People still calling Laszlo’s 10,000 BTC pizza a “mistake” clearly don’t understand how value emerges.
That transaction was never about food it was a stress test for the protocol. He didn’t lose BTC, he created proof of function.
Without someone brave enough to trade digital coins for real-world goods, Bitcoin would’ve stayed just a nerd fantasy. It’s ironic how people sitting in the comfort of 2025 forget that without pioneers like Laszlo, they wouldn’t even know what a satoshi is. Hindsight critics miss the point.
Bitcoin needed that pizza more than Laszlo needed the $BTC