It's the annual Bitcoin Pizza Festival again. The Pizza Festival on May 22 is one of the biggest memes in the cryptocurrency circle.
The festival came from the man who bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins, Laszlo Hanyecz. Please take a look at the origin of the pizza festival and the story of Laszlo Hanyecz.
At 12:35 on May 18, 2010, a user with the ID of Laszlo posted a bounty post on the Bitcoin forum, willing to exchange 10,000 bitcoins for two large pizzas, the seller can make his own or order takeout for him, in which he also detailed his taste preferences.
The post didn't get much immediate reaction, and only a few users offered to buy him pizza, but none of them were in the United States, so it couldn't be done. Bitcoin was just around in 2010 and didn't have a concept of trading, when 10,000 bitcoins were worth about $30, so this made Laszlo wonder if his price was too low.
It wasn't until four days later, on May 22, that Laszlo replied on the forum that he had successfully purchased pizza. He also shared a pizza photo with netizens, and you can feel his excitement across the screen.
This is the first transaction recorded since the birth of Bitcoin, as the price of Bitcoin is getting higher and higher, some netizens continue to update the latest market price of these two pizzas under this post, Laszlo also left a message saying that he did not expect Bitcoin to rise so fast.
And the dude who bought two pizzas with 10,000 bitcoins is a programmer from Florida, USA, named Laszlo Hanyecz, he was one of the first people to contact bitcoin, shortly after the emergence of bitcoin, he began to mine coins, and even made software to mine bitcoins with graphics cards, bitcoin early mining is not difficult, Laszlo Hanyecz soon saved tens of thousands of bitcoins.
Today, the value of his lunch has soared to $470 million. Even so, Laszlo Hanyecz insists that he has not regretted this impulse purchase, nor has he lost sleep.
In fact, after completing the first transaction, Laszlo Hanyecz began to pay frequently with bitcoin, spending about 100,000 bitcoins before and after, which is now worth more than $4 billion. In his words, he was quite happy during that time, after all, he could eat free pizza with a graphics card.
Didn't get rich with Bitcoin? These are unknown. He did not use this to hype himself, nor did he open his own social media accounts, and he has always kept a low profile. In fact, as a programmer, the annual income in the United States can reach about $90,000, which is enough for him to live a decent life, maybe he just likes this state of life.
The seller who struck a deal with Laszlo Hanyecz was a 19-year-old California boy named Jeremy. Stendivent, who has been exposed to Bitcoin since 2009, has mined thousands of bitcoins himself. Since 2010, the price of bitcoin has been climbing, such a boy with a lot of bitcoin must be rich now, right?
In fact, Jeremy was also an early consumer of Bitcoin, and he used Bitcoin to pay online or offline whenever he had the opportunity. According to him, he spent the 10,000 bitcoins on a trip with his girlfriend.
In 2018, Jeremy admitted in an interview that he never thought that Bitcoin would have such room for appreciation in the future. Even so, he doesn't regret spending the bitcoins, and he feels that the pizza sale brought him a total of $400 in income, which is ten times the value, and the deal is still a good deal. Today, he has only $119 worth of Bitcoin left in his wallet.
Two people who also held a large amount of bitcoin have passed by huge wealth, both share the same values and consumption views, and also have a positive and optimistic life state. It's like Forrest Gump's words: "Life is a box of chocolates, you never know what the next one will be." ”
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