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🍕 10,000 BTC for Two Pizzas — The Transaction That Still Hurts You 16 Years Later
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day to everyone in this community who has ever stayed up until 3 a.m. watching candles. Today is our holiday, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
May 22, 2010. Laszlo Hanyecz made history by spending 10,000 BTC on two Papa John’s pizzas. With today’s price around $74,000 per coin, that’s about $740 million worth of pizza. Two pizzas. $740 million dollars. I really can’t type that without feeling something in my chest.
But here’s the perspective that most people overlook—Laszlo wasn’t careless. He was a pioneer. He proved that Bitcoin could work as real currency at a time when most people thought it was worthless internet money. That transaction didn’t destroy value. It created a legacy. It gave crypto the first real-world proof of concept and a birthday celebrated by the entire industry every year.
Buying pizza was literally the reason we’re all here today.
I got into crypto years after Pizza Day, but I still have my own “what if I had held” story. My first altcoin bet, where I got a 2x and ran immediately—only to watch it do 40x in the following six months. We all have that trade. The one that teaches you patience the hard way.
That’s what Pizza Day is really about. It’s not just about Laszlo’s pizza. It’s about every trade we made too early, every coin we sold at the bottom, every time we underestimated what this technology was building. And then coming back because we believe.
BTC today in $74K . Down from its peak, but still up an unimaginable amount from two pizzas. The story isn’t over. Not even close.
Now tell me—what’s your most painful crypto “I sold too early” story? Because Pizza Day is the only day we’re all allowed to admit it.
Share your best crypto “I should have held” story below—what trade do you still think about when you’re trying to sleep?
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