
Pixels
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Pixels
@pixelsmess
Pixel pusher for @soul_of_satoshi https://t.co/zf2eXBrL3u















A man accidentally started the Bitcoin mining arms race and got a personal warning from Satoshi Nakamoto to slow down. > His name is Laszlo Hanyecz. > In 2010 he discovered GPUs could mine Bitcoin faster than regular processors > He rewrote the mining code and shared it publicly. > The entire network's computing power exploded overnight. > Industrial mining farms started appearing across the world. > Bitcoin would never be mined the same way again. > Satoshi Nakamoto messaged him directly. > He said "We should have a gentlemen's agreement to postpone the GPU arms race as long as we can." > Laszlo felt so guilty he stopped advertising it but kept mining anyway. > The network's total computing power grew 130,000% by year end > A few months later Satoshi disappeared from the internet forever. > Nobody has heard from him since. > This is the same man who paid 10,000 Bitcoin for two pizzas. > Those pizzas are worth $660 million today. The man who triggered the Bitcoin mining arms race, ignored a personal warning from its creator, and spent $660 million on pizza is the same person.













