15th Anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day: 10,000 BTC Pizza Now Worth Over $1.1 Billion

On May 22, 2025, Bitcoin hit a new all-time high of $111,800 — exactly 15 years after “Bitcoin Pizza Day,” when programmer Laszlo Hanyecz made the first-ever commercial BTC transaction by buying two pizzas for 10,000 BTC in 2010.

Back then, the BTC was worth about $40. Today, it's valued at over $1.1 billion — a symbol of Bitcoin's extraordinary rise from cypherpunk code to a global asset.

Despite being labeled as “missing out on a fortune,” Hanyecz said the transaction made Bitcoin real for him, marking a turning point in BTC’s journey to real-world use.