Traveling back to 2010—I prevented that programmer from spending 10k BTC on pizza

2060 Senior Center
I’m lying in bed, with my grandson reading me the history of blockchain: “On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz used 10k Bitcoin to buy two pizzas. At that time, it was worth $41, and now it’s worth…” I suddenly sit up: “I want to go back and stop him!”

Time travel successful
I return to May 21, 2010, at a programmer meetup in San Francisco. Laszlo is posting: “Who wants to trade my 10k BTC for pizza?” I rush forward: “No! Ten years later, those coins are worth $600 million!” He laughs: “Bro, Bitcoin is just a toy. I’m hungry right now.”

I fail
No matter how I try to persuade him, he doesn’t believe me. Finally, I say, “Alright, I’ll buy you a pizza, and you give me the coins.” He hesitates: “10k BTC for two pizzas? You’re crazier than me.” In the end, he doesn’t give me the coins and instead trades them for pizza. The next day, photos of those two pizzas spread across the internet.

Back to 2060
I feel so regretful. My grandson comforts me: “Grandpa, if you had succeeded in stopping him, Bitcoin wouldn’t have the Pizza Day story, and maybe it wouldn’t have risen so high. History needs that foolish moment to become a legend.”

April Challenge
Now, whenever I see someone regretting “selling too early” at Gate Square, I think of Laszlo. He’s never regretted it because those two pizzas made him a legend in the crypto world. Sometimes, the greatest value isn’t how much you earn, but that you become part of the story.

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