#Gate广场披萨节 Old K stared at his phone screen, his finger hovering between “Buy” and “Sell” for ten minutes.

This is his third Pizza Festival. Every year on this day, he remembers that legendary programmer—the unlucky guy who used 10,000 Bitcoins to buy two pizzas in 2010. The first time Old K heard this story, Bitcoin had just broken through $20,000, and he slapped his thigh laughing: “This guy lost billions.”

This year, he didn’t laugh.

Because his own story wasn’t much better. He rushed in at the peak of the 2021 bull market, cut out at the bottom of the 2022 bear market, got back on board in 2023, and in 2024 he was shaken out again—half out. He didn’t miss any of the four-piece set of chasing the rise and cutting the losses.

“Old K, the pizza’s here.” His wife pushed the door open, holding two paper boxes in her hands.

“What kind of filling?”

“Super Supreme, and a cup of cola—just enough, 10,000 sats.”

Old K froze for a moment, then burst out laughing. His wife doesn’t understand Bitcoin, but she knows that every year today she has to get him a pizza, and she even learned to joke using “sats” as a unit.

He opened the pizza box, and hot steam rushed toward him. He tore off a corner, and the cheese stretched into long strands.

This year, he didn’t go on mocking that programmer anymore. Because he finally understood one thing: the person who spent 10,000 BTC on a pizza wasn’t stupid. He was only doing what Bitcoin was supposed to do—exchanging value—when everyone else didn’t know what Bitcoin was.

And what about Old K himself? He traded coins for three years, watched the K-line chart 800 times, felt anxious, excited, and sleepless—but he had never truly used Bitcoin to buy anything.

He took a bite of the pizza, opened Gate.io, and bought a little Bitcoin. Not much—enough to buy a hundred pizzas. Then he decided: he would never sell this batch of coins. He would only spend.

Next year, on Pizza Festival, he would personally order a pizza with Bitcoin.

So good.
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