The Birth of the "Most Expensive Takeout in History" - $BTC Pizza Day 🚀
In the late night of May 18, 2010, in Florida, USA, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz stared at his computer screen, his fingers flying over the keyboard. His desk was piled high with circuit boards and pizza boxes—this was the “loot” from several weeks of late-night testing of Bitcoin code. At that time, Bitcoin was just a “digital toy” on geek forums, with no exchanges, no price, and no one even believed it could be used to buy anything.
“Maybe... I should try to buy something with it?” Laszlo had a bright idea and typed a line on the Bitcoin Talk forum:
"I’ll pay 10,000 Bitcoins for two large pizzas! You can order them for me or make them yourself, but they must be real pizzas!"
When he hit the send button, he had no idea that this line would be forever etched in the history of cryptocurrency.
At first, it was just a joke among a group of geeks. “Look! Bitcoin can really buy pizza!” Pizza emojis flooded the forum. But as Bitcoin's price skyrocketed from $0.003 to $65,000 over the course of ten years, the “value” of those two pizzas reached an astonishing $650 million in 2021—enough to buy the entire Papa John's franchise.
The media frantically asked Laszlo, “Do you regret it?” The earnest programmer scratched his head: “At the time, I just wanted to prove Bitcoin was useful... Besides, I’ve mined back those Bitcoins long ago.” Jeremy, on the other hand, casually responded in 2018: “I sold most of my coins for a new computer, and the rest? Who knows.
