Who bought pizza for 10000 Bitcoins?

Papa John’s is giving away 10,000 slices of pizza to commemorate the 10,000 bitcoins paid for two by Laszlo Hanyecz back in 2010. Justin Falciola, SVP, chief insights & technology officer, told Insider about the thinking behind the strategy.

In 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 Bitcoins at a local pizza restaurant called Papa John’s to buy himself two pizzas.

A man who sold two pizzas for Bitcoin now worth more than USD 365 million has admitted he blew his eye-watering earnings. In May 2010, then a 19-year-old California student, Jeremy Sturdivant noticed a bizarre request on a cryptocurrency internet forum.25 May 2021

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.