Would You Pay $1B for a Pizza?

It's May 22, otherwise known as Bitcoin Pizza Day. Meaning, it's the day to mourn the fate of software developer Laszlo Hanyecz, who famously paid 10,000 bitcoin for a pizza on this date back in 2010—the first real-world transaction involving the digital currency.

• The 2025 anniversary is especially fitting because bitcoin is trading north of $111,000, an all-time high, reports CNBC. Hanyecz's stash, all but worthless at the time, would be worth more than $1 billion.

• Forbes rubs a bit more salt in the wound: It reports that Hanyecz made follow-up pizza orders in 2010 that put the figure at what he spent closer to $8.7 billion in modern-day value.
• Hanyecz says he is "poor now" and solicits bitcoin donations on his X platform account.

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