On May 22, 2010, exactly 10 thousand Bitcoin (BTC) was paid for two pizzas, looking at the current Bitcoin price, this value is equivalent to $ 268,500,000.
Bitcoin Pizza Day, which is celebrated in the crypto industry on May 22 every year, has arrived. It has been exactly 13 years since May 22, 2010, when the first BTC exchange in history took place. But when this value meets today’s BTC amount, it continues to be spoken as a truly striking event. The fact that a person named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10 thousand BTC for 2 pizzas on May 22, 2010 and the price of Bitcoin has increased exponentially over time continues to keep the story fresh.
The Beginning of the Story
The origin story of Bitcoin Pizza Day is when Hanyecz posted “Pizza for Bitcoins?” on Bitcointalk, the popular Bitcoin form of the time, on May 18, 2010. It started with a topic in the title. Laszlo said the following in the title he opened;
“I want to pay 10k BTC for a few pizzas. There may be 2 large ones. If you want, you can make the pizzas yourself and bring them to my house, or you can show me as the buyer and order.” I don’t want to deal with or make it myself. Just like when you ask for a breakfast plate at the hotel, they make it and bring it, and you can eat it and be happy… Things I like to have in pizza; onions, peppers, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc. If you are interested, please contact me and let’s talk for a deal.”
This is how the story started. The most striking point of the event was another statement of Hanyecz. “I think it would be interesting to tell people that I bought pizza by paying with Bitcoin.” His answer was a sign that he wanted to make such a trade just so he could say “I bought a pizza with Bitcoin”.
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