sell it.”
Vinz1992 added, “He sent them the links to various medium articles and blog posts on how to buy and sell bitcoin. The couple got in touch with him again and told him that they had failed to sell the bitcoin. So my friend went and met them. They then showed him their bitcoin. It was a plastic coin with the Bitcoin symbol on it!”
