If you had 10,000 Bitcoins, what would you spend them on? Maybe pizza? One man did just that back in 2010. May 22, 2020 marks the 10 year anniversary of the first Bitcoin transaction where a man paid ten thousand Bitcoins for two Papa John’s pizzas which is roughly equivalent to 90 million dollars today!
The exchange was organised on bitcointalk by Laszlo Hanyecz, one of the early contributors to the Bitcoin source code. The pizzas were roughly worth 25$ at the time of the purchase but soon almost a year later 1 bitcoin was worth 1$.
“ I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day. I like having leftover pizza to nibble on later. You can make the pizza yourself and bring it to my house or order it for me from a delivery place, but what I’m aiming for is getting food delivered in exchange for bitcoins where I don’t have to order or prepare it myself, kind of like ordering a ‘breakfast platter’ at a hotel or something, they just bring you something to eat and you’re happy!
I like things like onions, peppers, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, pepperoni, etc.. just standard stuff no weird fish topping or anything like that. I also like regular cheese pizzas which may be cheaper to prepare or otherwise acquire. If you’re interested please let me know and we can work out a deal.
Thanks, Laszlo”
Ever since then, May 22nd has become Bitcoin Pizza Day and we have Laszlo's hunger pangs to thank for that. It was a historic day when for the first time ever a digital currency was traded for real world goods.
This reply on the forum aged really well:
Who knows, maybe one day 10,000 BTC will be enough to buy the entire Papa John's franchise.