r/AskReddit • u/Previous-Ad3911 • 9d ago

You can have 5000 of anything that starts with Y. What do you choose?

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u/Addendum709 9d ago

Fun fact: 5000 days ago will take you back to October 17, 2010

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u/BaronsDad 9d ago

Nvidia, Tesla, Broadcom, Netflix, Dominos, United Rentals, bitcoin...

MegaMillions Tuesday, March 27, 2012: 9 19 34 44 51 (24)

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u/no-signal 8d ago

Bitcoin was 10 cent. Buy $2000 worth and start dumping slowly every year. You will have way more than 100m in 2024.

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u/imllikesaelp 8d ago

I remember when I figured out how to buy one online, but then realized it was over $100 and didn’t want to waste that much money in case it vanished.

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u/eatmygonks 8d ago

Yup, still hurts

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u/TheGreatZarquon 8d ago

I spent 111 BTC on a large pepperoni and sausage pizza and a 20oz Mountain Dew at a local pizza joint back when BTC was just getting off the ground as a usable currency. That pizza at today's exchange rate would have cost $6,816,110.40.

I think about that pizza a lot.

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u/kaisadilla_ 8d ago

BTC has never been usable as a currency, much less in 2012. There's a story of a guy who "bought" a pizza for 5000 BTC, but even then he actually just paid some guy 5000 BTC to buy a pizza with real dollars for him.

I sincerely doubt your comment.

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam 8d ago

1) Lots of places take BTC as payment, even more than back in 2017-2018 when it took off. It's entirely reasonable that a "local pizza joint" would experiment with this stuff.

2) It was 10.000 BTC and the guy wanted to prove that you can get physical goods in exchange for BTC. Which he got.

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u/TheGreatZarquon 8d ago

The guy that owned that pizza joint was super into computers and started accepting BTC after it started to gain a little traction as a currency. I still keep in touch with the guy on Twitter and he's a massive cryptobro now.