Laszlo Hanyecz

A US-based man who sold pizzas for Bitcoins now worth more than $365 million recently admitted that he blew his earnings. Back in 2010, the then 19-year-old California student, Jeremy Sturdivant, had noticed a request on a cryptocurrency internet forum – ‘Bitcoin Talk’.

Jeremy Sturdivant, aged 19 at the time, regrets that he didn’t see the potential in crypto . Sturdivant’s story is being retold as part of Bitcoin Pizza Day, which is celebrated annually on May 22 to recognise the first time someone used Bitcoin to make a physical purchase.25 May 2021

But Bitcoin wasn’t yet an acceptable currency in the market. So, how did Laszlo Hanyecz trade his coins? In 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 Bitcoins at a local pizza restaurant called Papa John’s to buy himself two pizzas . Back then his Bitcoins were worth only $40.

The receiver of the first bitcoin transaction was Hal Finney , who had created the first reusable proof-of-work system (RPoW) in 2004. Finney downloaded the bitcoin software on its release date, and on 12 January 2009 received ten bitcoins from Nakamoto.

Laszlo Hanyecz is a computer programmer from the state of Florida in the United States . With the massive growth in the value of cryptocurrencies across the world, the 10,000 Bitcoins that he spent on pizzas in 2010 are worth approximately $306 million in 2021.