Bitcoin Pizza Day – A Slice of Crypto History
Every year on May 22, the cryptocurrency community celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day, a fun yet historic milestone marking the first known real-world transaction using Bitcoin.
On this day in 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz made history by purchasing two Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 BTC. At the time, this amount of Bitcoin was worth around $41 USD. Laszlo posted on a Bitcoin forum offering the coins in exchange for pizza, and a fellow user took him up on the offer, ordering the pizzas and receiving the Bitcoin in return.
What seemed like a casual meal transaction became monumental as Bitcoin’s value skyrocketed over the years. At today’s prices, those same 10,000 BTC would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the most expensive pizza purchase ever recorded.
Bitcoin Pizza Day represents more than just an expensive dinner—it symbolizes the beginning of Bitcoin’s journey from a niche digital experiment to a global financial phenomenon. It demonstrated that cryptocurrency could be used for everyday purchases, setting the stage for wider adoption.
