š„ A story that has been alive for 15 years
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz posted on a forum: āIāll give 10,000 bitcoins for pizza.ā
š A brave soul was found and ordered two pizzas from Papa Johnās for 25 dollars. The deal went through.
š° At todayās exchange rate, that would be hundreds of millions of dollars for a couple of pepperoni pizzas. Ouch? Yes.
š But back then, $BTC literally wasnāt worth anything in practiceāit was just a geeksā experiment. Laszlo didnāt lose out: he provided the first real proof that crypto could be exchanged for goods in the real world.
šÆ Since then, May 22 has been celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day. The irony is that without such ācrazyā deals, Bitcoin probably wouldnāt have taken off at allāsomeone had to be the first to believe it wasnāt just numbers on a computer screen.
š¤ And have you had something like thatāsold or spent crypto too early, and then regretted it?
#Bitcoin #BTC #crypto #PizzaDay
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz posted on a forum: āIāll give 10,000 bitcoins for pizza.ā
š A brave soul was found and ordered two pizzas from Papa Johnās for 25 dollars. The deal went through.
š° At todayās exchange rate, that would be hundreds of millions of dollars for a couple of pepperoni pizzas. Ouch? Yes.
š But back then, $BTC literally wasnāt worth anything in practiceāit was just a geeksā experiment. Laszlo didnāt lose out: he provided the first real proof that crypto could be exchanged for goods in the real world.
šÆ Since then, May 22 has been celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day. The irony is that without such ācrazyā deals, Bitcoin probably wouldnāt have taken off at allāsomeone had to be the first to believe it wasnāt just numbers on a computer screen.
š¤ And have you had something like thatāsold or spent crypto too early, and then regretted it?
#Bitcoin #BTC #crypto #PizzaDay
