Hanyecz was one of those early contributors. He even famously developed the code that allowed Bitcoin to be mined using graphics cards (GPUs) rather than standard computer processors (CPUs), allowing him to accumulate vast quantities of the coin. The History of Bitcoin Pizza Day: 10,000 BTC for a Pizza
, when Florida programmer Laszlo Hanyecz bought two Papa John's pizzas buy pizza with bitcoin
In the spring of 2010, Bitcoin was a little over a year old and largely operated as an experimental concept among a small community of computer geeks, cryptographers, and programmers. The digital tokens had no designated physical-world monetary value and were primarily earned by leaving home computers running complex processing operations, a process known as mining. Hanyecz was one of those early contributors