This is the craziest and most widely circulated transaction in the history of the cryptocurrency world.
In 2010, a programmer spent 10,000 bitcoins—worth only $40 at the time—to buy two pizzas.
Today, that money is worth over $1.07 billion.
A pizza meal has become a lifelong cost.
His name is Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer living in Florida.
At that time, bitcoin was just an experimental toy on geek forums; no one really believed it could become "money."
But Laszlo believed.
He wanted to do one thing: buy a real-world product with bitcoin.
So he posted on the forum, offering 10,000 bitcoins for someone to help him order two pizzas.
A day later, a netizen responded.
The deal was struck, and two pizzas were delivered to his doorstep, marking the world's first bitcoin transaction for a real product.
This transaction seems “incredibly foolish” by today's standards.
Who would spend the equivalent of $1 billion to buy two pizzas?
Yet this transaction proved the value of bitcoin—it can circulate as currency!
And it opened the door to the future of bitcoin.
That day became a holiday remembered by countless cryptocurrency believers:
📅 "Bitcoin Pizza Day"—May 22.
Laszlo also became a legend.
He did not regret it, nor did he try to “recover his losses.” He said:
"Without those two pizzas, bitcoin might never have proven its value."
This was not a failed investment, but the prologue to a new world.
🧠 Some spent 10,000 bitcoins to buy pizza
💰 Others changed their fate with 10,000 bitcoins
🌍 Every legend in the cryptocurrency world begins with a “crazy” belief.