TIL that in the first "real-world transaction with bitcoin" a programmer paid 10,000 bitcoins for 2 large Papa John's pizzas. 4 years later, those bitcoins were worth 5.12 million dollars.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-pizza-day-celebrating-pizza-bought-10000-btc/



Submitted April 09, 2015 at 12:53AM by Cupcake-Warrior http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31wpv1/til_that_in_the_first_realworld_transaction_with/