Saying hello, and have a few questions - page 5.

bg002h

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I outlived my lifetime membership:)

Quote from: laszlo on February 14, 2014, 12:28:36 PM

At the time, Gavin had a bitcoin 'faucet' that gave out bitcoins for free, and a few people were trading them for less than a cent each, but nothing serious. You can probably find all the old posts on this forum still. I was learning OpenCL programming and mining bitcoins with a video card so the pizza was a good deal for me. I couldn't have known that my pizza trade would end up being such a big deal, or that so many others would become interested in bitcoin and thus drive the value up. The people I traded with didn't know it was going to explode either, they just took a risk - spending their 'real' money to buy some guy pizza in exchange for some internet Monopoly money.

Laszlo

Without things like this, bitcoins would still be worthless...trade = spreading coins to more users; the broader the user base, the more valuable bitcoins become.

Thank you for pioneering Laszlo! And for protecting our nascent network so that it had a chance to grow up!

EFS

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Crypto Swap Exchange

Welcome back Bitcoin Hall of Famer! I hope we can see you more around here. Opening a pizzeria is a good idea you should consider. It could be a meeting place for Bitcoiners.

Chris_Sabian

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Quote from: laszlo on February 14, 2014, 10:17:19 AM

I spent it all on pizza long ago: https://blockchain.info/address/1XPTgDRhN8RFnzniWCddobD9iKZatrvH4

3-4 years ago there were less than 100 people frequenting this forum, and I was pretty happy to trade 10,000 coins for pizza. I mean people can say I'm stupid, but it was a great deal at the time. I don't think anyone could have known it would take off like this.

Laszlo

Hi Laszlo

I first learned of bitcoin in March 2013 and it has changed my life. The pizza deal has become legendary and it was a turning point in bitcoin history. Thanks for doing it. I would like to order you some pizza as a 'thank you' for helping make the bitcoin idea a reality.

No bitcoins required

Chris

boumalo

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Apparently you don't receive that many donations on your adress 157fRrqAKrDyGHr1Bx3yDxeMv8Rh45aUet : 3 in 2013 and 3 in 2014, you should receive more

Thanks for coming back and sharing your thoughts, this is an amazing story

From this 2010 post https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--564 : "I have only 600 bitcoins, virtually all generated last week. I missed the bus"

bitjoint

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Nice to see you're back laszlo! You're a true pioneer making that first or second bitcoin deal (I think I read somewhere that sirius did actually the first one). Anyways, it was a necessary step that sparked all this movement... Hope to see you here more frequently!

Cheers

rohnearner

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Quote from: laszlo on February 14, 2014, 10:17:19 AM

I spent it all on pizza long ago: https://blockchain.info/address/1XPTgDRhN8RFnzniWCddobD9iKZatrvH4

3-4 years ago there were less than 100 people frequenting this forum, and I was pretty happy to trade 10,000 coins for pizza. I mean people can say I'm stupid, but it was a great deal at the time. I don't think anyone could have known it would take off like this.

Laszlo

First thing i'll say is you acquire a " Celebrity Status " in this forum.
No one is saying you stupid, Even if i was on your place @ that point of time , i wouldn't have cared that much about bitcoins, because i njoy pizza too. if bitcoin goes up again and touches the mark many expecting it to touch i hope you won't get pissed off on yourself, but in the history of bitcoins your name will be there forever. Just wanna ask is there is anyone yet who interviewed you.. ?

quarkfx

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Today people are laughing about the trade and how you could be a millionaire if you would have just held the BTC.

The point is: without the people that spended the money, BTC wouldn´t have established as payment system and the price would probably be less than in "the old times"

I really think you should do the AMA on reddit, laszlo. Not to earn money (although that would happen) - I think there are more people who would like to interview you.

Oh...and yes, please open a Pizza place Wink

Ente

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Quote from: Acidyo on February 14, 2014, 09:19:46 PM

Hehe, didn't know that u made the first gpu miner, that is pretty amazing!

If any of you could go back in time and had the mining power to mine as much btc as you wanted to, when would you stop mining, knowing the price will end up at 1250 in 4 years? When would you have enough btc to not give a fuck anymore?

kind of an ethical question.

Now the juicy part: He developed a GPU miner as (one of) the first. Having a hundredfold advantage over everyone else, and over the difficulty. He didn't mine the heck out of it, he made it open source, available for everybody!

Quote from: tinus42 on February 14, 2014, 09:39:51 PM

Quote from: laszlo on February 14, 2014, 01:21:41 PM

I heard from one person who bought a house with their pizza bitcoins, indirectly, by trading it for cash first. Apparently it was a lot of hassle with the bank due to AML and just their general distaste for currencies they don't control. I wish I could say I did the same, but the pizza didn't appreciate the same way as the bitcoins

Why don't you do a Reddit AMA? I'm sure you would get a tonne of Bitcoin donations. And Dogecoins as well. Wink

+1000!

Ente

winter

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Quote from: cfrm on February 14, 2014, 09:42:58 PM

Is there any Bitcoin'er that haven't heard the pizza story? As others mentioned what he did was really important to Bitcoin in terms of PR. If it's true that lazslo really is left with nothing, then I vote for making a casual bitcoin collection to give back a little for what he's done.

If marketing ever meant a huge deal for the adoption of Bitcoin (no doubt about that), surely the pizza story is competing for the 1st prize.

Just my 2000 bitcoins.

send me 2000 of your bitcoins plz

Taras

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Please do not PM me loan requests!

Quote from: laszlo on February 14, 2014, 10:17:19 AM

I spent it all on pizza long ago: https://blockchain.info/address/1XPTgDRhN8RFnzniWCddobD9iKZatrvH4

3-4 years ago there were less than 100 people frequenting this forum, and I was pretty happy to trade 10,000 coins for pizza. I mean people can say I'm stupid, but it was a great deal at the time. I don't think anyone could have known it would take off like this.

Laszlo

Woah. Did laszlo just fucking return from the ether. Shocked

You're a legend. An inspiration. I thought you'd be gone forever!

cfrm

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Is there any Bitcoin'er that haven't heard the pizza story? As others mentioned what he did was really important to Bitcoin in terms of PR. If it's true that lazslo really is left with nothing, then I vote for making a casual bitcoin collection to give back a little for what he's done.

If marketing ever meant a huge deal for the adoption of Bitcoin (no doubt about that), surely the pizza story is competing for the 1st prize.

Just my 2000 bitcoins.

winter

legendary

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one day at a time is the key to life
he wanted pizza that day and at that time the price was what he offered in BTC
simple things make people happy

jhansen858

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We have a celebrity in our midst. I'm kicking my self over selling half my coins. Really sucks if you didn't hold on to some at least.

tinus42

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Quote from: laszlo on February 14, 2014, 01:21:41 PM

I heard from one person who bought a house with their pizza bitcoins, indirectly, by trading it for cash first. Apparently it was a lot of hassle with the bank due to AML and just their general distaste for currencies they don't control. I wish I could say I did the same, but the pizza didn't appreciate the same way as the bitcoins

Why don't you do a Reddit AMA? I'm sure you would get a tonne of Bitcoin donations. And Dogecoins as well. Wink

Acidyo

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Will Bitcoin Rise Again to $60,000?

Hehe, didn't know that u made the first gpu miner, that is pretty amazing!

If any of you could go back in time and had the mining power to mine as much btc as you wanted to, when would you stop mining, knowing the price will end up at 1250 in 4 years? When would you have enough btc to not give a fuck anymore?

kind of an ethical question.

LightRider

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I advocate the Zeitgeist Movement & Venus Project.

I only have one criticism...did you have to order them from Papa John's? Wasn't there a better pizza place in your location? I don't want to impugn your taste or anything, but Papa John's makes terrible pizza in my experience.

asuryan180

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This guy had 81k btc = 97 millions $ when btc was 1200 ......

ShawnLeary

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Quote from: laszlo on February 14, 2014, 05:52:18 PM

Thanks for the kind words guys.

The pizza thing was a lot more popular than I thought so I made good on as many trades as I could.

If you can recall, about how many of the trades did you end up doing? I remember reading you posted that you were about done doing the trade and no longer honoring it later in the thread.

I live right off Gate Pkwy / Baymeadows East, so if you are still in J'ville, would love to buy you a beer sometime and thank you for your contribution.

nicopalavecino

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Lazlo I'm here to say hi and thanks!
Without you and your pizza maybe bitcoin would be in the underground forever.

Also I wanna invite you and everyone to join the biggest Bitcoin community on Google+
https://plus.google.com/communities/115591368588047305300

Thank's again!
Nico

Warren

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Welcome back Laszlo. Good to see you on the forum again.

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