No one can know the future well, I will explain you with two examples. Did anyone know before that Do Known's Terra Luna platform went bankrupt in 2022 and this scamming thousands of investors lost billions of dollars? If people had known the news of all these disasters earlier, would anyone have suffered losses?
Again after the SAM BANKMAN-FRIED FTX scam millions of people lost billions of dollars, would anyone have invested if they had known FTX was going to go bankrupt?  No one can predict any cryptocurrency in advance.
Malmi, Laszlo Hanycez, Theymos , If these gentlemen had known in advance that the bitcoins they sold would one day become the world's most talked about currency and go from 0.00099 to $69000 in the market, they might not have sold the bitcoins, or if they had, they would have sold part of their wallets and kept others portion for future reserved.

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If the people of Turkey had known about the earthquake in advance, the devastating earthquake would not have killed more than 45,900 Turkish people and 4,500 Syrian people. No one can know in advance the news of natural calamities and unexpected epidemics, just like how the state of the cryptocurrency market will be known in advance.

Everyone who sold their bitcoins at the lowest price back then was a part of the great sacrifice for the financial revolution and the fruit of their deeds is what we are enjoying right now. As for me, I never had to deal with any banks because I can do some transactions without them but of course, with the help of the current exchanges. Nowadays, only a few people know the history of these guys who sacrificed and perseverance to promote bitcoins until it reaches anyone of us their deeds will never be forgotten and they will always be part of crypto history forever.

But if they didn't sell the Bitcoin so cheaply, perhaps nobody would have ever bought them, and then perhaps the Bitcoin economy would have never taken off and started growing. I would not underestimate the intent of the people quoted here that sold Bitcoin for a cheap price. The only way for them to test whether what they believe to be true about Bitcoin is actually true, is to give Bitcoin away almost for free, but not for zero. Is someone willing to give me something in exchange for them even if it is only fun and experimental reasons?

And think about the next step: if the guy who sold the pizza talks to someone else and says hey, I got these 10,000 coins called Bitcoin for pizza that I sold, how about you give me that for 5,000 BTC. That spurs interest and people get excited about it. The least they will do is google it and find this forum and then dig into it. It was essentially a community and network building measure and the pizza story was perfect.

Even if the pizza story was deliberately created in order to pump the price afterwards and then get the message out because the pizza guy freaks out and can't believe what he just received for selling his pizza, you can be sure that the pizza guy alone is going to spread the message where ever the damn he can.

Whether the actions of the guys quoted here were smart moves or accidental exchanges, it helped to get Bitcoin where it is today.

I do know someone personally who actually did sell accidentally. He sold 30,000 Bitcoin for $1 a piece and bought a BMW. This is no fake story! And he did indeed regret it later on.

What I deduce from your story is that none of them lost the investment sense in bitcoin, at a point they would have held it in high prime and later realized it is high time to trade it off, even with the person that traded it for pizza.

By the time they exchange bitcoin for pizza are they stupid? I don't think so because no one knows that the price of bitcoin can be like it is today, let's talk about alcoin for a moment like Binance when it first came to the market, many did not believe it and sold it at a cheap price. selling at low prices as well as bitcoin at that time.

Is this thread title a rhetorical question? Of course that those people didn't knew that the Bitcoin price is going to hit tens of thousands of dollars several years later. At least they had the balls to sell some BTC and the buyers had the balls to spend fiat money for BTC. What if BTC failed as a project and the BTC price went down to zero? The people, who bought BTC would have been ridiculed as complete fools.
Back in 2009-2010, the main goal of Bitcoin wasn't the price getting higher and making more profits by buying low and selling high.
The goal of Bitcoin was to become an alternative to all fiat currencies. Well, Bitcoin kinda failed at achieving that goal, but it became a successful financial asset.

I posted a longer text above yours, would like if you give it a read and comment on it as there I explain why I think that they are not kicking themselves right now. Those Bitcoin trades or exchanges or sales might have been much more deliberate than most of us could ever imagine. The pioneers had to get the economy going and there is no better advertisement than a pizza man spreading the unbelievable truth that he received 10,000 USD from a guy for Pizza when Bitcoin hit $1 for the first time. It was obvious that the story is going to spread like wild fire. You could phrase it whatever way you want, but it catches peoples' eyes when they read "how this pizza guy turned his pizza into 10,000 USD, no lie!"

I think it could have well been an outstanding marketing move, too. One war or another, even if today someone hears the team "Bitcoin Pizza Day", it still is interesting enough for some to do some google search on it. They still find out about Bitcoin and the story gets stuck in peoples' heads.

Anybody that haven't heard anything about Bitcoin they don't know the Important of Bitcoin,or someone that learning how to invest in Bitcoin he will not know the Important of BTC on till he/her go deeper before he/her will understand Bitcoin,or know the importance of Bitcoin. More interested in Bitcoin buy and hold, bring it out when rising,the achieve of Bitcoin was to become an alternative to all fiat currencies. Well, Bitcoin extent failed at achieving that goal, but it became a successful financial capital. way it did, we need to spend it, use it, and basically earn it as well in order to make it look like its actually a currency that should be used and many people missed that part.

It's still in the experimental stage in real terms and you can't claim that they don't think that bitcoin is as important and as valuable as it is now, and again they use bitcoin as if the utility of bitcoin as a replacement currency for FIAT is different like nowadays which mostly use bitcoin as an investment alternative as a way to profit from the increase in the price of bitcoin, so I think you are wrong in understanding bitcoin in its initial function which is the goal of satoshi.
If only they knew bitcoin would be worth as much as it is now they probably wouldn't be selling/giving away their bitcoins like that.