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The Man Behind Bitcoin Pizza Day Spent More Bitcoin Than You Think

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Today, Bitcoin fans around the world are savoring pizza to celebrate Laszlo Hanyecz’s famous pizza order on May 22, 2010. On this day 15 years ago, Hanyecz – an early Bitcoin developer and miner – paid another early bitcoin adopter 10,000 BTC in exchange for two large Papa John’s pizzas. This marked the first real world purchase of any good with the cryptocurrency, which was barely a year old at the time. Laszlo Hanyecz's original Bitcoin Pizza Day post on May 18, 2010. His request was fulfilled by ... More Bitcoiners observe this greasy, bitcoin-themed simulacrum of Thanksgiving with commiseration as much as celebration, because those 10,000 BTC are now worth more than $1 billion. But what most people don’t realize is that Hanyecz may have spent as much as 79,000 BTC on follow-on pizza purchases that year, a sum that would be worth more than $8.7 billion today. And lost still in the gobsmacked reactions to the billion-dollar forfeit is the question: how did Hanyecz acquire all this bi

Forbes Digital Assets The Man Behind Bitcoin Pizza Day Spent More Bitcoin Than You Think By Colin Harper , Senior Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Colin is the Editor-in-Chief of Blockspace Media Follow Author May 22, 2025, 03:00am EDT May 29, 2025, 07:00pm EDT The famous pizzas from Laszlo Hanyecz's May 22, 2010 Bitcoin Pizza Day purchase Laszlo Hanyecz For Bitcoiners, May 22 – known as Bitcoin Pizza Day – is a day for feasting. Today, Bitcoin fans around the world are savoring pizza to celebrate Laszlo Hanyecz’s famous pizza order on May 22,

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