As if we didn’t already have enough holidays, today, May 22, is Bitcoin Pizza Day.
On this day in 2010, Florida programmer Laszlo Hanyecz made the first-ever purchase using bitcoin. He ordered two Papa John’s pizzas (worth about $25) and paid for them with 10,000 bitcoins.
They’ve long since become the most valuable pizzas in history. In today’s bitcoinage, Hanyecz paid approximately $83,000,000 for his dinner.
I hope he at least got extra pepperoni.
It’s also my birthday.
Happy birthday, Technomad! It’s also the birthday of one of my best friends. Must have been a lot of messing around, long about August or September. 🙂
Happy Birthday Technomad.
Wonder what pizza guy paid for the rope he did himself in with?
To be realistic about it though, he probably would have cashed it out long before it ever got to the current crazy price.
I remember the first time I heard about bitcoin – it was up to $1.90. I thought at the time that it was too bad I hadn’t heard about it when it was cheaper.