Two pizzas made crypto history.
On May 22, 2010, someone paid 10,000 coins for two pizzas, the first time crypto bought real food. It took four days to find a taker.
2 pizzas · 0.4 seconds · $0.001
On May 22, 2010, someone paid 10,000 coins for two pizzas, the first time crypto bought real food. It took four days to find a taker.
One confirmation could take about ten minutes. Fine for a payment, painful for a pizza.
A chain built for speed, adding a new block roughly every 400 milliseconds.
Scan, tap, done. The payment settles before the cashier finishes saying thank you.
A basic Solana fee is 5,000 lamports, a tiny fraction of a cent. That's Pizza Day, the Solana way.
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Both pay the moment they order. Scroll to start the clock.
Two large pizzas, about $40. Cut them as thin as you like and see what each slice costs in SOL and lamports at today's price. Tap the pizza to add a cut.
Paying for it costs about 5,000 lamports in fees.
On May 22, 10,000 coins buy two pizzas, the first known crypto purchase of real food. May 22 becomes Pizza Day.
Anatoly Yakovenko publishes the Solana white paper: a running hash clock so the network can agree on time, fast.
On March 16, Solana's mainnet beta goes live. SOL had sold for about $0.22 in its token sale.
In November, SOL hits about $260. Two $40 pizzas now cost about 0.15 SOL.
Solana Pay launches, letting shops take payments by QR code with near-zero fees.
After the FTX collapse in November, SOL falls below $10. The chain keeps producing blocks.
Launchpads make it easy to create a token in seconds, and Solana becomes home to the memecoin boom.
In January, SOL reaches a new all-time high near $294.
Pizza Day comes back around. Next time, pay in SOL. Your slice goes here.
One SOL splits into a billion lamports, named after computer scientist Leslie Lamport. Zoom from a whole pizza down to a single lamport.
The first pizza took four days to find a seller. Now the whole order clears before the cheese stops bubbling. Every May 22, order one in SOL.
Pick a date and an amount. See how much SOL it bought then, what it's worth now, and how many pizzas that is.
Prices are rough figures: the 2020 token sale, then January 1 of each year. Past prices say nothing about the future, and none of this is financial advice.
Two large pizzas, about $40, paid in SOL at the live price.
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