The $1 Billion Pizza: How Bitcoin Was Born

In 2010, a programmer paid 10,000 bitcoin for two pizzas. At bitcoin's peak, those coins were worth over $1.2 billion. This is the story of how bitcoin was born: a financial meltdown, a gang of paranoid cypherpunks, a nine-page paper sent on Halloween, a hidden newspaper headline… and a ghost named Satoshi Nakamoto who walked away from a hundred billion dollars. Who do YOU think Satoshi is? Drop your theory in the comments. CHAPTERS 0:00 The $1.2 Billion Pizza 0:41 The Problem With Money 1:25 The Nerds Who Saw It Coming 2:27 The Spookiest Paper Ever Written 3:36 Block Zero 4:23 Running Bitcoin 5:13 The Pizza 6:08 The Ghost Leaves the Building 7:14 The Case File: Who Is Satoshi? 9:24 We Are All Satoshi Theories about real people are presented as theories. Everyone named as a possible Satoshi has denied it, and a UK High Court ruled in 2024 that Craig Wright is not Satoshi. SOURCES Bitcoin Pizza Day: https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-bit... Pizza Day (Bitcoin Wiki): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_pizza_day Genesis block: https://decrypt.co/56934/the-bitcoin-genes... First transaction (Guinness): https://guinnessworldrecords.com/world-rec... First exchange rate: https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-ma... Value overflow bug: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2010-5139 Satoshi's last email: https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-nak... Satoshi Nakamoto (overview): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Naka... Hal Finney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(...) Dorian Nakamoto car chase: https://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2... Craig Wright ruling: https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-gb/legal/new... Peter Todd / HBO: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20... Adam Back / NYT (2026): https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/british-... "Finding Satoshi" (2026): https://decrypt.co/365075/finding-satoshi-... Budapest statue: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/hungar... MUSIC Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Sneaky Snitch", "Investigations", "Hackbeat", "Enter the Maze", "Echoes of Time v2", "Pixel Peeker Polka - faster", "Fluffing a Duck", "Unanswered Questions", "Night on the Docks - Sax", "Inspired" Narration: AI voice. Animation and sound effects: original. This video is for education and entertainment only — not financial advice. #bitcoin #satoshinakamoto #crypto