🍕 522 Paradox: A Feast No One Dares to Pay For

Another year, 522.
Everywhere in Gate Square, people are showing off their pizzas. Businesses are hosting events, offering discounts, airdrops, lively and bustling.
But I’ve noticed a particularly absurd phenomenon:
Everyone is buying pizza with USDT, with ETH, even with platform tokens.
Only no one is buying pizza with BTC.
That’s very ironic.
In the event commemorating Bitcoin Pizza Day, everyone tacitly avoids paying with Bitcoin.
Why?
Because those 10,000 BTC are like a mountain pressing on their hearts. “Spending each BTC at this moment is a second humiliation for that programmer.”
We shout HODL with our mouths, but honestly switch to stablecoins at checkout.
This is the most real “decentralization” in 2026: decentralized belief, centralized accounting (USDT).
🤡 The forgotten “Miner Fee”
In 2010, when Laszlo bought pizza, the transaction fee was almost zero.
And now?
I just tried, using BTC on-chain transfer to buy a $25 pizza, and the miner fee is $12.5.
That means, to buy a slice, I have to pay half a slice’s worth of fee to the miners.
Satoshi’s “peer-to-peer cash” has now become a “large-scale settlement system for high-net-worth individuals.”
How can you let brothers in Africa use it? Let him use a month’s salary to make one transfer?
BTC won in store value, lost in circulation; won in K-line charts, lost in scenarios.
🚬 My 522: A Late Apology
I used to think Laszlo was a fool, thought this guy was done for.
Now I understand, he’s the one closest to Satoshi’s original intention.
Back then, he could unhesitatingly spend his coins, showing he truly believed this was to improve life, not to torment nerves.
Now, holding BTC in our hands, we dare not get sick, dare not spend, dare not quit our jobs.
We’ve won on paper, but live as slaves to numbers.
This $1 billion pizza, each of us took a bite, but what we swallow is all bitterness.
💡 Closing Remarks
So this year’s 522, I don’t plan to buy anymore.
Watching everyone celebrate in the square, I just want to ask:
If BTC suddenly drops to zero today, what’s left in your hands besides that private key?
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