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Woman spent $550,000 worth of bitcoin on sushi and made the restaurant owner rich – NEWS.com.au
Woman spent $550,000 worth of bitcoin on sushi and made the restaurant owner rich
A tech writer has revealed how she blew bitcoin now worth almost $550,000 on a sushi dinner for strangers.Kashmir Hill revealed she spent 10 of the crypto coins at restaurant Sake Zone in San Francisco while doing a piece for Forbes in 2013.
And some seven years later she revealed restaurant owner Yung Chen still has much of her bitcoin, using the fortune in part to retire.
Ms Hill revealed her experience in a piece for The New York Times, saying she thought it was “silly” that bitcoin could become…
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