A guy once paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas – now it’s Bitcoin Pizza Day
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Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!
This week crypto enthusiasts around the world celebrate the May 22 anniversary of one of the earliest bitcoin purchases: two Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins.
Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer, purchased the two pizzas in 2010 from another person in Jacksonville, Florida, according to The New York Times. In an interview with the newspaper in 2013, Hanyecz didn’t sound too broken up about the deal.
“It wasn’t like bitcoins had any value back then, so the idea of trading them for a pizza was incredibly cool,” Hanyecz said.
Still, those coins would be worth $US82 million at bitcoin’s Tuesday price of $US8,200 a coin.
There’s a Twitter account that provides a daily update on how much the pizzas would have cost based on the latest price of bitcoin.
For its part, CoinDesk released a ‘Bitcoin Pizza Day‘ Price Tracker on Tuesday.
eToro sent Business Insider a pizza to celebrate the day. Here’s a picture: