Pizza Day is celebrated every year by Binance to remember the first real transaction made with Bitcoin, when 10,000 BTC were used to buy two pizzas on May 22, 2010. Today, this event symbolizes the beginning of Bitcoin's adoption in the real world.
Who is Laszlo Hanyecz?
Laszlo was one of the early enthusiasts and developers of Bitcoin. On May 22, 2010, he made history by using 10,000 BTC to buy two large pizzas from the Papa John's chain. He posted the following request on the bitcointalk forum:
"I will pay 10,000 bitcoins for some pizzas… like maybe 2 large ones, so I have leftovers for the next day. I like to save pizza to eat later. You can make the pizza yourself and bring it to my house or order it from somewhere, but what I want is food delivered in exchange for bitcoins."
🍕 Who received the 10,000 BTC?
It was another forum member named Jeremy Sturdivant (nick: jercos), who saw the post and bought the pizzas for Laszlo with regular money. In return, he received the 10,000 BTC.
At the time, these bitcoins were worth about $497,743,554.0841. Today, that value would have surpassed $497,743,554,086.00 million (or more, depending on the current BTC exchange rate).
