One of the most important days in the Bitcoin ecosystem is May 22, which is called “Bitcoin Pizza Day”. To this day, he remembers the first recorded transaction using Bitcoin (BTC). Now, the Bitcoin community continues to remember this day as it was a crucial milestone for Bitcoin to become what it is today.
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Laszlo Hanyecz on Bitcoin Talk on May 18, 2010, “I will pay 10,000 Bitcoin for a few pizzas. Maybe I’ll buy 2 big ones, and it will stay for tomorrow,” he wrote. The Pizza Index showed that Laszlo paid $41 for two pizzas 12 years ago, on May 22, 2010. Today, the value of these two pizzas is close to $300 million, with BTC trading close to $30,000. Some places offer discounted pizza to BTC users to commemorate the transaction. As
Kriptokoin.com, we have reported in previous years, as the years passed, more and more information about this pizza event started to emerge. For example, it is thought that this is not actually the first BTC transaction – on January 24, 2010, about four months before the pizza incident, a user named Sabunir on Bitcoin Talk said that he sold an image for 500 BTC.
Lazslo: I don’t regret it
Laszlo states that he does not regret paying 10,000 Bitcoins and is happy to contribute to the ecosystem. Lazslo sent 10,000 Bitcoins to pizzeria Jeremy Sturdivant. Sturdivant, in an interview in 2015, said that he sold 10,000 Bitcoins, which was equivalent to $ 40 when he had it, when it was $ 400. Sturdivant said that he sees BTC as a currency, not as an investment tool. For this reason, he stated that he received and spent BTC as payment for service.
According to data on the blockchain, 5 percent of Hanyecz’s 10,000 BTC came to a very wealthy wallet over time, while some of the funds were apparently liquidated on a failed crypto exchange. Having consumed some of Hanyecz’s BTC, the rich wallet is among the 15 richest wallets in Bitcoin, with funds accumulating over 53,000 BTC. The total amount spent or sent from the wallet is 0 BTC.
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