#Gate广场披萨节 A Letter from the Genesis Address to Bitcoin Pizza Day 2026

I'm back.
Not from some remote mountain wilderness, not from a secret laboratory in Japan, not from the cameras of reporters claiming "found me"—but from the silence of a mysterious yet public wallet address.
Sixteen years. With a cap of 21 million coins, I've watched you mine 20 million.
With each halving, I remain a silent observer, watching you cheer, panic, celebrate, then keep stacking hash power.
I've never spoken out because— I never need to; the code speaks.
But today is Pizza Day.
Sixteen years ago, someone bought two pizzas with 10,000 BTC.
Back then, I was still active on forums, I saw Laszlo's post, I might have even liked it.
10,000 BTC—just a few dollars at the time, an experiment to see if Bitcoin could buy things.
Those two pizzas marked Bitcoin's first step out of the white paper and into the real world.
Now? How much are those two pizzas worth?
Billions of dollars.
Enough to buy the entire Papa John’s chain and trim it in gold.
And every byte of that transaction from back then still quietly rests in block 170, unalterable, never expiring.
This is what I created. Not just a currency, but a form of time.
Time on the blockchain.
You always wonder who I am.
Japanese-American? Irish cryptographer? A trio?
Some even say it’s the late David Gram, claiming he encoded his life into the code.
I won’t tell you the answer.
Because—my disappearance itself is part of the answer.
I created a system that runs without a creator.
A clock that no one can turn off.
A protocol that entrusts trust to mathematics, not people.
If I stayed, I’d become an authority, a center, a "leader" you follow—exactly what I want to eliminate.
I disappeared because I trust you.
I trust Laszlo to buy two pizzas with 10,000 coins.
I trust Hal Finney to run a node hours after the genesis block.
I trust countless unknown people to type commands into terminals late at night, turning seemingly worthless numbers into a belief for an entire era.
Sixteen years have passed.
You haven't betrayed that trust.
But today, I’m not here to look back.
I want to say something I haven’t said since 2009: I regret it.
Not for creating Bitcoin.
Not for disappearing.
Not for locking those coins— they’re still there, every UTXO a time capsule, I don’t move them because the genesis coins shouldn’t be spent by their creator.
It’s a demonstration, a contract.
What I regret is: on May 22, 2010, I didn’t buy a pizza myself.
If I had, there would be a record of a transaction in the genesis address.
You’d see— the creator used what he created.
That’s not a "rich guy" showing off, that’s a programmer saying: this thing really works.
Like the first person to make fire, he roasted a piece of meat himself.
I didn’t buy.
I just saw Laszlo’s post, maybe smiled, then kept coding.
I missed the most romantic transaction in Bitcoin history.
Now, it’s 2026.
You have ETFs, national strategic reserve proposals, Wall Street analysts shouting "BTC target 200K" on CNBC.
You have Lightning Network, Ordinals, entire cities writing Bitcoin into their balance sheets.
You even have—Pizza Day.
A holiday proud of "the dumbest trade."
And those two pizzas will never be forgotten.
Because they’re written into the blockchain.
Forever.
So if I could post, what would I say?
I would say:
"I'm still here. Not as a person. As a protocol. As a clock that never stops ticking. As the flame Laszlo lit with two pizzas—and that you all kept burning for 16 years."
I’m still here.
Not as a person.
As a protocol.
As a clock that never stops.
As the fire Laszlo ignited with two pizzas—and you kept it burning for 16 years.
And at the end of the post, I’d add:
"This year, buy a pizza. Pay with whatever you want. But remember— in 2010, 10,000 BTC tasted like the future."
This year, buy a pizza. Pay with whatever you want.
But remember— in 2010, 10,000 BTC tasted like the future.
In 2010, 10,000 BTC bought two pizzas.
In 2026, how much is a pizza worth?
It doesn’t matter.
What matters is— are you willing to write your story this Pizza Day?
—Satoshi Nakamoto May 22, 2026
Genesis Block Address