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Card VIII-19: LASZLO HANYECZ – I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day.

Series VIII · Card 19 of 21 · THE SCRIPTORIUM

I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day.

LASZLO HANYECZ · BITCOINTALK · 18.05.2010

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Source

BitcoinTalk, “Pizza for bitcoins?”, 18 May 2010

Open source · bitcointalk.org ↗

About the author

American programmer and early Bitcoin miner. On 22 May 2010 he paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, the first known purchase of real goods with Bitcoin, now celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day.

About the source

Bitcointalk: the forum Satoshi opened in November 2009 to talk about Bitcoin.

The question on the back

How often do you do something for the first time, just to see if it works?