How does buying 2 Large Pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoins sound? Even though it sounds ridiculous now, this is exactly what happened in 2010. Let's take a closer look at the history of this day, which is celebrated every year as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Bitcoin Pizza Day is considered a major milestone in the cryptocurrency world. This incident, in which Bitcoin was used in real life for a good or service for the first time, took place on May 22, 2010. This incident is a prime example of Bitcoin's real-world usability. In this way, people saw that Bitcoin had tangible value in real life and could be used for real purchases.
Bitcoin Pizza Day helped drive adoption and awareness of Bitcoin. This event, recorded as the first commercial transaction, encouraged people to become interested in Bitcoin and contributed a lot to the spread of the cryptocurrency industry.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be used in many different areas. Examples of these include their acceptance as a payment method, their use in trade and e-commerce, their use for investment purposes, their use in international money transfers and their serving as a means of storing value.
While Laszlo Hanyecz, the main hero of Bitcoin Pizza Day and who carried out this transaction, said in an interview that he did not regret this transaction, Jeremy Sturdivant, who delivered pizza and was 19 years old at the time, announced that he sold 10,000 Bitcoins and traveled.
10,000 Bitcoins are worth approximately $270 million as of today š. However, in the 2010s, no one could have predicted that Bitcoin would gain this much value. When I put myself in Laszlo Hanyecz's shoes, I think I will never see pizza the same way again, or even eat pizza againš.
