🍕 What is Bitcoin Pizza Day?
Date: May 22, 2010
Event: A programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz bought two Papa John's pizzas for 10,000 BTC.
BTC value at that time: About $41 USD for 10,000 BTC.
Value of 10,000 BTC now: Hundreds of millions of dollars (depending on market price, could be over $600 million if 1 BTC = $60,000).
🎉 Why is it important?
This is the first known real-world transaction using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
It marks the beginning of Bitcoin's use as a currency, not just a digital project/experiment.
📆 How does the community celebrate it?
Every May 22, the crypto community around the world celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day by:
Buying pizza with crypto
Discussions and community events
Nostalgia for the value of BTC then vs now.
