Summary (Featured Snippet): Bitcoin Pizza Day is celebrated every May 22 to mark the first real-world Bitcoin purchase: in 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pizzas. At today’s prices that meal would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Pizza Day commemorates the moment Bitcoin proved it could function as money — and it remains a cultural anchor for every trader who has held, spent, or wagered crypto since.

The Transaction That Started It All

On May 22, 2010, Florida-based developer Laszlo Hanyecz posted on the BitcoinTalk forum offering 10,000 BTC to anyone who would order him two pizzas. A user known as “jercos” took the deal, ordered the…