Laszlo Hanyecz, the man who completed the first documented Bitcoin transaction (BTC) to the world for a physical item in 2010 – 10,000 BTC for two pizzas – – bought two more pizzas using the Bitcoin Lightning Network Network

Hanyecz posted on the Lightning-dev mailing list today, Feb. 25, which he was to bring his friend to London to "under contract" delivering pizza to a local pizzeria in order to pay on the Lightning Network, because "atomic pizza trading software / bitcoin " is still unavailable.

For Hanyecz, the transaction "demonstrates the basic principle of how it works for everyday transactions, as well as the pizzeria accepting payment directly with their own lightning. "

The original BTC-pizza transaction took place on May 22, 2010 and has been celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day since. There is a Twitter feed dedicated to a daily view of what 10,000 BTC equals the market value of that day – the value of today is tweeted at $ 97,560,750.

This time, Hanyecz paid 649000 satoshis, or 0.00649 bitcoins, which equates to about $ 62 for both pizzas

In order to receive the pizza, Hanyecz decided that the best way to prove that he had paid was to show the pilot the first four and last four characters of the hexagonal string of his Lightning. If that matched what the driver had, he would get his pizza.

Hanyecz poses pizzas as a prize to be received only if the flash transaction can be done successfully, writing that he could not show the driver the pre-image, "the pizza does not would not be surrendered and it would be destroyed. "

The trial was a success, Hanyecz got his pizzas, but he added that "it is probably not a good practice to share the pre-image."

Hanyecz included a link in his post to several photos of him and his family enjoying the pizzas, a child wearing a shirt "I love pizza", the other in a "I love Bitcoin "a, and the notepad with the partial pre-image displayed in front of the pizza box:

<img alt=" Laszlo Hanyecz" src = "http://cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view The first physical purchase documented on the Lightning Network, a "second layer" payment protocol considered the next step in BTC's evolution in increasing network capacity for a global audience, would have occurred on January 20 of this year. eddit / u / btc_throwaway1337 posted that he bought a VPN router through a payment channel provided by TorGuard, a purchase comparable to the original Pizza Day.

Hanyecz finishes the post of his successful BTC-pizza deal by asking his readers, "So, is there any point in doing that rather than a"? chain transaction? For what I've described here, probably not: "