**What happened to the guy who once bought pizza with 1000 BTC? The truth will have you laughing like a pig!**
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz used 10,000 BTC to buy two pizzas — at today’s prices, those pizzas are worth over $600 million. But you wouldn’t believe it, this “crypto foodie” was rumored to have gone crazy because of Bitcoin’s skyrocketing price, with some even saying he “cried into his pillow every day.”
**Plot twist**: Laszlo himself later came forward to clarify that he didn’t sell off all his Bitcoin — he mined over 100,000 BTC back in 2010 and gradually cashed out to buy a house, a car, and even donated some to the open-source community. What’s even cooler is that he’s still mining with GPUs, but now he’s mining Ethereum Classic. When asked if he regrets it, he calmly said, “I ate the most expensive pizza in history, but I also became the first person to buy a physical item with cryptocurrency — that story is enough for me to brag about for a lifetime.”
**Fun fact**: The pizza shop owner who took the order, Jeremy, casually stashed the 10,000 BTC in an old wallet and only remembered to check it in 2018, discovering it was worth $8 million — he quit his job on the spot and now spends his days sipping coconut water on the beach.
**The comments section is on fire**: Some calculated that if the BTC used to buy the pizzas was held onto until now, it could buy the entire Pizza Hut; others are asking Laszlo to bring them along next time he orders pizza — they’ll just take one bite, and he can keep the rest of the BTC.
**Source of the real info**: Laszlo’s own replies on the BitcoinTalk forum in 2019, and the original interview with CoinDesk in 2021.
#Crypto #Blockchain
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz used 10,000 BTC to buy two pizzas — at today’s prices, those pizzas are worth over $600 million. But you wouldn’t believe it, this “crypto foodie” was rumored to have gone crazy because of Bitcoin’s skyrocketing price, with some even saying he “cried into his pillow every day.”
**Plot twist**: Laszlo himself later came forward to clarify that he didn’t sell off all his Bitcoin — he mined over 100,000 BTC back in 2010 and gradually cashed out to buy a house, a car, and even donated some to the open-source community. What’s even cooler is that he’s still mining with GPUs, but now he’s mining Ethereum Classic. When asked if he regrets it, he calmly said, “I ate the most expensive pizza in history, but I also became the first person to buy a physical item with cryptocurrency — that story is enough for me to brag about for a lifetime.”
**Fun fact**: The pizza shop owner who took the order, Jeremy, casually stashed the 10,000 BTC in an old wallet and only remembered to check it in 2018, discovering it was worth $8 million — he quit his job on the spot and now spends his days sipping coconut water on the beach.
**The comments section is on fire**: Some calculated that if the BTC used to buy the pizzas was held onto until now, it could buy the entire Pizza Hut; others are asking Laszlo to bring them along next time he orders pizza — they’ll just take one bite, and he can keep the rest of the BTC.
**Source of the real info**: Laszlo’s own replies on the BitcoinTalk forum in 2019, and the original interview with CoinDesk in 2021.
#Crypto #Blockchain