The Pizza PurchaseThe first retail purchase on May 22, 2010 is probably the most famous story in Bitcoin history. Jacksonville, Florida Bitcoin “miner” Laszlo Hanyecz pays 10,000 Bitcoins that he mined himself for two pizzas. At the time, Bitcoin did technically have an exchange rate of a few cents, but who knew that? The purchase price for the pizza was approximately U$25. Selling 10,000 units of unknown computer code for two real pizzas seemed like a great deal at the time.
“It wasn’t like Bitcoins had any value back then, so the idea of trading them for a pizza was incredibly cool,” Mr. Hanyecz told the New York Times recently.
The year of 2010 sees many first for Bitcoin, including the first escrow transaction (October 16), the first mobile transaction (December
and the first time Bitcoin’s total value exceeded US$1 million on November 6, with each bitcoin trading for approx. US$0.50. Bitcoin is now a real currency.
You Can find this interesting story along with "Top 10 Greatest Moments in Bitcoin History" here:
http://cointelegraph.com/news/115146/top-10-greatest-moments-in-bitcoin-historyAnd the Original Pizza Story Started here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0 I bet he is still computing for the BTC he exchanged for pizza up to these day.
At the current price of 6000 dollars and multiplied it by 10k dollars, you can have a yacht, a real state, a resort or a shopping mall that can give you some real positive cash flow and meanwhile the pizza he intake and outtake is just a bacteria nowadays. This is one of the biggest regrets in history and one of the best lesson in holding BTC.