Bitcoin high rollers can’t be expected to stay at fleapits, so we are putting you up in the Encore Salon Suites at the Wynn Hotel. We’d rent two of them, each for two people to stay in, so that you’re not cramped. That costs $8300, bringing your grand total to around $50,800.
Oh, you want to gamble, as well? Let’s round it up to $55,000, then, because we hear the drinks are free, and they do those cheap seafood buffets. You still get to go 320 times, assuming that you lose your entire kitty every time you fly.
543 dinners with Barack Obama
How about sitting down for a friendly bite with President Barack Obama? He recently held a fundraiser at the home of Vogue editor Anna Wintour, where people paid $32,400 a plate to dine with him. Apparently, you get a photo with him, as well.
Technically speaking, you’d be able to do this 543 times, at which point you might have run out of things to talk about. To be honest, it might take a few of those dinners to politely inform him how the government should be dealing with it. Try not to get too worked up and point your fork.
Luckily for you, that $32,400 figure is significant, because it’s the most that an individual can donate to the Democratic party in 2014, which means that one plate of steak diane is all you can buy, even if it’s far less than you can afford.
So, you’d either have to sponsor 542 friends to do the same thing, or just switch allegiance to the Republicans instead, and donate a bit more to other causes. It seems to work okay for the Koch brothers.
890 trips in a MIG
The MIG-29 was introduced in 1983, just over a quarter century before Satoshi figured out how to create bitcoin. It’s still in service, and in between patrolling the Ukrainian border, it also does day trips.
MIG picture via Krasimir GrozevYou can fly one for 45 minutes for just under $20,000. That also gets you two nights in a five-star Moscow hotel, and another two nights in a four-star, nearer to the launch site 400km away.
You’ll get the chance to do some aerobatics, including rolls, loops, and tail slides. Bonus points if you can create a vapour trail mimicking the price of bitcoin over the past year.
You can’t fit many people in a MIG-29, meaning that the flight will be Winkelvoss free. Although by the time you’ve completed almost 900 flights, you might still feel a little queasy.
One million Empire Manhattans at Evr
30,000 BTC will buy you just over one million Manhattan Empires at Evr, the New York bar founded by Charlie Shrem last year. The Empire Manhattan is a saucy little mix of rye or bourbon, Vermouth, Angustora Bitters, and brandied cherry with orange peel. You might have to drink them over a few sittings, though.
Shrem may even be able to join you there. The bitcoin entrepreneur, facing federal money-laundering charges, was told in May that he could leave the house between 9 AM and 9 PM, Sunday through Thursday.
Nearly two million pizzas
Back in 2010, a pizza cost 10,000 BTC, apparently. That’s how much Florida programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid for “a couple of pizzas, like maybe two large ones so I have some left over for the next day”.
These days, you can pick up two medium two topping pizzas from Domino’s for 0.03050 bitcoins, and you don’t have to pay someone halfway around the world to help you out.
It means that you could happily chow down on 983,606 pizzas. Oh, hang on, though – you get two in your order, so that’s 1,967,213 pies. Although you should probably pick some of the sausage off, because that’s a lot of fat, you know?
Or you could go upmarket a bit, and buy some Pizza Royales. Forget your all-dressed nonsense here. Domenico Crolla created what is said to be the most expensive Pizza in the world. It’s a 12-inch pie, with caviar soaked in Don Perignon, Scottish smoked salmon, lobster marinated in Cognac, venison medallions, and a vintage balsamic vinegar. He used “a significant amount” of edible 24 carat gold flakes as topping. Which would be appropriate, we guess, if you ever make it to David Siegel’s bathroom.
It sold for $4200 at auction, meaning that you could buy 4,192 of them. Actually, 4,192.8, which means that you could give away a few slices if you were really stuffed.
Any other ideas for what you’d spend 30,000 BTC on? Let us know in the comments.
Pizza image via Shutterstock
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Original author: Danny Bradbury