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136 sats \ 4 replies \ @freetx 23 Feb \ on: deleted by author BooksAndArticles
Well, its like the Laszlo pizza story... we must not be too critical of the past.
The human mind is a strange thing, and there exist something like a "mental optical illusion" when it comes to viewing the past. We cannot, in fact, view the past honestly. All of our present-time knowledge is imposed upon the past in way that makes it almost impossible for us to really see the past for what it was.
Consider a present day example. Imagine I sent you 10000 blue pixels....yes effectively a png of 10000 blue pixels....and someone else said "if you send me that pic I'll send you 2 large pizzas". That other person was not a wall street exec dressed in a suit, but rather a 18 year kid who liked to smoke weed.
You would probably feel like the "png for pizza" was a pretty good deal. Who would ever know that would become worth $500M....
But funny enough, even this contrived present-day example is clouded by the past. Thanks to bitcoin, we now mentally know about "digital scarcity" and know that purely digital things can become worth lots of money....
My point is that we must drop all those anxieties about "I should've held on to that..." etc because it was literally a different world with different rules.
Well, its like the Laszlo pizza story... we must not be too critical of the past.
It's not though. Laszlo was the first person to write GPU mining code after Satoshi iirc. So the 10k bitcoins he spent on two pizzas were probably nothing. There was an interview where he mentioned he doesn't regret a single thing about buying the pizzas. In fact, he set a price for all the other coins he mined and will mine. He knew exactly what he was doing.
When lightning came out, he did it again iirc.
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