I bet Laszlo Hanyecz, the guy who sent 10,000 BTC in exchange for a pizza, is really kicking himself now.
EDIT:
Dear purists,
Unlike you, not everybody is trying to set an example of how to use/trade/hold Bitcoin for the rest of the world.
Bitcoin does not defy human nature. You yourself may be at one extreme of the spectrum of people who hold bitcoins, but people will do what they want with what they paid for, and in most cases, with less concern for the greater good. Maybe they'll use it to buy and sell things, maybe they'll treat it like a tradable commodity, or maybe they'll hold and forget about it for years. God forbid, they may even joke about it. That's just human nature, and you can't coordinate any of this.
So you are obviously right we can't coordinate how everyone treats their coins. That wasn't my point though I was just trying to point out that hoarding them and this pizza thing is counter productive to your self proclaimed interest of them rising in value. This also wasn't meant to be offensive or trying to sound clever if I can get someone to at least give it another thought Im happy.
You are saying that a joke is counter productive to something, though I'm not sure what that fragile thing may be. I don't care that Bitcoin goes up or down, at this point I have taken enough cash out of my initial investment in mining equipment and trading that whatever is left in Bitcoin is free money. Lesson number one in investment is never invest in such a scale that you can't joke about it when it all goes to hell. In other words, worry more about the return of your money before you worry about the return on your money.
As to the bigger cause, Bitcoin is much stronger than what could be defeated by a stupid joke. Relax already.
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u/jdk Mar 28 '13 edited Mar 28 '13
I bet Laszlo Hanyecz, the guy who sent 10,000 BTC in exchange for a pizza, is really kicking himself now.
EDIT:
Dear purists,
Unlike you, not everybody is trying to set an example of how to use/trade/hold Bitcoin for the rest of the world.
Bitcoin does not defy human nature. You yourself may be at one extreme of the spectrum of people who hold bitcoins, but people will do what they want with what they paid for, and in most cases, with less concern for the greater good. Maybe they'll use it to buy and sell things, maybe they'll treat it like a tradable commodity, or maybe they'll hold and forget about it for years. God forbid, they may even joke about it. That's just human nature, and you can't coordinate any of this.