In what may be the most niche celebration in the world, today marks Bitcoin Pizza Day. For crypto enthusiasts, it marks eight years exactly since 10,000 bitcoin (BTC) was used to buy two pizzas.

Bitcoin Pizza Day is sort of like the Bitcoin version of Thanksgiving, but instead of turkey, it’s pizza. It’s a time for thankfulness and remembrance for how far we have all come. Bitcoin Pizza Day ...

Today is a significant day for the crypto world. May 22, 2010, will forever be remembered in the history of cryptocurrency as Bitcoin Pizza Day. On this date, a Florida programmer named Laszlo ...

Bitcoin Pizza Day is about remembering the contributions made by early pioneers — and we are all still very early! — and remembering, perhaps most importantly, that bitcoin regret (selling and/or ...

It is Bitcoin Pizza Day again, which lands on May 22 every year. The day was coined after Laszlo Hanyecz, who in 2010 bought two Papa John’s pizzas using 10,000 bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.17%, in the ...

This year’s Pizza Day might also be viewed in a new context following the release of 120 pages worth of Satoshi’s emailed correspondence with early Bitcoin developer Martti Malmi (a.k.a ...

On Pizza Day 2025, Bitcoin even surged to an all-time high above $111,800. The story has become legend. Hanyecz himself mined the coins when Bitcoin was valued at less than a penny.

Bitcoin was in its infancy at the time and so Hanyecz continued his feeding frenzy through the summer of 2010, until he wrote that he could no longer afford to fork over so many bitcoin for pizza.

Four years ago this week, on May 22, 2010, a BTC fan and programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 Bitcoins - about $40 at that time - for two Papa John's pizzas (pictured above). He wrote: I ...

Bitcoin Pizza Day reminds us of how far we have come since the first ever Bitcoin purchase in 2010, and can help us predict what the future has in store for us. 6447 Total views .