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Bitcoin Pizza Day Misery

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Long ago, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz was craving pizza. So, he bought two of them via the Bitcoin Talk forum. On May 22, 2010, he paid for those two pizzas in Bitcoin, which is widely believed to be the first-ever recorded commercial transaction using crypto for purchasing a physical good. A 19-year-old named Jeremy Sturdivant accepted Laszlo Hanyecz’s offer of 10,000 bitcoin for two pizzas made by Papa John’s, valued at around $41 at the time. Sturdivant purchased the two '10,000 bitcoin' pizzas and delivered them to Hanyecz’s home in Florida. Laszlo Hanyecz posted that he had received the pizzas and shared a photograph showing the pizzas and his family. Years later, that day would be recalled with heavy regret. If Laszlo would have held onto those Bitcoins, they would have radically changed his life. If he only knew what he was giving away! After the first transaction, Hanyecz would go on to do it many more times and spend a total of 100,000 Bitcoin on pizza that summer - now worth multiple billions! Here, interdimensional doppelgangers of the Hanyecz family assemble to commemorate the completion of the historical Bitcoin pizza transaction with future knowledge of the sacrifice. Deep, dark, and unending agony bathes over each figure in the famous Hanyecz family photo. Contorted facial expressions and heavy frowns are representative of the true raw emotions that Laszlo and his family carry from the event into our present day. The two exchanged pizzas are depicted in symbolic Bitcoin orange. This work was created with the assistance of Ai and influenced by master artist Francis Bacon.

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