May 22 is the day that Bitcoin (Bitcoin) enthusiasts around the world celebrate every year (Pizza Day). This holiday originated on May 22, 2010, when an American computer programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz exchanged 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, marking the first real-world transaction using Bitcoin. However, what most people don’t realize is that Laszlo Hanyecz spent as much as 79,000 bitcoins on subsequent pizza purchases that day, which are now worth over 8.7 billion dollars. He also mentioned in an interview in 2019 that his expenses for pizza purchases using Bitcoin in 2010 reached nearly 100,000 BTC. Additionally, to confirm that he had used all his bitcoins to buy pizzas, Laszlo Hanyecz publicly shared his Bitcoin address on the Bitcointalk forum, which showed that from the date it was created on April 10, 2010, until August 4, 2010 (the day he ended his public transactions exchanging Bitcoin for pizza), he sent over 79,000 bitcoins. The bitcoins in that wallet were emptied in June 2011, with a total outflow slightly exceeding 81,432 bitcoins. Below is the performance of BTC on past Bitcoin Pizza Days:
2010 — ~$0.004
2011 — $6.83
2012 — $5.10
2013 — $123.89
2014 — ~$524.58
2015 — $235.32
2016 — $439.32
2017 — $2,173.40
2018 — $8,041.78
2019 — $7,680.07
2020 — $9,182.58
2021 — $37,536.63
2022 — $30,323.72
2023 — $26,930.64
2024 — $69,122.34
2025 — $111,866.
