What did Laszlo Hanyecz buy with 10,000 bitcoins in 2010?

Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas with 10,000 bitcoins in 2010. The purchase is remembered as the first widely known real-world commercial transaction using bitcoin.

On May 22, 2010, Hanyecz, a programmer and early Bitcoin user, posted on the Bitcointalk forum offering 10,000 BTC to anyone who would order him two pizzas. Jeremy Sturdivant, then a teenager in California, accepted the offer and arranged delivery of two Papa John’s pizzas to Hanyecz in Jacksonville, Florida.

At the time, the bitcoins were worth only about $41, illustrating how little value the currency had in its early days. The transaction later became famous because the same amount of bitcoin would eventually be worth vastly more. May 22 is now celebrated in the cryptocurrency community as Bitcoin Pizza Day.

A common mix-up is saying Hanyecz paid for one enormous pizza or bought the pizzas directly from Papa John’s with a Bitcoin checkout. The deal was arranged person-to-person: Sturdivant used the bitcoins he received to pay for the pizzas. Hanyecz later made another pizza-related purchase, but the celebrated transaction involved two pizzas.