In May 2010, 26-year-old programmer Laszlo stared at the mining machine screen, with 100,000 bitcoins still a mysterious code on geek forums. He typed a post: "10k BTC for two pizzas with Italian sausage, delivered to Jacksonville!" At that moment, he just wanted to get rid of the frozen lasagna in the fridge.
1. The first spark in the world of code 19-year-old Jeremy replied that he would help order the pizza, on the condition that he learned how to transfer funds. When the delivery person rang the doorbell, Laszlo was debugging blockchain code, the aroma of pizza mixed with the heat from the graphics card, weaving a wonderful net in the air. The blockchain record at height 57043 showed that 10,000 BTC flowed from an address starting with "1L" to Jeremy's address starting with "13". The transaction, worth $41 at the time, reached a market value of 1.1 billion dollars when Bitcoin surpassed $110,000 in 2024 — the most expensive pizza exchange in history.
2. From geek lunch to global symbol This transaction brought virtual currency into contact with the warmth of reality. Every year on May 22, "Bitcoin Pizza Day" is commemorated worldwide in various ways: exchanges cover their candlestick charts with pizza icons, blockchain cafes support Bitcoin for pizza exchange, and pizzas printed with Satoshi Nakamoto’s portrait are delivered in Istanbul. In 2018, Laszlo used the Lightning Network to pay 0.00649 BTC to order again, holding a sign saying "8 years, from 10k to 0.01k" — technological advancements have drastically reduced transaction costs, yet the original intention of "digital exchanges for reality" has become even more precious.
3. Value choices beyond wealth When Bitcoin surged, people calculated the "missing 1.1 billion dollars" for Laszlo, but he chuckled: "I exchanged Bitcoin for three days of warm meals, the numbers on the screen are just red commas." Jeremy converted the $400 he received into Disney tickets, and his girlfriend's smile in front of the castle meant more to him than the numbers in his wallet. Laszlo continued to use Bitcoin for daily expenses: haircuts, shopping, even buying a second-hand Honda, practicing the belief that "currency should grow in circulation."
4. Eternal footnote on the blockchain The transaction hash is as clear on the blockchain as it was yesterday, the number of 10,000 BTC becoming a mark of the digital age. It witnessed Bitcoin’s evolution from a geek toy to "digital gold," and recorded the first embrace of technology and life: when Laszlo bit into the pizza, the cheese strings formed a cord connecting the virtual and the real; the wallet address written by Jeremy became the first fingerprint of an ordinary person touching the blockchain. Now, every Pizza Day brings new stories: donating food with cryptocurrency, exchanging for pottery, as blockchain integrates into everyday life. Those two pizzas have long transcended food itself, becoming a reminder — beyond the wealth game, the warmth of technology hides in every real exchange.
When the mining machine stops running, youth photos yellow, but the transaction records on the blockchain remain forever fresh. It is the first line of poetry written by code for reality, the first breath of decentralized currency, and an eternal yearning for free trade — more important than market value is the ability of technology to touch life; more precious than sudden wealth is the flicker of humanity in every ordinary exchange.
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