It feels like Bitcoin has finally crossed the Rubicon into the mainstream both a triumph and a tragedy.

Walking around the conference this year, you could easily mistake it for a fintech summit or SaaS expo in Vegas. Same blazers, same VC pitch decks, same awkward networking energy. The suitcoiners outnumber the cypherpunks by 100:1.

On one hand, this is what we fought for: global legitimacy, serious capital, institutional attention.

On the other, something’s been lost in translation. The raw edge, the revolutionary energy, the sense that we were building something against the system not polishing it up to sell it back to the system.

Bitcoin doesn’t feel quite as dangerous anymore.

It feels… professional. Predictable. “Respectable,” even.

Maybe that’s just the mask Bitcoin wears while it continues hollowing out the old world from within.

Either way, the vibe has shifted.

What's your budget? Looking to spend $500 or 1k?

One of the things that annoys me most is deception.

I live around Atlantic City, and so I do go to restaurants and shows there. They purposely design it so you have to walk through the casino to get there.

In Vegas now. And of course you have to walk through the casino to get to your room, or to leave, each time.

It’s so banal. So obvious.

Also, there are kits of lube and condoms at the mini bar. Just casually there in case you need them. That’s nice and all but I never saw that at a mini bar before across countless other cities and hotels. Seems like a Vegas thing?

Anyway, good evening.

You can do a lot with that. Do you have a miner already?

How many watts is the heater?

DIY or GFY #plebminer

Happy #Bitcoin Pizza Day!

On May 18, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz posted a thread on the Bitcoin Talk forum saying that he would pay 10,000 bitcoins to anyone that would order him 2 large pizzas or cook and deliver him 2 large pizzas.

Four days later, Jeremy Sturdivant decided to take him up on that offer. On May 22, 2010, Jeremy ordered Laszlo 2 large pizzas from Papa Johns and Laszlo sent Jeremy 10,000 bitcoins in return.

This wasn't the only time that Laszlo spent thousands of bitcoins buying pizza. Laszlo estimates that he spent 100,000 bitcoins on pizza in 2010.

How did Laszlo get all of those bitcoins? Well, Laszlo is also the man that invented GPU mining.

Laszlo is a legend, but we can't forget about Jeremy. He's equally important in this transaction.

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