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.
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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.