Sixteen years ago, 10,000 Bitcoin were spent on two pizzas, marking the first real-world crypto purchase. That amount of Bitcoin is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Sixteen years ago, on May 22, 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz made history by spending 10,000 Bitcoin on two large pizzas. This event, now celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day, was the first time Bitcoin was used to buy a physical item. Hanyecz posted on a forum offering the Bitcoin for pizzas delivered to his home. The pizzas cost about $41 at the time, but today, those 10,000 Bitcoin would be worth an astonishing amount, highlighting Bitcoin's incredible growth.