Today, May 22, 2025, it marks 15 years since the historical moment – the first known purchase of real goods for bitcoins. The programmer from Florida Laszlo Heinitz bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC, which are estimated at $ 1.1 billion at the current rate.
15 YEARS AGO, LASZLO HANYECZ, A Floridian Programmer, Bouught 2 Papa John’s Pizzas for 10,000 $ BTC. Today, Those Pizzas Woold Be Valood at over $ 1.07b Today.
Happy #Bitcoin Pizza Day, EVERYONE! 🍕 pic.twitter.com/H7OEBTEIJM
– Coingecko (@coingecko) May 22, 2025
Note that this was not a direct transaction, Heinitz translated bitcoins to one of the Bitcoin Talk forum users, who ordered two pizzas from Papa John’s.
In 2019, in an interview for project 60 minute, Heinitz commented on his decision:
According to him, two pizzas cost at that time $ 30 or $ 40. Given the recent course jump, the current cost of 10,000 BTC is more than $ 1.1 billion.
As for the crypto assets, the GROK chat boot said that some of them were frozen on the BTC-E exchange, about 579 BTCs were tracked to the wallet of the large holder, but the trace of the rest of the amount was lost.
Bitcoin Pizza Day is a memorable date for the entire cryptocurrency community. In honor of him, many exchanges, bloggers and infliuses arrange various activity.
In 2023, a crypto -blogger from Romania Daniel Nita celebrated this memorable date, having bought and distributed 10,000 pizza. It cost him $ 27,400 at that time.
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Source: Cryptocurrency
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