This Pizza Cost $750,000 in Today's Bitcoins

#1

Post by laferrera » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 6:13 PM UTC

This Pizza Cost $750,000 in Today's Bitcoins
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Re: This Pizza Cost $750,000 in Today's Bitcoins

#2

Post by drharris » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 8:01 PM UTC

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

Re: This Pizza Cost $750,000 in Today's Bitcoins

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Post by ScottWhigham » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:19 PM UTC

drharris wrote: post #2

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...

Re: This Pizza Cost $750,000 in Today's Bitcoins

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Post by pavel_lishin » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 10:03 PM UTC

drharris wrote: post #2

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

Does it state anywhere in the article that it is?

Re: This Pizza Cost $750,000 in Today's Bitcoins

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Post by drharris » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #4

drharris wrote: post #2

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

Does it state anywhere in the article that it is?

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