Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!

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Trivia time:

The first real world Bitcoin transaction occurred here in Jacksonville, FL on May 22, 2010.

Laszlo Hanyecz was a programmer and coder living in Jacksonville, Fla., and part of the fledgling bitcoin community. At this time, bitcoin's anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, was still active in the community himself, and Mr. Hanyecz was one of the ones helping him build out the system. Notably, Hanyecz wrote the first software that allowed bitcoin to run on Macs, and configured the first GPU chip that could run bitcoin.

But he was frustrated that nobody was doing anything with their mined bitcoins beyond hoarding them, he said. He decided to try and change that. On a bitcoin forum, he offered 10,000 bitcoins to anybody who would buy him a pizza. Today that's worth about $5 million at current prices, but back then it was worth about $60. Hanyecz figured that was enough for two pies and compensation for somebody's time.

He finally found a taker, another coder living in the U.K., who called a Papa John's in Jacksonville, placed the order, and paid with his credit card. Hanyecz sent over the 10,000 bitcoins, and a somewhat confused deliveryman showed up at his door with two pepperoni pizzas. "Pizza delivery from London," he said in an unsure voice.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/05/22/bitbeat-happy-bitcoin-pizza-day/

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Trivia time:

The first real world Bitcoin transaction occurred here in Jacksonville, FL on May 22, 2010.

Laszlo Hanyecz was a programmer and coder living in Jacksonville, Fla., and part of the fledgling bitcoin community. At this time, bitcoin's anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, was still active in the community himself, and Mr. Hanyecz was one of the ones helping him build out the system. Notably, Hanyecz wrote the first software that allowed bitcoin to run on Macs, and configured the first GPU chip that could run bitcoin.

But he was frustrated that nobody was doing anything with their mined bitcoins beyond hoarding them, he said. He decided to try and change that. On a bitcoin forum, he offered 10,000 bitcoins to anybody who would buy him a pizza. Today that's worth about $5 million at current prices, but back then it was worth about $60. Hanyecz figured that was enough for two pies and compensation for somebody's time.

He finally found a taker, another coder living in the U.K., who called a Papa John's in Jacksonville, placed the order, and paid with his credit card. Hanyecz sent over the 10,000 bitcoins, and a somewhat confused deliveryman showed up at his door with two pepperoni pizzas. "Pizza delivery from London," he said in an unsure voice.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/05/22/bitbeat-happy-bitcoin-pizza-day/

That's great - I had no idea.  Thanks for sharing this.