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2 most popular crypto, Ether on the Ethereum blockchain The value of crypto tracked by is valued at $1.56 trillion as of Saturday afternoon, with bitcoin representing 45% of that value and the No. Hanyecz has been interviewed many times and his pizza purchase has come to be reflected upon as one of the key moments in the evolution of bitcoin and the decentralized, distributed-ledger technology that would ultimately buttress a crypto market that was worth about $2.5 trillion at its peak. After all, how was he to know that bitcoin would be the progenitor of a crypto revolution that would eventually see its price surge to the stratosphere. The programmer was quoted by CoinTelegraph back in 2018 as saying that he had “no regrets” about shelling out bitcoin that he had mined willy-nilly more than a decade ago. Hanyecz would go on to shell out 100,000 bitcoin that would now be worth $3.8 billion, according to the U.S. The valuation is despite a blistering selloff for bitcoin that has seen the virtual asset tumble more than 40% since a peak around mid April.Īt that peak, Hanyecz’s yen for pizza would put him out approximately $680 million, assuming he held on to the virtual currency, which was engineered by a person (or persons) identifying themselves as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. Would be valued at approximately $380 million at the current rate for the world’s most prominent crypto, which was last changing hands at roughly $38,000 on CoinDesk on Saturday.