As a simple programmer from Florida, bought two pizzas for $ 83 million

On may 22, the cryptocurrency community celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day: on this day in 2010, programmer Laszlo Heinitz (Laszlo Hanyecz) bought two pizzas for 10 thousand bitcoins. This purchase is for a virtual currency was the first in the real world. For the course of 2019 the price of the pizza is around $ 80 million.

On this day, exactly nine years ago, Laszlo Heinitz from Florida was paid 10,000 PTS for two pizzas that Papa John's was worth $ 25. May 18, he published a post on cryptocurrency forum with a request to sell him two large pizzas — "preferably any standard, no weird fillings like fish and things like that." Instead, he offered bitcoins, which at that time was worth about $ 40.

Laszlo says that he offered such a large sum in the hope that someone will respond. And this person is found — a 19-year-old Jeremy Sturdivant (Jeremy Sturdivant), who lived at the other end of the country.

Jeremy Sturdivant

Then Jeremy did not even know that gets millions of potential dollars. Both parties were very happy with the deal that went down in history as the world's first purchase with bitcoin.

The same pizza from Papa John's, bought Helicam for 10 thousand bitcoins

Laszlo Heinitz entered the history of the cryptocurrency world as "the man who lost millions due to pizza", but his sacrifice helped launch the adoption of this virtual currency around the world. And now on may 22 around the world celebrate the "Day of the bitcoin pizza" (Bitcoin Pizza Day).

The celebration in the company BTC.com

Now, 8 years later, Laszlo Heinitz says of his purchase of 2010:

Florida programmer mainil bitcoins for fun and spent them all on different things to a sharp jump rate cryptocurrencies. But about the lost millions, he does not regret. In 2018 Laszlo again bought two large pizzas for bitcoins, but this time the ordering cost him only in 0,00649 bitcoin (67 dollars).

Laszlo Heinitz with their children

Sturdivant, too, was not destined to be a millionaire: the cryptocurrency received for the pizza, he took on a trip with a girl in the United States.

Today, bitcoins are trading at around 8 thousand dollars according to Coinmarketcap 20:30 GMT 21 may 2019, the price of coins equal 7951,60 dollar capitalization — 140,8 billion.