You know, usually when people talk about Laszlo Hanyecz, they only remember the pizza. But Laszlo Hanyecz himself considers that event far from the most important in his life. It turns out he mined about 100,000 BTC in the early days of Bitcoin and spent roughly half of it on various things, including those two pizzas for 10,000 BTC on May 22, 2010. He either sold or gave away the other half, earning a few thousand dollars from all of it, which he used to build a new computer.

But what really concerns Laszlo Hanyecz is his contribution to the development of Bitcoin. He says he was not stingy and was willing to overpay for any opportunity to participate in the project. The most significant thing for him was that he managed to port Bitcoin from Windows to MacOS. Satoshi Nakamoto created the source code on Windows but didn’t know how to compile it for Mac, so he turned to Hanyecz. Laszlo Hanyecz took on this task, and his source code was shared online, allowing Mac users to join the network.

So, when every year on May 22 the crypto community remembers the pizza day, it’s worth remembering that Laszlo Hanyecz made a much deeper contribution to Bitcoin’s history than just making the first documented purchase. His work helped Bitcoin become a truly cross-platform system in its early stages of development.