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Meet the infamous bitcoin pizza guy who squandered a $500m haul – NEWS.com.au
Meet the infamous bitcoin pizza guy who squandered a $500m haul
In May 2010, California student Jeremy Sturdivant, then 19, noticed a bizarre request on a cryptocurrency Internet forum: He could receive 10,000 bitcoins, at the time reportedly valued at roughly $41, in exchange for the delivery of two large pizzas to Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz, 28. Sturdivant filled the order, sending him two large pizzas (cheese and “supreme”) from Papa John’s — a transaction that would become the first physical purchase made with bitcoin in history, marked by the annual…
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