On May 22, 2010, a notable event occurred within the small community of users of crypto-currencies, then in its infancy. It was on that day that the very first transaction made with the aim of buying a good from daily life was validated. Its transmitter, Laszlo Hanyecz, thus paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas.
1 year after its creation, nobody had ever made purchases in bitcoins
In May 2010, it was already more than a year ago that some amateurs of new technologies were mining the bitcoin, a crypto-money, resulting from the Bitcoin protocol, supposedly developed by a certain Satoshi Nakamoto, a person whose True identity. Yet, no one had ever carried out any transaction in order to buy a physical good with this motto.
On May 22, 2010, Lazlo Hanyecz, a developer living in Florida, decided to send a bottle to the sea on BitcoinTalk, a chat room dedicated to Bitcoin users. "I'm willing to pay 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, say two big ones, so I would have to leave for tomorrow. You can make the pizzas yourself and deliver them to me, or order them for me in a shop. What I want is simply to have me eat in exchange for bitcoins. " At the time, a bitcoin was trading between $ 0.003 and $ 0.004, so the developer was offering the equivalent of $ 30 or $ 40 for his pizzas.