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Seven years ago, on May 22nd 2010, 2 pizzas were bought for 10'000 bitcoins, say USD 21 millions as of today.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-pizza-day-celebrating-pizza-bought-10000-btc/

After a terrific roll, I wouldn't be surprised if it trades at 20'000$ in 7 years!

Oh its Laszlo day and Jerco's day it snuck up on me Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day ^^
And for Canadians Victoria Day for the May Long Weekend a Pizza sounds like the perfect fit.
The original now locked thread for Nostalgia
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0

Today's Price: 0.02 or 0.01 Each

Thanks for sharing the original thread, I wasn't aware of it!

Now go buy off 100 billion doge because it might some day be worth $1000/Doge, lol who sold those pizzas and do they still have them or have they dumped long time ago?
In my area a decent pizza with lots of extra cheese costs $8 and a number one pizza with best quality could go high as $25.
Well after taking a bath and prayers I'm going to get a pizza and eat with my mom since only we both are at home right now. :)

How I wish I have that then I was exposed to this goldmine, I would have been super rich by this day beyond imagination not just by working myself out which I might not even make that money anytime soon but just by getting an information, believe in it, and act on it and boom wealth has been gotten.

It seems that everyone is now more concern about the potential activation of Segwit within weeks(??). I hope the "rumour" is true and I think most likely the pizzas will become even more expensive retrospectively!!

I have to admit that I had a great laughter when I see this thread, we really need to create an event every year on this day!
 ;D

wow bringing back those old days were btc is not that much popular and haven't got any exposure if we just can predict what will happen
in the future maybe most of us already rich and already got stable life style, bitcoin is a huge success, thanks OP for allowing us to know
that pizza day 7 years ago and learn to hold for another 7 years and expect for more value.

No prob glad you enjoyed reading it, heliacal is down now sort of being pizza day and the way back machine has robot txt on that page so might be worth saving a few snapshots of it for future generations if other people are collectors of pizza pictures :P.
https://i.imgur.com/6cfyRp2g.png

http://www.heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/pizza/
It still loads though after a few tries.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/22/bitcoin-price-hits-fresh-record-high-above-2100.html
While being worth $30 at the time, Hanyecz pizzas would now cost $21.8 million at current bitcoin prices or 10.4 million for one.
If you bought $100 of bitcoin at the 0.003 cent price on May 22, 2010, you'd now be sitting on around $72.9 million

Wow. This is part of the Bitcoin history that is really popular and I am not fully aware that this pizza transaction is recorded here in this great forum. Indeed, this is a nostalgic look at the way Bitcoin is so successful as the king of the digital currency and the one that started it all. How lucky are those who made a gamble to buy Bitcoin at its early stage and hold them no matter what...they must be millionaires today.

The most expensive pizza...true!

Happy bitcoin pizza day!

I'm using mobi wallet at the moment and they've sent me a notification regarding bitcoin pizza day - thats how i know today is the day, otherwise i would have certainly forgot :D

The pizza is now worth $23 million dollars.... If remember correctly he bought 2 pizzas from papa johns so thats $11.5 million each. Nobody really knows what happened to the coins afterwards, hopefully the seller held the bitcoins because he deserved to be rewarded as the first known transaction for a tangible item in bitcoin history :D

Ha, ha, I completely forgot about that. That was one of the moments in Bitcoins history to remember. That was probably the most expensive pizza in the world, hope it was worth it.
Thank you for reminding us on this, I'm sure many people don't know about it or have forgotten.

That is when bitcoin starts :) Its value is too small, there is a question here, has anyone stored it up to the present time? It was a long time for a business plan, and if so, maybe now he is an extremely wealthy person, a profit worth the wait.

I really do not know about this, I just joined this forum a year ago and I do not know much about bitcoin, I just know bitcoin with terrible value at the present time, I have never think that bitcoin was so cheap. what a surprise.

i have been read the thread that indeed if we see the price on that year bitcoin was pretty cheap even 10.000 btc only enough for 1 pizza but with the current year prove that bitcoin has more grow and grow every years and only less than 8 years bitcoin has been change from worthless became valuable

All I can say is that if I was the person who made that purchase, I would literally be shooting myself in the head right now. But, he probably still does have quite a lot of Bitcoin if he bought the pizzas for 10k Bitcoin.

HAPPY BITCOIN PIZZA DAY.

With this I admit that I will laugh on the tread, for every year it's a great show to celebrate Pizza Bitcoin day

Anyhow it's good to have a bitcoin pizza day celebration. Soon by the years to come when bitcoin and Virtual currency becomes more popular we can see most of the stores accepting bitcoin making bitcoin pizza day sale with more discounts. Lets cheer up on this day to get a small portion of the highly valuable pizza.

If i were the person who sent 10,000 bitcoin for a pizza then it will bug my mind everyday because that is like betting on a lottery and burning the paper and in the next few weeks you will find out that you actually win the lottery. This is also a good example for the importance of patience because this word called patience will help us to become better and make better decisions.

Hahaah what a wonderful day! the first ever bitcoin purchase. Im sure many people in the forum will eventually feel something similar with other coins and Bitcoin itself.

Will celebrate with a pizza! Cheers.

Would be fun to know if the pizza seller kept his 10'000 bitcoins or sold them for 30$ days later !!!

Time flies so fast, well spending 10k bitcoins for a couple of pizzas i think it was affordable at that time, but seriously not only that pizza but also there are many stuffs that the early adopter spent for it when the price was really low, maybe in many years later bitcoin that we have spent right now would be like lazlo's story. Anyway lazlo's thread should be pinned or maybe create a wax replica of that pizza for Madame Tussaud Museum, If i were lazlo i would be shock if he didn't buy those pizzas he would be a millionere.

I have celebrated this day with the community for years now and this year has been no different, homemade pizza this year though, maybe i should tip the girl that made it with some bitcoins  ;)

He probably sold them, you can look at the address of the original transaction here:
https://blockchain.info/address/17SkEw2md5avVNyYgj6RiXuQKNwkXaxFyQ

This is Lazlo's address, 81000 Bitcoins spent on pizza in total, he mentions it in another thread.
https://blockchain.info/address/1XPTgDRhN8RFnzniWCddobD9iKZatrvH4

This is an exciting and wonderful news to all of us bitcoiners. But I do wonder if that pizza house have not sold all of his bitcoins then he will be a millionaire today but if he has sold them all then he would have regret it. I am just curious is that pizza shop still existing today? I hope it does since it has become a historical place for bitcoin.

Back then this was mostly fun and experimental, and nobody really took this very seriously. Laszlo was not the only person who spend loads of

bitcoins on nonsense. I bet ya, there are many people out there who still owns Bitcoin t-shirts worth a few 1000 dollars.  ::) ... This is the thing..

bitcoins are going to increase in value over time... if you hoard forever, you will never gain any profit from it... If I take profits now, and pay all

my debt for instance... I would gain the interest on that debt and still be happy after a few year... This is a journey... enjoy it and always keep

some bitcoins stored away for the day this thing goes to the Moon.  ;D

Look at the average price today :D

https://i.imgur.com/N3mRgXU.png

Another new ATH on bitcoin pizza day, how apt. I think I will have to celebrate by getting a pizza delivery tonight. It would be rude not to wouldn't it.

This is gentlemen.

There was a story I read a while back. I think it was here. A guy that sold a house he inherited for bitcoin. The price took a dive shortly after, but is well over the amount today. Has there been an update? Does anyone know if the seller got scared and sold at a loss or held on to them?

That is crazy to pay so much for pizza :) its deserved more than that.

Well there always a good reason to work for a pizza place lucky guy.

I saw this on yahoo finance and I was like, eh? I didn't understand at first but upon realizing oh yeah the legendary laszlo bought pizza's with 10,000 bitcoins. This makes me crave and I want to celebrate our special day with my partner to a pizza parlor later. Happy bitcoin pizza day everyone more expensive pizzas to come.

It's more than just a new ATH, if you read it as a date in European format... 22-05-10 ;)

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day people, cheers! Guess it's a great lesson to all and sundry, it's better to join now than ever because maybe we might be buying a private jet with just 1 Bitcoin in 10 years.

Even if I'm on his current situation if the price of bitcoin is not that just promising way back that time. I'm not going to have a second thought of buying that for real because my reaction would be, "woah, this is real I bought pizza with my bitcoins."
Anyway happy bitcoin pizza day, this is history.

I do feel pain that he sold all his Bitcoin's at a dollar
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/disruptions-betting-on-bitcoin/?_r=0

He may have ended up 4K richer but GAH! From 2013 to now.

Of course we never did learn if he re-entered into the positions again ^^.

Thanks for posting it remainds me one english singer artist she rejected offer to perform concert and be paid with ,when btc price was 1300% she rejected over 1mln$ now it is 2mln$.Art is priceless so who care

I want to wish all forum members a Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day, it's going down in history with us and we need to celebrate this day annually. It's a big loss for pizza but it's a lesson to the panic sellers and hard to convince guys.

Sad for Lazlo indeed !
We should think about a way to commemorate this.
A yearly donation of satoshis or pizzas to charity.

Christ, where are you getting your pizzas?  I've never seen any pizzas cost $22 to $44, they're usually $10 or so around here.

Today's price:  about 0.005 each, or more like 0.001 if you buy from a supermarket.

Damn, I read this in the newspaper today. It's crazy to think about, and how far we've come with Bitcoins.

If that pizza guy didn't care to sell his coins, he's a millionaire now!

I remember hearing about this when bitcoin first hit gold parity in 2013.  I was so jealous.

Ohh so it is this is really a bad thing for the guy who buy a pizza for that price if he only have knowledge about this cryptocurrency he is really rich  today because of that amount bad thing i guess its the most thing he do that he regrit the most in his life so dont mind this just continue trading and investing in bitcoin.

It was not predictwd that bitcoin value will grow this big, anyway at least it was proven that we can buy any with bitcoin.

A very, very big milestone for Bitcoin that's worth remembering, especially in these times when we're not sure where we're heading... :)

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!

I've celebrated for 5 years now.  Lots of good times, and good pizza!

https://twitter.com/Montybitcoin

Laszlo was offering premium pricing since it was the first transaction who knew that his tip for home delivery would end up in the millions a few years later.


Sounds like a neat project, a lifetime supply of Pizza's for Laszlo would be amusing or maybe someone will make a Bitcoin Pizza franchise and he will be the face and advertising of it. Ha-ha

Sounds like he would appreciate it. I don't think he held onto very many bitcoins at all. His last posts say single digit. Ouch!

The circle of life would be ironic and a bit cruel though if the one who started the franchise was Jerco and the Pizza company came to be called Jerco's Bitcoin Pizza Delivery Service but one could always appreciate the subtleties in that regardless.

Add's on

Ahem my Friedcat T-Shirt is a collectible good Sir mumbles 2013

sounds like sarcastic haha. I can't imagine how his reaction now with bitcoin prices is rising and next time think ahead if to buy somethings by bitcoin
thanks for giving the original thread "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0)"
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day For Everyone  especially for Laszlo

Let's celebrate that every year there with a great joyful laughter by looking at this tread.

Good day Pizza Bitcoin.

As I'm typing these where 1 Bitcoin equals 2251.00 US Dollar approximately 22510000 million dollars enough to invest in shopping malls and hardware's. I think the owner of 10000 Bitcoin at that time is happy that he bought the pizza using Bitcoin but I wonder how he feel now that bitcoins price is more than what he think it is.
If it is me I'll be thinking about it for an hour everyday of the rest of my life.

$2200 on #BitcoinPizzaDay.

EPIC!

#ToTheMoon

Every few weeks I am looking backward thinking "I should have".  I really should have. The awesome thing is in a few years we will be those lucky people who held a few coins and will be buying homes and sitting on a nest egg that started here.  Steven Forbes, Bill Gates and John Macafee all agree that a single Bitcoin may amount to enough to purchase a home with in 10 years.  That's awesome !!

I do wish I could sell a pizza and become a millionaire too though.  Who wouldn't?  :) just for  fun please read the article at tinyurl.com/bitcoinhunger

Damn, that was an expensive bite of pizza. Poor guy, I really hope he s managed to at least capitalize on this propaganda.

As much as I like the significance of it for the sake of the bitcoin culture,I equally hate it as its more of a psychological thing and not logical at all.Look at it this way,back in the 70's if you would have bought land as a commodity,you would be a billionaire by selling it in today's real estate rate.That's how investments work.Almost all the commodities like gold,silver follow the same pattern.People are making a hype of it just because it is a digital asset.   

I wouldn't wonder if he bought those 2 pizzas at that amount, I mean how much was 10k bitcoin around 2010 lets say $0.0025/BTC 'cause it was around $25 for both pizzas. I'm sure that person who paid for the pizza would be scratching his head thinking why'd he bought those pizzas at that amount 'cause its worth millions by now.

If I were an owner of a shop whom they bought that pizza from and kept all those bitcoins all these years, man I would be blown away by where the value stands at right now. That is almost equivalent to how much an A-list Hollywood actor would make in a movie, or an NBA superstar's salary for one year. I can just imagine how much the price would be a couple of years from now.

I'm happy that the pizza transaction took place.

I'm happy I found Bitcoin in 2013 and not 2010.*

I'm happy I have held to some coins since then.

I'm happy.

GL to all!

I had heard that history before but I had thought that it was fake. It's crazy that he bought a pizza for this amount. I saw pics on twitter of people eating pizza lol, it's nice that Bitcoin community remembers that's day and Bitcoin's growth.

This is the first time I know about it, it's amazing, thanks for your notice at this forum, if this article does not exist, I will never know about it.

Does anyone know where that guy is and what hes doing these days? Hes not serving pizzas for a living I hope. Hehehe. That would be so ironic.

I can feel the sadness of this post the guy who bought pizza for $10000 must have some regrets right now and probably thinking i should have not use my bitcoins to buy pizza that's worth $10000

Oh well, happy pizza day everyone.

We should name it Bitzza day ;) Instead two words.

"Happy Bitzza Day!" Sounds better.

This is one of the regretful event for me because he just lost the fortune of getting rich in just a short period of time. Back in the day like in the year of 2010, the 100 USD already cost now at least 70M USD and that is very ridiculous and i hope back in 2010, i invested at least 50 USD in bitcoin and not spending time on video games.

I don't have an idea on where laszlo is now. I read somewhere here in forum that he doesn't have bitcoin much I don't know if that is for real or he does have mined a lot of bitcoin. But there's one word that he said that he didn't regret when he did bought pizza's for 10,000 bitcoin. Actually I'm the one that is feeling sorry with his move but it's the start of the transactions in bitcoin and he should be credited all the time because if it is not because of him, there's no next move of transaction.

It was 2205.10... now read it as 22-05-10

OMEN! :D

Funny indeed !!!

It's really symbolic that Bitcoin reached all time highest price - $2200 exactly on Bitcoin Pizza day. Coincidence? I don't think so :D
Now it's hard to imagine, how big bitcoin price can be on the next Bitcoin Pizza Day. I don't even try to predict.

Has anyone studied the bitcoin pizza day effect?

I'm curious what the historical effect has been...

A couple of years ago, a pizza could be someone getting very rich right now. The person must have been sorry, he paid the pizza with some money that could be used to buy a luxury building. He will not be able to sleep for several months.  ;D

People just cant move on on this one. ;D They still remember this legendary pizza day who have been bought for 10k bitcoins. Its really sad for the person who buy that pizza but well theres no time to regret because we don't know the future comes and didn't expect that the price of bitcoin as of now is 2000x fold. I'm curious on where is the pizza boy who do receive the bitcoin.

Yeah right! I read that story well the first bitcoin is used to buy a pizza and it is paid with a whole bitcoin well that time is the price of bitcoin is pretty low so sort of a whole bitcoin is enough to pay the pizza but now if the pizza boy is receiving bitcoin always and he/she holding it right now then we could pretty say that he should be rich right now

first transaction to buy real thing. 10000 bitcoin now worth $20000000. I hope that the pizzaman still keeps his bitcoin in his wallet. He will be rich and no need to sell pizza anymore haha

I didn't know this that there is a lot of bitcoins that is wasted for only a pizza, Who will buy a pizza with 10k bitcoins? If i were the buyer, then i will just pay it by the fiat money and don't waste that 10k bitcoins that can make me millionaire within a year.

It kind of makes sense:

People stocked up on BTC for BPD then SOLD some BTCfor pizza.....

This is a sign guys. LOL. It means that in another 7 years or so bitcoin price will like quadruple in price. I hope the guy who bought the pizza is not regretting what he did. He maybe still around, accumulating as much bitcoin, but not buying a pizza anytime soon. He doesn't like pizza anymore.

Haha, nice. Yeah I heard of this guy that bought $27 in Bitcoin when it was worth $13 a bitcoin and now he has enough to build a house! I wish I had known about it in 2013 because then I would be so rich. The price is rising pretty fast right now though too! Hope it keeps rising to a million! That would take a while though. I am not sure if that will be anytime soon.

If a person can pay that much for a pizza then he might also have some other amount of bitcoin and he will have tat in his wallet so I am sure that he will be a more millionaire with his remaining bitcoins and he will now take care of his bitcoins.

Pizza, the meal of champions  ;D

$27 at $13/bitcoin... So that's 2 1/13 bitcoin.
2 1/13 bitcoin now equals 2 1/13 * 2471.87 = $5134 worth of Bitcoin he has now then...
OFcourse 5k is awesome to have, but most countries would not allow you to build a house for just 5k

I think that $27 story was when it was WAY cheaper.

Or he can't do Maths.  ;D

Not only this year, two years ago when I am new to bitcoin and heard this news I really surprised. And now am I surprised? Yes, I am still surprised because the price is still make us surprise. We can't say he is an idiot to throw his 10k btc, Because he can't read the future. But we can blame ourselves to not buy it when we know the price will keep rising up.

I think 1 doge will not worth $1000 because that price is very big . I think the possible high pricr of doge is only $1 only because the price is only 150 satoshi. But everything will possible to happen. The price of the pizza here in my place is only 4 dollars each and they have already cheese but if you have more cheese you can $1 only .

Op will bought pizza befire the price 10 bitcoin and if they sell it today its more than 20,000 dollars that is very big amount. But the price on that year is very low price so did not know the price will reaach very high.

Seeing this photos makes me Hungry. I think  I will buy some pizza's later. This kind of celebration is nice, because it helps people recognized more what is bitcoin.

Maybe. But a person who sells that much BTC for a couple pizzas might have also already sold his whole stockpile of coins at lower prices. I know Im more wrong than right on this but thats the impression I have on him.

yes that is also possible but as we know that he have adopted bitcoin as a payment/money so it is the nature of every person that he do not spend all of their money but spend some part of his money and try to save more part of it for the future needs or for future investment etc.

Let's party with Pizza Bitcoin everything.

Isnt that treating BTC more like a stock or a security? If its treated really like money, then we should start spending it. But most of us dont. We all love to tuck it in cold storage and squirrel it away like were so afraid that someone might steal it from us.

So if he did really treat it as money then maybe he did go broke.

You made a nice point but not everyone is fond of buying materialistic things.He who plans for the future holds the key for the riches.They can do whatever they want with their bitcoins.Had the pizza guy saved those coins,he would probably have a house by the beach today.

He didn't go broke.He got what he paid for.

it was a memorable day, I don't agree with people making fun of the exchange of thousands of BTC to a pizza, that was it's value at that time, so you can't look at it by today's standards, for example if you somehow could contact google makers when it was just a project you could have made billions for a relatively small startup investment.

This one always shows how something like BTC can turn to be an unprecedented success, who would have expected a no-name currency that people used to play around with would be so much success (answer: allot seemed to think so, at least allot of those oriented in development).

Anyway, I don't see it as an exceptionally bad deal at the time, These 10,000 worthed a pizza at the time (or even less), hence it's all good and I'm sure both of them are much bitcoin-richer than us the readers.

That's a hell of a Papa John's pizza right there and I wonder if it has some pineapples in it? But kidding aside, Laszlo just put his mark forever in the bitcoin economy because of the ever increasing price of bitcoin and with 10,000 btc.

And to this day, I still wonder whether laszlo still has couple of tens of thousands of bitcoins in his disposal?

Lazslo was interviewed by Time magazine & said he had no regrets.  I'm sure he mined and kept manymore BTC

He's a BTC Hero.  He got the blockchain transactions rolling.

But still 10,000 bitcoin is hard to mine considering the total volume of btc is not big. I think deep inside he want to hang on the rope now. :D

Yeah because it will also serves a anniversary of bitcoin. More event like this will encourage more people to used bitcoin because while working for it to earn money there are time to enjoy and celebrate things that are connected to bitcoin.

I cashed out some Bitcoin and bought a pizza in honour of this special occasion :) Bet that buy eh sold the pizza is laughing his ass all the way to the bank and they buy who bought it better had enjoyed the most expensive pizza in the world. ^^


Maybe he kept a whole load of Bitcoin. If he had any sense he would have. Maybe he had another 10k more or even more. Who knows. I personally believe he had many to spare.

Haha, they must have been very good pizzas. It's like you cut your private keys into pizza-paste then eat. I wish we had a pizza-collectible that represents this important historical event.

Happy Birthday I cant imaginate now that somebody sold for that amount of bitcoin.I wilould never do that in their place because he could know that bitcoin  will grow.

in that time, it wasn't an actually a bad deal IMO, However it just shows you how reliable, resilient and constitutionality increasing in value from the first day to day, even the change from down to upward trend it improves regularly over long term till now.

Terrific roll indeed, no one in the world at that time, could have expected something like this is happening "the rise of bitcoin to this level" as well as an exchange like this.. Both parties already have way more coins than us probably and the pizza was worth that in the time.

Yeah, happy pizza day.  I'd like to add that 8 years after bitcoin's creation you still can't buy a pizza anywhere in the United States.  At least I don't know of any pizzerias that accept bitcoin.  Thus we still need progress in that area.  And I'd be more than glad to pay for my pie with bitcoin!

That's exactly what Lazslo said in his interview....but folks won't read that & will keep speculating, hahaha.

Its been a long time since bitcoin was started, they all think it was a scam, and nothing can expect it could be this valuable,  but suddenly it gets a support which brings it on top. Now everyone who know bitcoin that time is regretting on the oppurtunity they lost. Hoping to come back to past and buy bitcoin as much as i can. Hahaha, happy pizza day young fellas,

When I first heard about the 10000 pizza I was shocked and BTC was just $10 or so, now it's almost a miracle... I wonder if few years later it will be in the billion :P
That pizza better have been good.

I think the pizza guy accepted bitcoin even bitcoin had no value I think this 10000 btc he deserved if he gives pizza thag guy with kind heart