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On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas in the first real-world Bitcoin transaction. Those pizzas cost $41 then. Today they'd be worth over $800M, making it crypto's most legendary trade and the origin of Bitcoin Pizza Day. This year, OKX Orbit starts early: May 15-21, post with #OKXPizzaDay and tag @OKX星球. Memes, jokes, shitposts, absurd takes all welcome. Daily top picks get pinned and win exclusive OKX merch. Winners announced May 21. More Pizza Day events drop May 22.
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• Original event text: https://oyidl.net/ul/nErPHA4
• Event period: May 15 - May 21
➜ The full list of rewards will be announced on May 21
Here are yesterday's featured posts:
https://oyidl.net/ul/mLoMoua Breaking Through Social Classes
https://oyidl.me/ul/HlbNcUi A Bite of Salted Egg Yolk Pastry
https://oyidl.net/ul/L8Hyejn Genius Trader Junxi
https://oyidl.me/ul/6ssH9Fg Dreaming of Being a Village Chief
https://oyidl.me/ul/cAKUhbq On-Chain Old K
https://oyidl.me/ul/8qh4VYw Crypto Circle's Fire Qilin Flying

🍕 @OKX星球 is running a Pizza Day Meme Contest and there are only 2 days left!
In 2010, a programmer spent 10,000 $BTC on two pizzas. Worth $41 at the time. Worth... actually, let's not go there. That story still hurts.
That's the most iconic moment in crypto history, and why every May 22 is Bitcoin Pizza Day.
How to enter (ends May 21)
Post with #OKXPizzaDay and tag @OKX星球 . That's it. Memes, shitposts, comics, pixel art, absurdist essays... if it's pizza-themed and funny, it counts.
Open to everyone worldwide, in any language. All countries, all creators welcome!
Need ideas?
· "If those 10,000 BTC were never traded for pizza..."
· Bull market: can't afford pizza vs. Bear market: can only afford pizza
· The unspoken philosophy of pizza in Web3
· Or just drop your best meme and let it speak for itself
What do you win?
➤ Top posts get featured daily on the topic page. Selected creators receive exclusive OKX merch.
➤ On May 21, the full winner list drops. Top 50 creators take home USDT + voucher rewards.
Original content only. Credit your sources or you're out.
2 days left. Whose meme is the most unhinged? Let's see what you've got. 🚀
#OKXPizzaDay

What if he never bought those two pizzas in 2010? No Bitcoin Pizza Day.
No legendary story.
There is no annual meme festival. Sometimes, the best things in crypto come from “mistakes” Thank you for your sacrifice, King. #OKXPizzaDay
@OKX星球

🍕 Bitcoin Pizza Day Portfolio Check 🍕
2010: Someone traded 10,000 BTC for 2 pizzas.
2026: We’re still explaining to our families why that pizza is worth a fortune now 😂
My current crypto pizza menu:
🍕 BTC Supreme — the legendary original slice
🧀 ETH Four Cheese — powering almost everything behind the scenes
🌶️ SOL Hot & Fast — arrives before you finish blinking
🐶 DOGE Meme Special — financially questionable, spiritually necessary
Bull market: ordering extra toppings.
Bear market: staring at the menu and drinking water 🥲
Happy #OKXPizzaDay 🍕
@OKX星球 @OKX Orbit

People think the tragedy of Bitcoin Pizza Day was losing 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. #OKXPizzaDay
But that was never the real story.
The real story is far stranger.
Because in 2010, Bitcoin had no price… yet somehow it already had believers.
No Wall Street.
No ETF approvals.
No billion-dollar companies stacking BTC on balance sheets.
Just a few anonymous people on the internet staring at numbers on a screen, pretending those numbers meant something.
And then one day, a guy named Laszlo did something almost absurd:
He turned belief into reality.
Not by mining Bitcoin.
Not by talking about freedom or decentralization.
But by asking a simple question:
“Can this invisible thing buy me dinner?”
That was the real experiment.
Because before that moment, Bitcoin existed only inside computers.
After that moment, it existed inside human psychology.
That trade didn’t just buy two pizzas.
It created a bridge between the digital world and the real world.
And once humanity crossed that bridge… there was no going back.
Today people laugh at the price.
“10,000 BTC for two pizzas?”
But history rarely looks expensive while it’s happening.
The Wright brothers looked ridiculous before airplanes changed the planet.
The internet looked useless before it swallowed the global economy.
And Bitcoin?
Bitcoin looked like pizza money… before the world started treating it like a reserve asset.
The craziest part is this:
Laszlo didn’t lose 10,000 BTC.
He helped prove that humans are willing to assign value to something they cannot touch, cannot see, and cannot control.
And that idea may end up being worth far more than the Bitcoin itself.
@OKX星球

🍕 Imagine explaining to your future kids that someone bought 2 pizzas with 10,000 $BTC… and now we celebrate it every year like a national crypto holiday 💀🚀
Happy #OKXPizzaDay 🍕
Bull market = Lamborghini dreams
Bear market = extra cheese no toppings 😭
Still waiting for the guy who paid 10,000 BTC for pizza to drop his “long-term investment strategy” 😭
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#OKXPizzaDay
🍕🚨 Imagine spending 10,000 $BTC on two pizzas… and then watching it become worth billions years later. 💀
Every Bitcoin Pizza Day reminds me that crypto history was built by people crazy enough to actually USE Bitcoin before anyone believed in it.
Massive respect to Laszlo Hanyecz for making the most legendary food order of all time. 🫡🍕
That wasn’t just pizza…
That was the transaction that proved Bitcoin could become real money. ⚡
Now every slice feels like a reminder of how insane this industry has become. 🚀
Hey @OKX星球 👀
I’m officially ready for some Pizza Day merch and crypto vibes. 🍕🎁✨
#USTreasuryHits19YrHigh #TradeAIStocksOnOKX

Bitcoin Pizza Day Turns 16 — The $1.15 Billion Dinner That Built An Industry
May 22, 2010. A Florida programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz wanted pizza. He paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pies.
That dinner is now worth $1.15 BILLION at today’s prices.
The most expensive meal in human history.
The Brutal Math:
🍕 Cost per pizza in 2010: $20.50
🍕 Cost per pizza today: $575 MILLION
🍕 Cost per slice today: $71.8 MILLION
🍕 Cost per BITE: ~$8.9 MILLION
Every bite is worth more than most people’s lifetime earnings.
What That $1.15B Could Buy Today:
🏖️ A small Caribbean island
🏠 Most expensive house in California
✈️ A private jet + 20 years of fuel
🚀 A meaningful stake in SpaceX
🍕 575 million pizzas
Laszlo’s Take:
No regrets. Publicly.
“It wasn’t like bitcoins had any value back then. Trading them for pizza was incredibly cool.”
Either the most enlightened human alive — or cries himself to sleep on a mountain of “what could have been.” Both can be true.
Why This Day Matters:
✅ First real-world Bitcoin transaction
✅ Proved BTC could be used as money
✅ Started the cycle that built $2.5T industry
✅ Made Papa John’s accidentally crypto-famous
Without Laszlo’s pizza, we might not have $BTC, OKX, or any of this.
The Eternal Lesson:
Every time you spend BTC today, ask:
“Am I making the next Pizza Day mistake?”
That coffee you bought with BTC? In 2040 might be worth a Lamborghini.
That’s why Saylor never sells. He learned from Laszlo so we don’t have to.
Pizza Day Vibe:
🍕 Trade BTC pairs today
🍕 Stack some sats
🍕 Order pizza WITH FIAT (not crypto, you fools)
🍕 Toast Laszlo’s accidental sacrifice
Bottom Line:
16 years ago, two pizzas changed finance forever.
The most expensive meal in history was also the most important one. Without Laszlo’s hunger, crypto might still be a forum experiment.
Today we celebrate the man who proved Bitcoin works — by spending what’s now a billion dollars on dinner.
Hold your BTC. Order pizza with cash. Tonight, raise a slice to Laszlo.
🍕🚀 Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day 🚀🍕
#OKXPizzaDay

2026 me explaining to my future kids why I panic sold $BTC :
👦 "Dad how did people become rich from Bitcoin?"
👨 "Some held."
👦 "And you?"
👨 "I mastered buying local tops and funding whale exits."
👦 "What about the guy who bought pizza with 10,000 BTC?"
👨 "We don't discuss family trauma at dinner."
Bitcoin Pizza Day isn't about regret.
It's proof that nobody knows how valuable new technology becomes while living through it.
10,000 BTC bought pizza.
Today people still sell conviction too early.
#OKXPizzaDay 🍕@OKX中文 @OKX星球 @OKX Orbit

Traditional finance used to have the 'Gold Standard', but we in Web3 operate strictly on the 'Pizza Standard'. 🍕
Lately, I've developed a severe occupational disease: Instead of pricing things in fiat or USDT, I convert every single purchase into Laszlo's 2010 pizza (1 pizza = 5,000 $BTC).
Buying a cup of coffee? 'Damn, I just drank 0.0000001 historical pizzas!'.
Copping new sneakers? 'Oh no, I'm literally walking on 0.00005 future pizzas!'.
Think about it—a single slice from that Papa John's box back then, at today's valuation, could easily buy my entire youth and early retirement dreams.
Thanks to this high-pressure 'Pizza Standard', I've forged iron discipline. Whenever my hand itches to open a high-leverage Long/Short trade, I slap myself and ask: 'Are you about to throw a legendary pizza slice out the window?'.
Since then, I clutch my USDT tightly, wait for the perfect entry, and refuse to waste capital. Thank you, Laszlo, for establishing the most brutal financial metric in Crypto history! 📈💎
#OKXPizzaDay @OKX星球 @OKX Orbit
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#OKXPizzaDay 🍕 On May 22, 2010, someone bought two pizzas with 10,000 BTC.
At that moment, nobody knew they were witnessing the beginning of crypto history 👀🔥
Back then, Bitcoin had no massive hype.
No giant institutions.
No global attention.
Just a small community believing in an idea that the world still doubted ⚡📉
Laszlo Hanyecz didn’t just buy pizza…
he proved that Bitcoin could be used in the real world 🚀🍕
Years later, those same 10,000 BTC became worth hundreds of millions of dollars 💸📈
What once sounded crazy…
became one of the greatest financial stories ever created.
#OKXPizzaDay is more than a celebration.
It’s a reminder that every big revolution always starts small 👀🔥
#BTC #Bitcoin #OKX #Crypto #Orbit
#OKXPizzaDay 22nd of May in 2010, A guy who exchanged 10000 $BTC for 2 pizzas 😂 its worth now around $770M in current market price 😁if he hold those he can bought pizza companies 😂
#OKXPizzaDay 🍕 OKX Pizza Day & Crypto: A Small Story with a Big Meaning
Bitcoin Pizza Day is one of the most iconic moments in crypto history — when Bitcoin was first used to buy something real: two pizzas 🍕
It wasn’t just a funny transaction…
It was the first real signal that Bitcoin could move beyond theory and become actual value in the real world.
Fast forward to today, and with platforms like OKX, the crypto ecosystem has evolved far beyond simple peer-to-peer transfers.
Now we have: • spot & futures markets
• Web3 infrastructure
• on-chain access
• global digital asset ecosystems
But Pizza Day still carries the same message 👀
Crypto was never just about trading charts or speculation.
It started with a bigger idea: • digital ownership
• financial freedom
• permissionless value transfer
• real-world utility
OKX and other major exchanges are now part of this long evolution — bridging early crypto ideals with modern financial infrastructure.
But the key question remains the same:
Will crypto ever become truly everyday money?
From a pizza paid in Bitcoin to today’s complex digital economies, the journey is massive… yet adoption is still the real test.
Pizza Day isn’t about hype.
It’s about perspective.
Sometimes the smallest transaction becomes the first step of a financial revolution
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#OKXPizzaDay 1 - Classic regret meme:*
Me in 2010: "2 pizzas for 10,000 BTC? Deal of a lifetime 🍕"
Me in 2026: "Those pizzas are now worth $800M... and I'm still eating cheese"
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! 😂
#OKXPizzaDay
* - Absurd take:*
If I was Laszlo, I'd buy pizza with BTC, then sell the pizza as an NFT to buy back 10,000 BTC 😭
Smartest mistake in crypto history.
#OKXPizzaDay
- Short & punchy:*
2026: Still talking about the $800M pizza
Me: Trying to claim my 3 Bitcat before they become worth $2 🥲
#OKXPizzaDay
X/Twitter @OKX #OKXPizzaDay

#OKXPizzaDay During a bull market, everyone suddenly becomes a financial genius.
“Boss, add extra caviar on the pizza, throw some gold leaf on top too… after all, my wallet finally has six zeros.”
Reality? One decent USDT profit and people instantly start calculating their next 100x fantasy.
And now? This market feels different.
You hesitate before throwing away the pizza crust. You refill your water glass and convince yourself:
“This is patience… this is long-term conviction.” 🤡
Today on Pizza Day, I realized something.
People joke about the guy who bought pizza with Bitcoin, but that transaction was bigger than the pizza itself. It proved that a digital asset could actually function in the real world instead of existing only as internet speculation.
That’s still Bitcoin’s biggest strength. Limited supply, decentralized infrastructure, global liquidity — these are no longer theories. The market has stress-tested them for years.
But the limitations are real too. Volatility is still brutal, adoption remains uneven, and most people still treat it more like a speculative asset than an actual currency.
Bear markets expose the difference between hype and conviction.
Me? Buying discounted frozen pizza with USDT and telling myself:
“This isn’t coping… it’s character development.” 🍕
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10,000 $BTC and the Legendary Pizza, The Moment That Made Crypto Laugh… and Stay Silent
If that day had never happened, the famous “10,000 $BTC for 2 pizzas” trade, crypto might have remained just a world of cold numbers on a screen
But instead, it became something else entirely: a story that lives forever between humor, regret, and legend
A normal trade… before it became history
A hungry man
A pizza offer
A simple deal:
“10,000 $BTC for two pizzas?”
No hesitation
No predictions
No concept of “millions in future value.”
Just one simple logic: If you’re hungry, you eat. If you have Bitcoin, you spend it
Two worlds in one pizza
To a normal person, it was:
just a meal
a fun transaction
an ordinary moment
To crypto, it became:
a multi-million-dollar “what if”
a symbol of opportunity cost
a permanent scar in financial history
Same pizza
Different universes
When time becomes the harshest storyteller
What makes this story legendary is not whether it was right or wrong, but the distance between “then” and “now”
Back then:
10,000 $BTC = 2 pizzas
Today:
2 pizzas = one of the most iconic stories in internet history
Over time, the community didn’t just laugh at it — it learned from it:
Value is not what you hold, but what it could become
Small decisions can rewrite history, even if no one realizes it at the moment
In crypto, everyone has been, at least once, the “almost legendary guy”
And that’s why the meme lives forever
“I don’t fear red markets… I fear becoming the pizza guy 2.0”
“The 10,000 $BTC didn’t disappear… it became internet history”
“Not everyone gets rich in crypto, but everyone gets a story”
Some moments in history don’t feel important when they happen
They only become legendary later
The 10,000 $BTC pizza trade wasn’t just a transaction, it was a reminder that: every small decision today might become tomorrow’s legend… or meme
#OKXPizzaDay @OKX星球

spending 10,000 $BTC on two pizzas sounds insane. 🍕
But back then, Bitcoin wasn’t “digital gold.”
It was just an internet experiment.
That pizza transaction changed everything.
That was the moment Bitcoin stopped being just internet code and became something people were willing to trade for real life value.
Bro wasn’t just buying pizza.
He was making crypto history 🍕₿
#OKXPizzaDay @OKX中文
#OKXPizzaDay 🍕 THE TWO PIZZAS were never the expensive part.
The expensive part was belief.
Back in 2010, Bitcoin wasn’t “digital gold.”
No ETFs.
No institutional flows.
No billion-dollar treasury allocations.
No mainstream conviction.
Just an internet experiment almost nobody understood.
Then one small transaction changed everything:
10,000 BTC for two pizzas.
Sounds absurd now.
But that wasn’t really a pizza purchase.
That was the first real price discovery moment.
The first proof that a purely digital idea could be exchanged for something tangible.
That’s what markets needed:
not valuation…
belief.
Because before assets become valuable—
people first have to believe they matter 👀
#OKXPizzaDay
🍕🚀 BITCOIN PIZZA DAY – WHEN A SIMPLE MEAL ALMOST CREATED A BILLIONAIRE! 😂
Once upon a time in the crypto world, there’s a legendary story known as “Bitcoin Pizza Day” — the day when a pizza became one of the most expensive meals in history.
Sounds unbelievable? But here’s what really happened 👇
A guy once spent 10,000 BTC to buy… just 2 pizzas 🍕🍕
At that time, it seemed like a normal trade — nothing crazy, just “I’m hungry, I’ll pay in Bitcoin.”
But history had other plans
💡 Imagine if he had kept it:
10,000 BTC back then = only a few dollars
10,000 BTC today = enough to buy not just a pizza shop… but the entire pizza chain… maybe even the chef
🍕 The takeaway?
Pizza gets eaten, but the “Bitcoin Pizza” story lives forever as one of crypto’s most iconic legends.
So the real question is…
If you had 10,000 BTC today, would you still buy pizza… or buy the whole pizza empire?
#OKXPizzaDay @OKX星球


#OKXPizzaDay 1 - Classic regret meme:*
Me in 2010: "2 pizzas for 10,000 BTC? Deal of a lifetime 🍕"
Me in 2026: "Those pizzas are now worth $800M... and I'm still eating cheese"
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! 😂
#OKXPizzaDay
* - Absurd take:*
If I was Laszlo, I'd buy pizza with BTC, then sell the pizza as an NFT to buy back 10,000 BTC 😭
Smartest mistake in crypto history.
#OKXPizzaDay
- Short & punchy:*
2026: Still talking about the $800M pizza
Me: Trying to claim my 3 Bitcat before they become worth $2 🥲
#OKXPizzaDay
X/Twitter @OKX #OKXPizzaDay.
#OKXPizzaDay
My Bitcoin Pizza Confession (I’m the guy who said “no thanks”)
There are two types of people in crypto:
1. Those who wish they were Laszlo Hanyecz in 2010.
2. Those who actually were around in 2010… and did nothing.
Hi. I’m #2. And this Pizza Day, I’m ready to embarrass myself on OKX星球.
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The story you know:
May 22, 2010. Laszlo bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC.
Today, that’s $800M+ worth of regret wrapped in pepperoni.
The story you don’t know:
My friend Mark messaged me in July 2010.
“Dude,” he said. “There’s this thing called Bitcoin. You can mine like 50 coins a day on your laptop. Wanna try?”
I said: “Sounds fake. Also, my laptop gets hot.”
Mark mined for two weeks. Got about 700 BTC. Then he got bored and deleted the wallet.
Last year, Mark and I sat in a bar. We did the math. Then we ordered two pizzas. We didn’t speak for 20 minutes.
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Why I’m posting this on #OKXPizzaDay
Because OKX星球 said: “Come play. Memes, jokes, abstract literature — all welcome.”
So here’s my abstract literature:
I held nothing.
I have no private key.
My only wallet is a regret-shaped hole in my heart.
But I still love pizza.
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The real meme
Everyone laughs at Laszlo. But Laszlo did something. He made crypto real.
Me? I just watched from the couch, eating a frozen pizza, thinking “maybe next year.”
Spoiler: next year never came. Until now.
This Pizza Day, I’m not crying over 10,000 BTC. I’m buying two slices, posting this thread, and tagging @OKX星球 — because winning a limited-edition mug would be my first crypto win in 16 years.
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Final line
Laszlo bought the future with pizza.
Mark deleted the future by accident.
I ignored the future because my laptop was warm.
We are not the same. But we all deserve a prize.
\#OKXPizzaDay @OKX星球
— Yours truly, the guy who said “no thanks”
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