Remember the story about the guy who bought pizza for 10,000 bitcoins? Tomorrow, May 22nd, the crypto community will once again remember this day. Laszlo Hanyecz made this transaction exactly 16 years ago — on May 22, 2010. Back then, two pizzas cost him $41. Sounds like a good deal, right?

But here’s the thing. If Laszlo Hanyecz had sold those bitcoins today, at the current price of around $77,000 per coin, two pizzas would be worth nearly $770 billion. Yes, you read that right — hundreds of billions. These are the most expensive pizzas in human history, without exaggeration.

But the main question arises — does Laszlo Hanyecz even have those bitcoins? He has never revealed what happened to his coins. Maybe he kept them and is now one of the richest people on the planet? Or he sold them when the price was in the hundreds of dollars, thinking it was already the peak? There’s also a third option — he simply lost access to his wallet, as happened to many early crypto enthusiasts.

Laszlo Hanyecz’s story is important not so much because he could be a billionaire. What matters is that his transaction proved — Bitcoin can work as a real means of payment. It was the first commercial transaction that showed that cryptocurrency is not just a theory, but a tool that can be used in real life.

The two pizzas bought by Laszlo laid the foundation for an entire ecosystem. Today, the cryptocurrency market is valued in trillions of dollars, and it all started exactly from this moment. Bitcoin Pizza Day is not just a meme in the crypto community; it’s a reminder of how it all began and where it has led.