8 years ago, on May 22nd 2010, a guy named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 Bitcoin for 2 pizzas. I will spare you the intellectual effort required to calculate how much this is worth today: at the current market price it's $9,432,000. Yeah, almost $10 million for 2 pizzas.
Of course, no one could have predicted Bitcoin will get that high 10 years ago (well, maybe Satoshi).
The interesting part of the story comes now, though, when the same guy, Laszlo Hanyecz, made another pizza order, this time paying only 0.00649 Bitcoin, or about $61 for 2 pizzas. The order was made specifically for testing the new Lightning Network technology and, although it's still far from being market ready, the whole episode proved that the technology is ready.
Of course, the context is different now and it's quite obvious that we won't need another 8 years until LN becomes the de facto standard in ecommerce.
If you're curious about the technical part (what's a Lightning node, how a transaction gets validated and so on and so forth) you can have a look at this thread on the Lightning Netowrk mailing list, where Laszlo published his second coming.
Sorry, his second pizza story.
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