Today, a Boomer told me she invested in Mara.

"The bitcoin mining company formerly known as Marathon?"

"That's the one. I was too afraid to invest in bitcoin so I bought some of this bitcoin mining stock."

Said it was too easy to lose. This one guy bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin.

😮

I said, " Today's the aniversary of that pizza purchase, May 22nd, 2010. The real bitcoin nerds celebrate it as a holiday. Bitcoin is the 5th largest asset in the world now, so it's kind of a big deal."

If I had more time, I would have added this.

His name is Laszlo (I don't know how to pronounce) Hanyecz.

He was the first person to use ASIC chips to mine bitcoin. Before that, people mined on laptops and desktop computers so he invented the type of mining Mara, all other mining companies, and dorks like me still use to this day.

People tend to focus on what a bad deal this trade was, but Satoshi told him it was too early to centralize all those bitcoins since they were still bootstrapping the network. See, Lazlo was mining more bitcoin than anyone at first, out-competing the less efficient laptops and desktops. He's a pretty smart dude. I recently listened to an episode of Rabbit Hole Recap where Matt Odell said Lazlo created the macOS software too. Like I said, he's a smart dude. I'm sure he still has plenty of bitcoin.

But you want to know the story I want to hear? What happened to those 10,000 bitcoin? Who sold the twp pizzas for bitcoin now worth 1.1 Billion dollars?

He or she probably lost it. If not, I bet that person said they had a tragic boating accident.