It’s worth mentioning that BTC was not guaranteed to grow by the orders of magnitude that it did and that some people actually had to use it for real world transactions for it to gain some traction. At least one pizza had to be sacrificed for BTC to become what it is today.

Yes, I chose the example deliberately :)

I've got a friend who threw out $20M in bitcoin (at today's prices) by mistake. I wonder how often he thinks of that.