🍕 The $1.1 Billion Bite: The Legendary Pizza
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz made history by buying two Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoin - worth just $41 at the time. Today, that same amount is valued at over $1.1 billion. The purchase marked the world’s first real-world Bitcoin transaction. Jeremy Sturdivant, the student who accepted the Bitcoin, used it for a U.S. road trip, unaware of its future value. Hanyecz later spent 100,000 BTC on more pizzas in 2010. Now celebrated as “Bitcoin Pizza Day,” this milestone reminds us how a simple meal helped launch a global financial revolution.
