Is a 10 year old bitcoin pizza worth a $45 million pizza?

In fact, it’s malleable, like the metal. Ten years from now, it may seem as absurd as a $45 million pizza. Laszo Hanyecz's 10,000 BTC pizza buy 10 years ago has a special place in bitcoin folklore, highlighting, however expensively, that participation is necessary for network success.

Is it time to order a pizza with Bitcoin?

Time to order a pizza with bitcoin? It’s Bitcoin Pizza day in the crypto community! About 11 years ago on May 22, Laszlo Hanyecz, one of the early adopters of the newfangled cryptocurrency that had just been coded into existence, purchased a pair of Papa Johns pizza pies using 10,000 bitcoins.

How many pizzas can a bitcoin buy?

That one bitcoin today could buy you more than 100 $20 pizzas — let alone what the 10,000 bitcoins Hanyecz spent in 2010 could buy. That amount of the cryptocurrency was then valued at $41. Hanyecz's pizza purchase was a big deal because no mainstream retailers accepted bitcoin as a form of payment at the time.