Meet Laszlo Hanyecz, the first person to conduct a Bitcoin transaction for a physical item - 10,000 BTC for 2 pizzas in 2010.
You may think you've never heard of Laszlo Hanyecz, a Florida-based programmer working for the online retail company GoRuck, but you'd probably be wrong - Hanyecz was behind the groundbreaking purchase of two Papa John's pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoins (BTC) on May 22, 2010, making this week an eight-year celebration of Pizza Day.
But the transaction didn't involve just one person: Jeremy Sturdivant, also known as Jasco, was part of the original Bitcoin pizza deal as the recipient of the 10,000 BTC, which he used to get two pizzas.
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Since Bitcoin's fateful first recorded transaction for a physical good, the currency's use case has taken off, with customers now able to use Bitcoin for real estate transactions, online shopping, plane reservations, and, of course, pizza.