In 2010, in the dawn of Bitcoin, it was just a digital currency nobody really took seriously yet.
Enter Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer with a vision and a hunger, not just for pizza, but for something bigger.
This guy, he dropped 10,000 Bitcoin, to buy two pizzas from Papa John’s. Two pizzas.
New frontier
Back then, 10,000 BTC was worth about $41. A bargain, right? Today? Those same coins would be worth $1.1 billion. Billion, with a B. Can you imagine?
Two pizzas turning into a fortune that could buy you a small island, a fleet of luxury cars, and still have cash left over for a lifetime supply of pepperoni.
Laszlo posted his pizza offer on Bitcointalk.org, the go-to forum for early Bitcoin fans. It was the very first time Bitcoin was used to actually buy something real.
The lucky guy who accepted this crazy deal was Jeremy Sturdivant, a 19-year-old student from California.
Jeremy spent those coins on road trips across the U.S. with his girlfriend. No yacht, no mansion, just good old American adventure.
History
When asked about it, Jeremy told the New York Post he had no clue Bitcoin would blow up the way it did.
But hey, he’s proud to have played a part in Bitcoin’s rise from geeky experiment to global powerhouse.
And Laszlo didn’t just buy two pizzas. Nope, he made similar deals with others, spending a total of 100,000 BTC on pizza that year. Imagine that, a pizza party worth billions today.
Remember the pizza
But what’s the moral of this tale? Sometimes, the things that seem small and silly, like buying pizza with a newfangled digital coin, turn into legends.
It’s a reminder that every giant leap starts with a single, sometimes goofy, step. Next time you’re munching on a slice, think about Laszlo and Jeremy. They made history.
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