On the 15th anniversary of this legendary moment, we look back at one of the most defining stories in Bitcoin’s history: Paying for pizza with Cryptocurrency: Laszlo Hanyecz and the 10,000 Bitcoin Pizza Purchase. Of course, it didn’t seem like a defining moment in history back then, but with a few years of hindsight, we’re able to see Bitcoin’s rise from obscurity to financial powerhouse. On May 22, 2010, Hanyecz made a very strange trade. He traded 10,000 BTC (valued at approximately $40) for two extravagantly topped pizzas. At the time, Bitcoin was barely a blip on the radar of
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