🧐 Decentralized payments emerged in the 80s within the online gaming community. This marks the beginning of "mining" with graphics cards when the computer is not being used for gaming.

⚡Did you know that the first real transaction with Bitcoin in the world was for pizza? On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer from Florida, paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas from Papa John’s, delivered through a mediator from the BitcoinTalk forum.

At that time, those 10,000 bitcoins were worth about 41 dollars. Today, if we calculate with the current value of Bitcoin (as of March 2025, assuming it's around 90,000 dollars per bitcoin), those pizzas would cost approximately 900 million dollars! This date is now celebrated as "Bitcoin Pizza Day" in the crypto community, but few people realize that this is the first documented case of using cryptocurrency to purchase physical goods.

It is also interesting that Laszlo did not stop there – he continued to spend bitcoins on pizzas and other things in the following days, spending a total of around 100,000 bitcoins. This shows how different the perception of the value of cryptocurrencies was in the beginning – back then, they were more of an experiment than a serious asset.