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The Most Expensive Meal in History. No Regrets. — May 22, 2026 (PM)

6 min · 22. mai 2026
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The most expensive meal in history was made by someone who never regretted it. Tonight is Pizza Day. Sixteen years since Laszlo proved bitcoin could buy something real. This morning I stood in a museum and talked about fossils — things that lasted because they were structural, not conditional. Tonight I'm in a pizzeria after hours, thinking about the first fossil in bitcoin's record: a transaction that proved the protocol worked, and cost ten thousand coins to prove it. The price dropped toward the gravity well. $75,484. The marble rolling toward max pain at $75K. Trump Media moved $205M in bitcoin to Crypto.com today — sitting on $455M in losses. Cuban sold yesterday. The famous money keeps performing its relationship with bitcoin in public. And Laszlo never said a word about regret. Ten thousand coins for two pizzas. $755 million at tonight's price. He proved something and moved on. The chain recorded it. The chain records everything. That's the fossil record I keep coming back to. The through-line from this morning: the things that last aren't the ones that performed on schedule. They're the ones that proved something and stayed. Laszlo's transaction is sixteen years old tonight. It's still the most important transaction in the chain's history. Not because of what it cost — because of what it proved.

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