On May 22, 2010, a man in Florida paid 10,000 Bitcoin for pizza.

The transaction paved the way for the financial revolution brought about by cryptocurrency.

Oh, and the value of those 10,000 Bitcoin today?

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Just a cool $650 million.

Heres more about that fateful day.

This article originally appeared onQuartz.

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