“I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas”: This man would be a billionaire without this 2010 purchase

In 2010, an American man bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. Today, with bitcoin continuing to rise, this man's pizzas would be worth $1 billion.

This is an anecdote that resurfaces as cryptocurrencies explode. On May 22, 2010, a man spent 10,000 bitcoins to buy two large pizzas. At that time, bitcoin had almost no value.

Laszlo Hanyecz, a 32-year-old American developer, decides to make a proposal on a specialized forum called Bitcoin Talk: “I agree to pay 10,000 bitcoins for pizza, say two large pizzas, so that I have some left over for the next day. I like to have leftover pizzas for later. What I want is just to have food delivered in exchange for bitcoins.”

Four days later, he thanks a British user who managed to order two pizzas by phone from a restaurant in Florida, in the exact city where Laszlo Hanyecz lives, according to Capital.

< h2 class="txt-int">The “Bitcoin Pizza Day”

This crazy story is now known as the “Bitcoin Pizza Day”, celebrated every year by the bitcoin community. This day is a way to poke fun at the fate of the man who lost a fortune to buy the two pizzas in 2010. In the months that followed, the man declared “that he preferred to keep his bitcoins”, responding to people asking if the offer still stood.

In the New York Times, e< /em>n December 2013, the latter confided that “it’s not like bitcoins had any value at all at the time, so the idea of ​​trading them for pizza was just incredibly cool. No one had any idea how much it would take off such a magnitude.”