{"id":84979,"date":"2024-10-12T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T07:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=84979"},"modified":"2024-10-12T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T07:56:37","slug":"florida-man-bought-two-pizzas-for-10000-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/florida-man-bought-two-pizzas-for-10000-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer from Florida, etched his name in history by buying two Papa John\u2019s pizzas for 10,000\u00a0Bitcoin, signaling the inaugural real-world transaction with the cryptocurrency.\n<figure id='\"attachment_32284\"' class='\"wp-caption' alignnone aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-32284\"'><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-medium' wp-image-32284 entered lazyloaded src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/viralstrange.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/03%5C/IMG_6597-728x486.jpeg%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/viralstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_6597-728x486.jpeg' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"728\"' height='\"486\"' data-lazy-srcset='\"https:\/\/viralstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_6597-728x486.jpeg' data-lazy-sizes='\"(max-width:' data-lazy-src='\"https:\/\/viralstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_6597-728x486.jpeg\"' data-ll-status='\"loaded\"' data-lazy- title='\"\"'>\n<p><em>Unsplash\n<p>During that period, the value of the Bitcoin involved in the purchase hovered around $41, reflecting the nascent stage of the\u00a0cryptocurrency, which lacked widespread recognition.\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-15>\n<div class='\"cnx-ad-container' cnx-full-height>\n<div class='\"cnx-ad-bid-slot\"' aria-hidden='\"true\"'>\n<div class='\"cnx-ad-slot\"'>\n<div class='\"cnx-ad-slot\"'>\n<div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure id='\"attachment_32285\"' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-32285\"'><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-medium' wp-image-32285 entered lazyloaded src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/viralstrange.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/03%5C/IMG_6598-324x486.jpeg%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/viralstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_6598-324x486.jpeg' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"324\"' height='\"486\"' data-lazy-srcset='\"https:\/\/viralstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_6598-324x486.jpeg' data-lazy-sizes='\"(max-width:' data-lazy-src='\"https:\/\/viralstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_6598-324x486.jpeg\"' data-ll-status='\"loaded\"' data-lazy- title='\"\"'>\n<p style='\"text-align:' left><em>Unsplash\n<p>Nevertheless, had Hanyecz retained those 10,000 Bitcoin until the cryptocurrency\u2019s zenith, his initial expenditure would have ballooned to an astonishing sum exceeding $700 million.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Back in May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer from Florida, etched his name in history by buying two Papa John\u2019s pizzas for 10,000\u00a0Bitcoin, signaling the inaugural real-world transaction with the cryptocurrency. Unsplash During that period, the value of the Bitcoin involved in the purchase hovered around $41, reflecting the nascent stage of the\u00a0cryptocurrency, which lacked &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":84980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84981,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84979\/revisions\/84981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></em></p></figure></div></div></div></div></div></div></em></p></figure></p>