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🍕 BTC Pizza Day: One slice of pizza, two worlds, countless "what ifs"

1. Story: The man who bought two pies with ten thousand bitcoins

May 22, 2010, Florida, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz, hungry, opened the BitcoinTalk forum. He posted: "I’ll pay 10,000 BTC for two large pizzas—preferably with Italian sausage and peppers, and the other with mushrooms and olives." At that time, 1 BTC was less than half a cent, so 10,000 coins ≈ $25.

The post sat for several days, unnoticed. Until the fourth day, a 19-year-old British teenager, jercos (real name Jeremy Sturdivant), said: "I’ll order Papa John’s for you, you send the coins." The deal was made. Laszlo took a photo—pixelated, two cardboard boxes on the table, the pizzas inside looking plain and unimpressive.

What happened next?

· Those 10,000 BTC, at the previous bull market peak of $73,000, would be worth $7.3 billion.
· Laszlo later spent nearly 100k BTC on pizzas, gear, and server time. Today (2026.5.20, BTC ≈ $68,500), that’s over $730M in total value.
· Does he regret it? Last year, he said in an interview: "I regret not buying a few more flavors. Bitcoin was meant to be spent, not hoarded. If everyone just hoarded and didn’t spend, it would just be a string of code forever."

But there’s another side to the story—Laszlo isn’t just the “Pizza Guy.” He developed the first Mac version of a Bitcoin client, and more importantly, he invented GPU mining. His code allowed ordinary people to mine with graphics cards, ending the era of CPU mining. Satoshi once emailed him, saying: “I’m a bit worried, this might push network control toward hardware advantage.” Laszlo later joked: “I might have messed up Bitcoin.”

So today, whenever you see graphics cards out of stock or mining rigs roaring, remember: this man’s other side is the father of mining. And his cost? Just two slices of pizza.

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2. Classic Pizza Day memes, bittersweet with laughter

1. “HODL or Starve”
A picture: on the left, Laszlo smiling at a pizza; on the right, today’s hodlers staring at K-line charts, eating cold bread. Caption: “He ate the pizza, we ate the lesson.”
2. “Time Travel Warning”
Meme: four people rushing into the 2010 pizza shop, grabbing Laszlo’s arm, saying: “Don’t pay with BTC! Use USD! I’ll give you 10 more fried chickens!” Laszlo looks confused: “USD? What trash is that?”
3. “Pizza Index”
A community-created indicator: when BTC prices fluctuate wildly, some say the “Pizza Index” warns—if market sentiment feels as tense as Laszlo waiting for his pizza during those four days, a reversal is near.
4. The ultimate soul-searching question
“If you could go back to 2010, would you stop him from buying pizza, or order your own and then use the remaining money to buy all of New York?”
A popular answer: “I’d open a pizza shop next to him, only accept BTC, then sell at the 2021 high, buy back in, and sell again… Never mind, I’ll just dream.”

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Bitcoin Pizza Day isn’t about mocking the “missed billions,” but celebrating a simple truth: the value of money lies in exchange, and exchange in life. Laszlo got the pizza he wanted, and the entire crypto world gained its first “real-world exchange rate.”

So today, buy a slice of pizza—whether with BTC, USDT, or cash. Take a photo and post in the group, with a line:

“Salute to the hungry man who feeds the future.”

🍕 Happy Pizza Day! Don’t let your coins go hungry, and don’t let yourself go hungry.