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theSeattleUnfreeze
@SeattleUnfreeze

entrepreneur | dog dad | builder

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gm and happy Day, nostr!

I had some fun with the numbers, since everybody likes to talk about Laszlo's 10k BTC pizza in dollar terms.

** May 22, 2010 **
• 10,000 BTC got Laszlo $41 in pizza-denominated terms
• Closing price of gold at the time: $1,200 per ounce
• Using the pizza-USD-exchange rate: 292,683 BTC/ounce
• BTC/gold price: just under 0.1 mg gold per BTC

** Bitcoin Pizza Day 2026 **
Today, 1 BTC is worth just about about 17 ounces of gold [https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/BTCXAU]

The money spent on those 2 pizzas carries the same purchasing power of a whopping 10,632 **POUNDS** of gold.

But that doesn't mean we should just hodl. Laszlo transcends whale status because he did **the work**, and in doing so he became the first "block" in proving Bitcoin's real world use case. Not to mention his work spreading adoption by writing the first MacOS client for Core.

Laszlo 🫡
ManyKeys · 14w
I understand and share the fear of rising node costs, but #BIP110 doesn’t actually solve that class of problems. Pruned nodes already discard historical block data, so large witness fields or OP-RET...
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> Sending a message to spammers that they are not welcome is futile as the spammers do not care about our messages; they will just move to more destructive methods, and the cat and mouse game will continue.

I disagree. Bitcoin does not live in a vacuum. There are other projects they can move to. We kicked Vitalik off of Bitcoin when he realized it would be a "hostile environment" for his needs.

> So the proposal tightens some superficial limits but risks worsening the one part of the system that actually matters for long-term decentralisation: UTXO size, not raw block weight.

Maybe you're right. That's the BIP-110 proposal is a **temporary** soft fork. A year's worth of damage is a small price to pay for **doing SOMETHING** about this mess.
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Condor · 15w
Well the fact itself that I hear someone call other normies in a derogatory way is probably the reason itself why most people would never use Bitcoin. The majority of the population wants to feel part...
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Bitcoin's history constitutes its network effect, but its language and rules constitute its protocol. TCP/IP, for example, was invented in the 70s, and was built upon for decades to become the protocol stack for the modern internet.

Were more efficient protocols proposed since then? Sure. But none were powerful enough improvements to convince the majority of builders and investors away from TCP/IP. Instead, we built upon the "good enough" protocol in a backward-compatible way.

Nowadays I don't hear many people say that we need new versions of TCP/IP, or that the early adopters were too rude. It's because of the toxic conviction of those early adopters that we have a generally accepted standard for digital communication in the first place.
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