If anyone should have become an overnight millionaire it should have been me. I've been involved in virtual economies for many years now (mmorpg gold exchanges) and if anyone should have had the foresight to become an early adopter of bitcoin it should have been me but instead I was wasting my time fucking around with virtual gold. I wake up every morning feeling depressed.
Laszlo should have been more depressed than you, although it appears the opposite.
holy shit - Laszlo would have been a billionaire if he just hodled
look how many coins was recieved at that wallet alone : Total Received 81,432.09 BTC
https://blockchain.info/address/1XPTgDRhN8RFnzniWCddobD9iKZatrvH4
Actually he was neither. He was just a very early adopter who became involved in the Bitcoin community in mid-2010 when prices were below 1 cent per BTC. He contributed a bit to the Bitcoin code and wrote the first GPU miner for Bitcoin.
But the reason why he's famous is because he also made the first real-world purchase using BTC when he spent the equivalent of $41 on two pizzas which someone else on the forums ordered for him. Back then, $41 was equal to 10,000 BTC so that was what he spent on the pizzas but as the price of BTC kept going up and up and the value of those 10,000 BTC kept increasing, his story became quite famous.
His page on the Bitcoin wiki:
http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Laszlo_Hanyecz