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The Big Mac That Cost $380,000: Why The Early Bitcoin Believer Who Paid 3.5 BTC For The Burger Has Zero Regrets
The story about the purchase of Papa John’s pizzas using Bitcoin is legendary, but did you know that someone also once paid for a Big Mac with the world’s largest cryptocurrency Big Mac For 3.5 BTC? Kane Ellis, an Australian entrepreneur, was one of the early believers in Bitcoin and started mining the cryptocurrency in 2010. In a January podcast, he revealed that he was mining three BTC a day at one point. The interesting part — he used the mined BTC to pay for his daily expenses. “I think it was roughly about three and a half Bitcoin, which is what I was mining in a day sometimes,” Ellis said. “It was a ... (full story)
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