The price of the first two pizzas bought with bitcoins is now $ 290 million

Today, the bitcoin community is celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day. Exactly 12 years ago, programmer Laszlo Heinitz bought two Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 BTC.

On the BitcoinTalk forum, he tried to find someone who would exchange 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. People suggested that he simply sell all his bitcoins ($ 41 at the time) and order a pizza, but he refused this offer because he wanted to be the first to exchange BTC for pizza.

on May 22, 2010, Laszlo reported that he managed to exchange bitcoins for pizza. Today, 10,000 BTC are worth about $ 290 million.