#bitcoinpizzaday On May 22, 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. At today’s prices, that’s over $1 billion—making it the most expensive pizza in history!
Why it matters:
1️⃣ #BitcoinPizzaDay marks the first real-world transaction using Bitcoin.
2️⃣ It proved BTC could function as money—even if it was for pizza.
3️⃣ It’s a reminder of how far crypto adoption has come since 2010.
Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrated every year on May 22, marks the first time Bitcoin was used to buy a physical good.
On this day in 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, a Florida-based programmer, paid 10,000 BTC for two large Papa John’s pizzas worth about $41 at the time.
He didn’t order them directly; instead, he posted on the Bitcoin Talk forum offering the coins, and another user accepted the deal and ordered the pizzas for him. That transaction is now legendary in crypto circles because those 10,000 BTC would be worth over $1.1 billion today.