A plaque in the Papa John’s on Atlantic Avenue in Jacksonville, believed to be where those two pizzas came from. Bitcoiners put it up; the pizzeria was paid for the pizzas in dollars. Source: Sanjev Rajaram, CC0
In May 2010 a programmer from Jacksonville, Florida, named Laszlo Hanyecz wrote on the bitcoin forum that he would pay 10,000 coins for two large pizzas. You could bake them yourself or order them from a pizzeria; the main thing was that the pizza be delivered to his home and that it have plenty of toppings. For four days nobody took him up on it. Then a nineteen-year-old student from California who went by the nickname jercos on the forum ordered Hanyecz two pizzas from Papa John’s with his own money, for about $25, and received 10,000 bitcoins in return. Hanyecz posted photos on the forum of the boxes and of his daughter reaching for a slice.
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Ten Thousand for a Pizza — Nobody Owns Money | Mike Fluff
