This Pizza Cost $750,000 in Today's Bitcoins (opens in new tab)

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10 pointslaferrera13y ago4 comments

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This pizza is not "worth" $750,000, it simply cost that much in terms of delayed value of bitcoins.

Exactly. By this same logic, anyone who bought a Babe Ruth baseball card in 1933 for pennies is the winner in terms of percentage of delayed value increase:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1933-Goudey-149-Babe-Ruth-PSA-8-NM-M...

pavel_lishin13y ago

Does it state anywhere in the article that it is?

drharris13y ago

It was the original title of both the linked article and the HN headline. ("This Pizza is worth $750,000")

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drharris13y ago

This pizza is not "worth" $750,000, it simply cost that much in terms of delayed value of bitcoins.

ScottWhigham13y ago

Exactly. By this same logic, anyone who bought a Babe Ruth baseball card in 1933 for pennies is the winner in terms of percentage of delayed value increase:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1933-Goudey-149-Babe-Ruth-PSA-8-NM-M...

pavel_lishin13y ago

Does it state anywhere in the article that it is?

drharris13y ago

It was the original title of both the linked article and the HN headline. ("This Pizza is worth $750,000")

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