What Would You Buy With 30,000 Bitcoins?

The US Marshals are auctioning off 30,000 BTC. In 2009, that wouldn't have been worth very much, but at the time of writing, CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index puts that at a cool $17,610,000.

It's a tiny fraction of the overall number of bitcoins in circulation, but here at CoinDesk, we certainly wouldn't turn it down.

Now he's back, and building out the rest of the house, although we don't think he won his fortune back investing in bitcoins, sadly.

As it turns out, the market capitalization for namecoin at the time of writing is just a little under $15.8m. So actually, you could pick up all of feathercoin as well, and still have a couple of thousand dollars in bitcoins over in change.

250,000 will get you a trip into space with Virgin Galactic, which you can pay for in bitcoins at the going market rate.

With 30,000 bitcoins, you get to do it another 67 times.

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.

Bonus points if you can create a vapour trail mimicking the price of bitcoin over the past year.

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.

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.