Every year on May 22, the global cryptocurrency community reenacts a 'memory scene'. Some lament the Bitcoin they sold back then, which is now worth millions, while others mock the first programmer who used Bitcoin to buy pizza for 'losing blood'. However, this $600 million pizza transaction actually opened Pandora's box in the crypto world.
When programmer Laszlo exchanged 10,000 bitcoins for two slices of Italian pizza, he not only proved the circulation value of digital currency but also inadvertently created the 'Genesis Moment' in the history of the digital economy. Today, Bitcoin's daily trading volume exceeds 30 billion dollars, and what was once a geek toy has evolved into the 'digital gold' that institutions are scrambling for.
This darkly humorous story reveals the hidden rules of disruptive innovation: Ethereum was once seen as a 'Ponzi scheme', Dogecoin was born from a joke, and NFT avatars were viewed as performance art in 2020. All seeds that change the world are initially wrapped in absurd shells.
When Web3 entrepreneurs describe 'buying Mars land with cryptocurrency' and AI believers fantasize about 'mining digital gold with computing power', please refrain from your reflexive laughter. Just as no one believed in 2008 that a string of code could reconstruct the financial system, we may be on the verge of nurturing the next trillion-dollar track.
History repeatedly verifies: the greatest wealth secrets are often hidden in the blind spots of mainstream awareness. After all, in 2010, when the Bitcoin pizza transaction occurred, the idea of using virtual currency to purchase tangible goods was itself the craziest prophecy.
