On this day 12 years ago, Laszlo Haynecz and Jeremy Sturdivant carried out the first real-world transaction made with Bitcoin.
El Bitcoin Pizza Day It has a historical background. Therefore, it is one of the most important celebrations of the year for bitcoiners and the crypto community in general.
As noted by Bitcoin Magazine editor and Forbes contributor Pete Rizzo, today marks the first real-world transaction made with Bitcoin, the world's first successful cryptocurrency and the first form of decentralized digital money.
El Bitcoin Pizza Day It is a story of how two pizzas changed the course of history.
Days before May 22, 2010, programmer and Bitcoin enthusiast Laszlo Haynecz made a curious request via Bitcointalk forum: “I'll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas… maybe 2 large, so I have some left for the next day”, wrote.
In more detail, Haynecz wrote that it did not matter if the person who accepted his offer to exchange bitcoins for pizzas made the pizzas at home or ordered them from a place with home deliveries, what was truly important in that request was that they would deliver the pizzas. in exchange for your bitcoins.
“You can make the pizza yourself and bring it to my house or order it from a place with home delivery, but what I want is for the food to be brought to me in exchange for bitcoins”.
Although Bitcoin barely had value at the time, the vision of Haynecz and also that of Jeremy Sturdivant, who accepted the programmer's offer to exchange pizzas for bitcoins, began a historic revolution. There are many who attribute the stratospheric revaluation that the cryptocurrency has had in the last 12 years to this small transaction that showed the value of bitcoin in the real world.
To put it into context, in 2010, 10.000 bitcoins amounted to about $41, which was what pizzas cost at the time. As of the current date, This amount of BTC exceeds $299 million, even though the price of the cryptocurrency shows a slight correction in the last year. Therefore, the pizzas that Haynecz bought in 2010 have become famous and are known as the most expensive pizzas in the world.
The Bitcoin transaction between Haynecz and Sturdivant, the first carried out in the real world, serves to remember and celebrate a milestone. Further proof that small things can cause one of the greatest revolutions ever seen.
Every year, the crypto community celebrates this day by buying pizzas. From Bit2Me, we invite you to celebrate el Bitcoin Pizza Day in a big way with friends and family.
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day to all Bitcoiners and Bit2mers!
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