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Bitcoin pizza season is back.
It will be identified since Sunday 15 years since the initial adopted Lasslo Honeyses first posted its historic, cheese request for Bitcointock: Pizza for bitcoin,
HANYECZ boldly offered anyone to pay 10,000 BTC, which can distribute two big pizza – two, “So I have something left for the next day. I like to hand over the remaining pizza later.”
The price of those coins was approximately $ 42 at that time and today more than $ 2 billion, enough to blunt your stomach!
In many ways it was the most important transaction in the history of bitcoin, even today. As Laszlo kept it the best: “Somebody had to start it.”
Bitcoin legends – Laszlo Honeyses
Long time customer Supply shock, When it was called Bitcoin historyFrom last year you can miss our feature profile on Hanyecz.
It performs a great job of plotting the heritage of Honeyses, from the beginning mine, Satoshi colleague, Bitcoin pizza sang and beyond. be sure to See it in our archives,
This time, let’s collect some slices of the story that are left sometime.
1. Honeyses spent bitcoin on pizza.
In June 2010, about a month after the original purchase, Laszlo posted: “This is an open proposal. I will trade 10,000 BTC for 2 of these pizza, until I have money (I usually have a lot). If any is interested, please tell me.”
By August of that year, Laszlo reduced the experiment due to demand. Bitcoin hash rate multiplied more than 26 times since its initial offer, responsible for a demon jump Khan artforze named leading pseudoWho created their own GPU mining software and kept it private for a competitive edge.
“Okay, I didn’t expect it so popular, but I could not really tolerate it because I can’t produce thousands of coins a day. Thanks to all who had already bought me pizza, but I am now stopping any of them and now.”
Laszlo will share in 2014 that he spent every coin mined on the pizza. His bitcoin Address It shows him getting 81,432 BTC, possibly from his mining tasks, in the outgoing transfer of his pizza trades.
Therefore, if Laszlo says is true, it would mean that he spent today’s equivalent $ 8.45 billion On pizza.
If he was held till date, the billionaires of Laszlo Forbes would be only $ 1.5 billion less than Michael Sayler in the rich list. But that Don’t feel like,
2. The other man also sold his bitcoin.
Jeremy “Jeros” Sterdivant was only 18 years old when he used his credit card to buy pizza for Laszlo from state lines.
Jeros was not an active poster on Bitcointock and instead coordinated the deal with Laszlo through IRC, where the two had already crossed the road. It was at the IRC that the student first learned about bitcoins, and considered it interesting in light of e-cool failure around the same time.
He was also a bitcoin minor in himself, by running a cpuminer through the cloud computing service of Linod “probably several thousand coins”.
The student has shown the same grace as Laszlo when he was asked if he regrets the experiment.
“Bitcoin is to be spent as a currency,” he said in one Interview From 2015. “… naturally people will always be people who are coins, trying to be rich, and many people were very rich, but they did not meet this way without the permission of economic development.”
At that time, Jeros still appeared sitting on a few coins, and was actually using them as money.
“To the extent that my bitcoin holdings usually measure in hundreds or thousands of USD, just because I use them a lot because I will make a checking account, when I have an opportunity, to operate both online and offline.”
“Especially ‘humble bundles’ and the attached store accepted my video game library by accepting bitcoin.”
3. Satoshi invented GPU mining before Laszlo.
The mainstream knows most of the honeyses as bitcoin pizza man.
Around these parts, beyond the rubicon, he is also well honored for porting the bitcoin core to the McOS in a week’s space, and is the first person to decide bitcoin with the GPU even before the artforze.
It may be that Satoshi defeated Laszlo with punch. In Interview From May 2020, Honeyses said that Satoshi had already invented GPU mining as a type of secret death star to protect bitcoin from 51% attacks.
“And he really shares his version with me,” Hansses said, when he showed his own GPU mining code to see what Satoshi thought. Satoshi then warned Hanyecz to privately developed the famous GPU miners too quickly.
“So even though it was not in bitcoin, he had the GPU mining code and he said that he was just preparing it when he had to defend the network with it.”
On Bitcoinitock in late 2009, Satoshi slowly Pushed “As long as we can do for the betterment of the network to postpone the GPU weapons race for a gentleman’s agreement, which is quite interesting to look back, seeing that they were already sitting on severe shelling.
Laszlo and Jeros’s legacy in the context of Bitcoin Pizza Day are largely irony. Bitcoin is absolutely money, and anyone who swaps bitcoin with laszlo or someone else for pizza was perfectly appropriate to do so.
To spend money, like Jeros said, and the word Hodl will be coined only three and a half years. after First bitcoin pizza day.
At the same time, bitcoins have become so quickly so quickly that these days, actually spending them is easily seen as luck.
Nobody accidentally wants to spend billions of dollars on pizza. And this is exactly the reason why Laszlo will be a bitcoin legend forever.
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