Celebrating The $1.1 Billion Slice Of Crypto History
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May 22, 2025, marked another Bitcoin Pizza Day. It began with a simple trade back in 2010. A Florida programmer offered 10,000 bitcoins for two large pizzas. Those pizzas cost about $41 then. Now, those same coins are worth over $1.1 billion. That shift highlights how much has changed in just 15 years.
First Real Bitcoin Purchase
According to BitcoinTalk forum records, on May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz posted a request to swap 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. A 19-year-old user known as “jercos” agreed. He bought two pies from Papa John’s for roughly $25 and had them sent to Hanyecz’s door….
