Vladimir 🎩
@xbtvladimir
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22 may was once again Bitcoin Pizza Day, and as usual, social media is full of posts like “If he hadn’t bought pizza, he’d be a billionaire by now.” But this topic deserves a deeper look:
If Laszlo Hanyecz hadn’t spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas that day, Bitcoin might never have reached its current status. That transaction marked the first real use of Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. While there's a claim that Satoshi once acquired a sort of NFT, this pizza purchase is widely accepted as the first commercial Bitcoin transaction.
Moreover, Laszlo wasn’t just any user. He was one of the first people to realize that GPU mining was more efficient than CPU mining. While everyone else was using CPUs, he publicly demonstrated the potential of GPUs. That’s how he managed to accumulate so much BTC in 2010.
In fact, he’s also the one who enabled mining on Mac computers. Before him, mining wasn’t even possible on Macs. So he played a key role in shaping the technical evolution of Bitcoin mining. 1 reply
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