🍕 10,000 BTC for Pizza: The Most 'Luxurious' Meal in Crypto History
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz from Florida posted on the Bitcoin forum: "I want to exchange 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, preferably large ones, so I can save some for the next day." At that time, Bitcoin had only been around for a year, with network computing power less than one trillionth of today's, and 1 BTC was worth about 0.003 cents.
▍ Transaction Details
Pizza Source: UK user "jercos" ordered two pizzas from Papa John's for Laszlo using a credit card (total price about $25), and Laszlo completed the transfer using his wallet address.
Technical Background: At that time, Bitcoin had no exchanges, and transactions relied on forum 'barter'; Laszlo was the first player to mine with a GPU, producing over a thousand BTC in a single day.