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.
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.
