The first real-world bitcoin transaction happened on this day when Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. This event is one of the most famous in bitcoin history.
Context for newbies:
On May 18th 2010 Laszlo Hanyecz made known on a forum at bitcointalk.org that he was willing to buy 2 pizzas for a price of 10,000 Bitcoins. At the time this was worth $41. Four days later on May 22nd the transaction took place. Forum member Jeremy Sturdivant from California took him up on the deal and had two Papa John's pizzas deliverd to Laszlo in Florida. This date has become known as Bitcoin Pizza Day.1
There are hundres, if not thousands, of events around the world today to commemorate this day... look around, askk your preferred search engine what's going on around you.
Enjoy a slice of pizza, today is cheaper ($42 = today ₿0,00 037 920) than it was 15 years ago (₿10.000 = today $1,115,411,643!)...
🍕 Buona Pizzata!
Footnotes
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Bitcoin Pizza Index https://bitcoinpizzaindex.net/ ↩
