History: JPEG worth $1 sold for 500 Bitcoins (5 months before the famous Bitcoin Pizza buy transaction)

Let's take a moment to appreciate the extraordinary journey of (possibly) the very first Bitcoin purchase.

Someone (by the name of Sabunir) found a post on the BitcoinTalk forum from 2010.

Sabunir amazingly put up a JPEG desktop background up for sale (As if he/she was reading into the future and NFTs). ????

And guess what was the price? 500 BTC. ????????

Yes, you read that right, a digital photo sitting on your computer screen for the small price of 500 BTC.

Back then, 500 BTC was worth a measly $1. Today, that’s worth ~$13.4 MILLION (!!) ????????

Cheers to you Sabunir wherever you are, but I wonder if he/she is still holding the majority of the 500 bitcoins.