On May 22 , 2010 , a man in Florida yield 10,000 Bitcoin for pizza pie .
When Laszlo Hanyecz buy two pizzas from Papa John ’s that daytime , it was considered to be the first ever purchase with Bitcoin . The transaction paved the way for the financial revolution brought about by cryptocurrency .
Oh , and the time value of those 10,000 Bitcoin today ? Just a nerveless $ 650 million .
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Since then , May 22 has been dubbed ‘ Bitcoin Pizza Day , ’ commemorating the mean solar day that Bitcoin was first used for commercial purposes . Here ’s more about that black day .
This article in the first place appeared onQuartz .
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