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The $300M Pizza That Changed Everything

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May 22, 2010 wasn’t just another day in crypto history—it was the day a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz casually changed the entire narrative around Bitcoin.

He wanted pizza. So he threw out a post on BitcoinTalk: “Anyone wanna trade 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pizzas?” Someone said yes. Deal done.

At the time? 10,000 Bitcoin = ~$30. Nobody cared. Bitcoin was still a niche experiment that most people thought was a scam.

Fast forward to today: those same 10,000 BTC are worth over $300 million.

Here’s the wild part—Laszlo has zero regrets. When asked about it later, he basically said: “I was just happy Bitcoin actually worked for buying real-world stuff.” That’s the kind of vision early adopters had.

The lesson? The earliest believers weren’t chasing moon shots—they just believed the tech would work. And they weren’t wrong.

Every May 22, the crypto community celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day. Not as a meme about a missed fortune, but as a reminder of what happens when people actually use the technology instead of just speculating.

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