On Friday, the Bitcoin community celebrated the 16th anniversary of the historic “Pizza Day.” This date went down in history as the first commercial transaction where real-world goods were purchased using Bitcoin. In May 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz offered on an online forum to buy two Papa John's pizzas for 10,000 BTC, which was worth approximately 41 USD at the time. This is reported by Cointelegraph.com .
At current market prices, the value of those 10,000 BTC has exceeded 767 million USD. At the all-time high recorded in October 2025 of 126,000 USD, these assets were worth more than 1.2 billion USD. Nischal Shetty, founder of the WazirX exchange, noted that at that time, only a few hundred transactions were made on the Bitcoin network per day, and there was almost no payment infrastructure.
Hanyecz's experiment proved that Bitcoin could serve not only as an online experiment but also as a means of payment in the real world. Today, Bitcoin is being adopted at the state level. In particular, initiatives such as creating strategic Bitcoin reserves and introducing tax incentives for crypto payments in 2024 are in the global spotlight.
Additionally, in April 2026, the Iranian government announced that it would accept Bitcoin, USD stablecoins, and the Chinese yuan for customs duties on oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz. While on-chain data currently shows that Tether (USDt) is used more for oil duties, Bitcoin's role in the global economy is becoming increasingly solidified.
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