The first documented commercial purchase with the help of Bitcoin was an order for two pizzas all the way back in May 2021, when a programmer paid 10,000 BTC (which would now be worth $580 million) for a Bitcoin Talk forum user to send him two pizzas from a Papa John’s in the U.S. Now, pizza and Bitcoin make a return.
A driver who owned $5 in BTC as a tip for pizza delivery services seems to have surfaced after seven years. According to a post from a Redditor named btcbible, the Bitcoiner placed the order for the pizza on December 28th, 2013. The delivery person had two options for the tip: a $5 bill, or 0.0069 BTC on a paper wallet, which had a value of $5 at the time.
Now, it seems that said driver reached out to btcbible today in order to get some help on getting the funds into a hot wallet. With BTC growing to reach a new ATH of over $58,000, the amount received by the delivery person is now worth $400 – that is an increase of 7,000%.
The Redditor said “I left the pizza guy choose between $5 in fiat or BTC. Needless to say, he chose wisely. I’ve responded with instructions on how to import the private key via Electrum.”
The Bitcoin-enthusiast went on to say that they weren’t “Bitcoin rich” as they had to liquidate most of their funds in 2020 in order to buy a home.