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The real Bitcoin Pizza Day story: Laszlo spent nearly 80,000 Bitcoin on pizza in 2010, not just 10,000. Plus how his GPU mining discovery changed Bitcoin forever and why Satoshi wasn't happy about it.
Charlie and Colin reveal the shocking truth about Bitcoin Pizza Day that mainstream media got wrong. Laszlo didn't just spend 10,000 Bitcoin on pizza - he spent nearly 80,000 Bitcoin throughout 2010! We dive deep into how his GPU mining discovery revolutionized Bitcoin, why Satoshi sent him a concerned email, and how this "penance" may have actually saved Bitcoin's decentralization in its early days.
**Notes:**
• Laszlo spent ~80,000 Bitcoin total on pizza in 2010
• GPU mining was 10x more powerful than CPU mining
• Bitcoin hash rate increased 130,000% by end of 2010
• Laszlo had 1-1.5% of entire Bitcoin supply 2009-2010
• His wallet peaked at 43,854 Bitcoin
• Total wallet flows were 81,432 Bitcoin
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:28 Lies, damn lies.. and pizza
02:21 What actually happened
05:46 It's actually WAY MORE than you think
11:15 Arch Network
11:47 Laslo "saved" Bitcoin
19:12 Pizza or penance?
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After the American Revolution, the United States economy was in trouble. One solution proposed to solve the crisis was the establishment of a national bank.
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Fast-forward several decades, and the United States found itself debating the exact same issue, with very similar results.
Learn more about the first and second Banks of the United States, why they were created, and how they ended on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture(Princeton UP, 2024) is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs. Examining the huge importance to the Greeks of religion, mythology, the Homeric epics, tragic and comic drama, philosophy, and the city-state, the book offers shifting perspectives on an extraordinary and astonishingly creative people. Century after century, in one medium after another, the Greeks addressed big questions, many of which are still very much with us, from whether gods exist and what happens after we die to what political system is best and how we can know what is real. Yet for all their virtues, Greek men set themselves apart from women and foreigners and profited from the unpaid labor of enslaved workers, and the book also looks at the mixed legacy of the ancient Greeks today. The result is a rich, wide-ranging, and compelling history of a fascinating and profoundly influential culture in all its complexity—and the myriad ways, good and bad, it continues to shape us today.
Today we’re taking stock of the overall state of artificial intelligence in 2025 – from the latest potential to the biggest risks, including which jobs may be first to go. I’m speaking with a computer scientist and AI researcher about how AI is already being used in your daily life and what to watch for next as this technology evolves fast.
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