here is the story behind the bitcoin pizza
On a bright afternoon in Florida, on May 22, 2010, a man named Laszlo Hanyecz was sitting in front of his computer, staring at the screen with excitement. He was not trading or coding anything important for the blockchain. No. He was just hungry. And what he wanted at that moment was: pizza.
But this was not just any hunger. Laszlo had a brilliant (or crazy, depending on your perspective) idea. He wanted to buy two pizzas using Bitcoin, a digital currency that was only known by a handful of geeks on online forums at that time. The price? 10,000 BTC.
Yes, you read that right. Ten thousand Bitcoins.
On a forum called BitcoinTalk, Laszlo wrote:
"I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas. Maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day."
Some people thought he was joking. But no. Laszlo was serious. He didn’t even ask for pizza from a fancy restaurant—pizza from Papa John’s was fine. Eventually, a young man from England saw his post and said, "This sounds good." He ordered pizza for Laszlo, and two pizzas were sent to Laszlo's home in Jacksonville, Florida.
Laszlo is happy. He eats his pizza calmly while perhaps thinking, "Well, this is the first real Bitcoin transaction. History, bro."
But who would have thought...
Several years later, the value of Bitcoin skyrocketed like a rocket to the moon. 10,000 BTC that used to be enough for two pizzas can now buy a private island, a private jet, or even create your own pizza empire. At its peak, the value of those two pizzas even touched over 600 million dollars!
But strangely, Laszlo never seemed to regret it. He still considered it an important moment. Without that spontaneous hungry afternoon, who knows if Bitcoin would be as popular as it is now.
And that’s where Bitcoin Pizza Day was born—every May 22, the crypto community celebrates this funny and iconic event by... yes, eating pizza!
The moral of the story?
Sometimes small and casual things can be the start of a great revolution. And sometimes... you just need pizza to make history.
So if you are eating pizza today while scrolling through the crypto market, remember Laszlo. Maybe you are not wasting coins—maybe you are writing history. But hopefully... it’s not that expensive, okay?