Laszlo might have bought other things with bitcoin (pizzas) inclusive. But for record purposes, it is good that we stick with what is known and official than speculate. There is a clear reference in the forum when Laszlo announced he wanted a pizza, who was interested and a feedback message that the pizza was delivered and also a Blockchain record for it.
Even Laszlo himself during interviews never mentioned 40,000 BTC.
Imagine what he feels whenever bitcoin pizza day is mentioned! At least I hope he is rich now other than not having thousands of bitcoins. This should be recorded on the book of guinness, bitcoin should be recorded there as well, where in the world can you pay 10,000 units of something for 30$ pizza and after 13 years you could still buy a pizza for 30$ but those 10,000 units worth more than $250 M.🤑
40,000
BTC, not 10,000
BTC. Massive regret.
No regrets mate.
Laszlo said he has no regrets till date. Even if he didn't buy pizza with the BTC, there was no way he would have saved them till today.
I just guessed, at the beginning he must have regretted it, because humans must have regrets, especially after seeing Bitcoin currently becoming one of the legends in the Cryptocurrency world, even with a very fantastic price. But slowly he will definitely not regret it because he is the one who commemorates Bitcoin Pizza Day, and right this month we will commemorate that day on this forum
Bitcoin Pizza Day Contest and this has become a habit every May.
On the one hand, maybe he slowly doesn't want to regret it anymore because like you said. He bought it using bitcoin because at that time bitcoin was not valuable, even because buying pizza with bitcoin was the first transaction if I'm not mistaken in buying and selling, maybe if he didn't buy pizza using bitcoin, bitcoin wouldn't be like it is now. So actually he didn't lose anything, besides that bitcoin at that time had no guarantee at all. Bitcoin was still very small at that time and could fail, maybe if we were in his position at that time we would do the same thing.