This annual event symbolizes Bitcoin's humble beginnings and digital currencies' transformative potential
Bitcoin was first used to buy pizza? 🍕
- crypto community celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day each year in recognition of the first real-life transaction using Bitcoin 🤑
Bitcoin Pizza Day isn’t merely a milestone event in the history of Bitcoin; the story itself offers a lesson in patience. Laszlo Hanyecz was an early Bitcoin miner in 2010. At that time, miners earned 50 BTC per block. Mining competition was minimal, because Bitcoin was still in its infancy and it was relatively easy for miners to amass a large stash of tokens.
Laszlo Hanyecz offering to pay 10,000 BTC in exchange for the delivery of two pizzas ☹
It was the first Bitcoin purchase transaction 22 May 2010
