Home / Events / Bitcoin Pizza Day
May 22, 2010 Bitcoin Pizza Day
On May 22, 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. It is the best-known first real-world Bitcoin purchase.
- Date
- May 22, 2010
- Price paid
- 10,000 BTC
- Worth then
- ≈ $40
What happened
Hanyecz posted on the Bitcointalk forum offering 10,000 BTC for a couple of pizzas. Days later another user ordered two Papa John’s pizzas for him and received the coins. At that time the bitcoins were worth roughly $40.
Today the date is celebrated each year as Bitcoin Pizza Day. The story is told both as a milestone, because it gave Bitcoin its first widely cited price in goods, and as a cautionary tale about how much those coins would be worth later.
Why it mattered
The pizza purchase showed that Bitcoin could buy something real. Use the Bitcoin calculator to see how a purchase from that year looks today.
BitcoinYears.com is for sale
A short, memorable domain for Bitcoin news, history, data and media. Serious inquiries welcome.