On May 22nd every year, the cryptocurrency community falls into collective celebration, because this day is recorded in history - Bitcoin Pizza Day!
Let's turn back to 2010, when a programmer exchanged 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. That's right, you read that correctly, a whole ten thousand! At the current price, these two pizzas are enough to buy a private island, customize a rocket ship, and still have some change left to travel the world.
This guy was just trying to solve his dinner problem while also testing whether 'digital tokens' could actually circulate. Little did he know that not only did he get his pizza, but he also left his name in the annals of blockchain history. This transaction allowed cryptocurrency to break through the dimensional wall of the coding world for the first time, accomplishing a 'daring leap' from virtual symbols to real currency.
What we celebrate is never those two cold starchy mixtures, but that spirit of solitary courage - that pioneering spirit of 'even if there are thousands, I will go.' Of course, no one would now exchange ten thousand bitcoins for pizzas (unless they have so much money they want to burn it for fun), but every era needs its first person to eat the crab.