{"id":49927,"date":"2025-09-28T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=49927"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:16:32","slug":"the-big-mac-that-cost-380000-why-the-early-bitcoin-believer-who-paid-3-5-btc-for-the-burger-has-zero-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=49927","title":{"rendered":"The Big Mac That Cost $380,000: Why The Early Bitcoin Believer Who Paid 3.5 BTC For The Burger Has Zero Regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The story about the purchase of Papa John\u2019s pizzas using <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) is legendary, but did you know that someone also once paid for a Big Mac with the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big Mac For 3.5 BTC?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kane Ellis<\/strong>, an Australian entrepreneur, was one of the early believers in Bitcoin and started mining the cryptocurrency in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In a January podcast, he revealed that he was mining three BTC a day at one point. The interesting part \u2014 he used the mined BTC to pay for his daily expenses. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was roughly about three and a half Bitcoin, which is what I was mining in a day sometimes,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cIt was a delicious meal. No one can deny that Big Mac\u2019s not a good meal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellis narrated that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/09\/47906864\/the-big-mac-that-cost-380000-why-the-early-bitcoin-believer-who-paid-3-5-btc-for-the-burger\" alt=\"The\" big mac that cost why the early bitcoin believer who paid btc for burger has zero regrets>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story about the purchase of Papa John\u2019s pizzas using Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is legendary, but did you know that someone also once paid for a Big Mac with the world\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-49927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}