Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrated every May 22nd, marks the anniversary of the first real-world Bitcoin transaction in 2010, when programmer Laszlo Hanyecz famously spent 10,000 BTC - now worth billions - on two pizzas, highlighting BTC's first step into everyday commerce.
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On May 22, 2010, a Florida man named Laszlo Hanyecz made history by conducting the first known real-world transaction using Bitcoin. He exchanged 10,000 Bitcoins for two large pizzas from Papa John's. At the time, the worth of those Bitcoins was around $41.
Today, the worth of those same Bitcoins is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Despite this, Hanyecz has no regrets about his exchange, stating that Bitcoins had no value back then, so the idea of trading them for a pizza was incredibly cool.