The pizza bought with 10,000 bitcoins that year was worth more than $1.1 billion 15 years later, and the BTC coin price broke through $110,000 today, witnessing history again. (Synopsis: Bitcoin Pizza Day is fragrant enough!) 5/22 Come to Tempo House to eat pizza, smoke BTC, and experience the latest plan of Taiwan Bitcoin Hub) (Background supplement: Bitcoin Pizza Day origin story: engineers spend 10,000 BTC to buy pizza, how to set off a global crypto payment revolution? Celebrated every year on Bitcoin Pizza Day) can you imagine? Two pizzas bought with less than NT$1,300 at the time can turn into nearly NT$30 billion 15 years later! Today, May 22, 2025 is the annual Bitcoin Pizza Day, and the price of BTC has soared above $110,000, and this article will take you back to this memorable day. The most expensive pizza in history, a gorgeous transformation of 10,000 bitcoins From the beginning, in 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz in Florida, who was hungry, posted an article on the Bitcoin Talk Forum saying: I want to pay 10,000 bitcoins for 2 large pizzas so I can save some for the next day. You can make your own pizza and bring it to my house or order a few to send to my house, but my goal is to exchange Bitcoin for food that I don’t need to order myself, a bit like ordering a “breakfast platter” service in a hotel or elsewhere, something that brings you food and pleasure! He also made a choice of pizza flavors in the article, and told anyone interested to contact him quickly and exchange two American pizza chains, Papa John’s $25 pizza, with Jeremy Sturdivant (screen name Jercos), who was a self-mining at the time. - source:Blockchain.com - At that time, 10,000 bitcoins were worth almost $40, which equaled only $0.004 per coin. As a result, today, in 2025, the value of these 10,000 bitcoins has reached $1.1 billion. More than an anniversary, it’s an important milestone for Bitcoin This pizza transaction, which may seem like a big deal at the time, is significant in the history of cryptocurrency. Because it made Bitcoin go from a virtual concept on the network to the real world for the first time, proving that it is feasible to buy things with Bitcoin! As Laszlo Hanyecz himself said in a later interview: “I have no regrets about this transaction, I think it is a historic moment in the evolution of Bitcoin.” 15 years have passed, Bitcoin has become a force to be reckoned with in the global financial market, I don’t know what new heights Bitcoin will block in the next 15 years? Related reports Bitcoin Pizza Day is fragrant enough! Come to Tempo House on 5/22 to eat pizza, smoke BTC, and experience the latest plan of Taiwan Bitcoin Hub Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! Pizza was worth 360 million magnesium that year; Taiwan’s central bank issued an article on the topic, detailing virtual currency doubts, Bitcoin broke through a new high of $110,000! Trump’s tax reform detonated 20-year U.S. bond yields soared above 5%, and the U.S. stock market was wiped out “Happy 15th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day! Pizza is now worth $1.1 billion, and BTC has broken new highs to celebrate” This article was first published in BlockTempo’s “Dynamic Trend - The Most Influential Blockchain News Media”.
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Happy 15th Anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day! The pizza from back then is now worth 1.1 billion USD, and BTC has also reached a new high to celebrate.
The pizza bought with 10,000 bitcoins that year was worth more than $1.1 billion 15 years later, and the BTC coin price broke through $110,000 today, witnessing history again. (Synopsis: Bitcoin Pizza Day is fragrant enough!) 5/22 Come to Tempo House to eat pizza, smoke BTC, and experience the latest plan of Taiwan Bitcoin Hub) (Background supplement: Bitcoin Pizza Day origin story: engineers spend 10,000 BTC to buy pizza, how to set off a global crypto payment revolution? Celebrated every year on Bitcoin Pizza Day) can you imagine? Two pizzas bought with less than NT$1,300 at the time can turn into nearly NT$30 billion 15 years later! Today, May 22, 2025 is the annual Bitcoin Pizza Day, and the price of BTC has soared above $110,000, and this article will take you back to this memorable day. The most expensive pizza in history, a gorgeous transformation of 10,000 bitcoins From the beginning, in 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz in Florida, who was hungry, posted an article on the Bitcoin Talk Forum saying: I want to pay 10,000 bitcoins for 2 large pizzas so I can save some for the next day. You can make your own pizza and bring it to my house or order a few to send to my house, but my goal is to exchange Bitcoin for food that I don’t need to order myself, a bit like ordering a “breakfast platter” service in a hotel or elsewhere, something that brings you food and pleasure! He also made a choice of pizza flavors in the article, and told anyone interested to contact him quickly and exchange two American pizza chains, Papa John’s $25 pizza, with Jeremy Sturdivant (screen name Jercos), who was a self-mining at the time. - source:Blockchain.com - At that time, 10,000 bitcoins were worth almost $40, which equaled only $0.004 per coin. As a result, today, in 2025, the value of these 10,000 bitcoins has reached $1.1 billion. More than an anniversary, it’s an important milestone for Bitcoin This pizza transaction, which may seem like a big deal at the time, is significant in the history of cryptocurrency. Because it made Bitcoin go from a virtual concept on the network to the real world for the first time, proving that it is feasible to buy things with Bitcoin! As Laszlo Hanyecz himself said in a later interview: “I have no regrets about this transaction, I think it is a historic moment in the evolution of Bitcoin.” 15 years have passed, Bitcoin has become a force to be reckoned with in the global financial market, I don’t know what new heights Bitcoin will block in the next 15 years? Related reports Bitcoin Pizza Day is fragrant enough! Come to Tempo House on 5/22 to eat pizza, smoke BTC, and experience the latest plan of Taiwan Bitcoin Hub Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! Pizza was worth 360 million magnesium that year; Taiwan’s central bank issued an article on the topic, detailing virtual currency doubts, Bitcoin broke through a new high of $110,000! Trump’s tax reform detonated 20-year U.S. bond yields soared above 5%, and the U.S. stock market was wiped out “Happy 15th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day! Pizza is now worth $1.1 billion, and BTC has broken new highs to celebrate” This article was first published in BlockTempo’s “Dynamic Trend - The Most Influential Blockchain News Media”.