Laszlo Hanyecz
Also appears as laszlo, Laszlo
Laszlo Hanyecz was an early GPU miner and a visible BitcoinTalk regular. He is world-famous for paying 10,000 BTC for two pizzas on 22 May 2010, the landmark now called Pizza Day. Satoshi's archive presence around Laszlo is mostly adjacent forum traffic rather than a long private correspondence, so this page does not invent a close working relationship. In the years that followed, Laszlo stayed a friendly historical figure in Bitcoin culture.
He has reappeared in interviews and anniversary posts as living proof that someone spent bitcoin when spending it still looked absurd, and that price history alone cannot explain why people ran the software in the first place. GPU mining itself was an early industrial step: it showed that hobbyist CPU mining would not remain the equilibrium, and that hardware races would shape who could secure the chain.
Together, the pizza purchase and the GPU mining work explain why his name stuck in popular Bitcoin memory more than many other early forum regulars. The pizza story is an economics milestone of Satoshi's active years even when Satoshi did not narrate it himself. It marks the moment Bitcoin left pure theory and entered ordinary commerce, however small and silly the purchase looks in hindsight.
Did Satoshi Nakamoto talk to Laszlo Hanyecz?
Yes. This archive has 3 forum posts that quote or address them from Satoshi involving Laszlo Hanyecz, dated from 18 May 2010 to 26 November 2010.
No published emails · 3 replies · 12 posts immediately after them in a thread · mentioned in 13 · 18 May 2010 to 26 November 2010
Sources
In this archive (28)
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Ummmm... where did my bitcoins go?
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: We accept Bitcoins
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Hostnames instead of IP Addresses
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: new binary release?
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: Transactions and Scripts: DUP HASH160 ... EQUALVERIFY CHECKSIG
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: Dying bitcoins
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: 0.3 almost ready
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: 0.3 almost ready
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: 0.3 almost ready
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: On IRC bootstrapping
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: 0.3 almost ready
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Bitcoin clients getting k-lined from the IRC bootstrapping channel
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: 1.3 almost ready
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Beta?
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Feature Request: Limiting Connections
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: 0.3 almost ready -- please test the Mac version!
- Mentioned · Private email (Martti Malmi)
0.3.0 released
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Bitcoin 0.3 released!
- Mentioned · Private email (Martti Malmi)
\[bitcoin-list\] Bitcoin 0.3 released!
- Mentioned · bitcoin-list (SourceForge)
[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3 released!
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Building Bitcoin 0.3
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: bitcoin auto-renice-ing
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Static Linux x86_64 bins for those having libcrypto troubles
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Bitcoin 0.3.1 released
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: JSON-RPC password
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: tcatm's 4-way SSE2 for Linux 32/64-bit is in 0.3.10
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Version 0.3.13, please upgrade
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: Version 0.3.17
