Saying hello, and have a few questions

[Taras]

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

[winter]

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

[Ente]

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!

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. 

+1000!

Ente

[quarkfx]

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

[rohnearner]

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.. ?
 

[bitjoint]

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

[boumalo]

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://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=564.0 : "I have only 600 bitcoins, virtually all generated last week.  I missed the bus"

[Chris_Sabian]

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

[EFS]

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.

[bg002h]

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!

[Nullu]

Your story, laszlo, was one of the first I heard about Bitcoin. I still tell people about it. It just blows their minds.

[roslinpl]

It seems like laszlo is same laszlo that made very good custom os for htc

[DubFX]

So you even relased first GPU miner...dude you should get hellalot tips!

[PGPpfKkx]

I think that laszlo should get free pizza once per week for lifetime either from a pizzeria as a promotion or from wealthy bitcoiners (me not included, i sold it all in 2011

[Ente]

I think that laszlo should get free pizza once per week for lifetime either from a pizzeria as a promotion or from wealthy bitcoiners (me not included, i sold it all in 2011

If we find a reliable and trustworthy mechanism for this - I'm in!

Ente

[Sonny]

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

OMG!! The legendary pizza buyer is back!!! 

[smoothie]

welcome back Laszlo.

[achillez]

welcome back Lazslo - good to see you on the forum. Maybe we should start a fund to give you back some of your pizza BTC

[drrussellshane]

Welcome back Lazslo!


a hat tip to you sir.

[nobbynobbynoob]

welcome back Lazslo - good to see you on the forum. Maybe we should start a fund to give you back some of your pizza BTC

I'd gladly drop mBTC100 into that, provided I'm certain many others are equally willing to contribute!