A drunk British man is being hailed as a saviour after spending more than £300 ordering pizza for complete strangers in the US.

Daniel Sobey-Harker, 27, from London, posted to the social media site Reddit offering to buy a pizza for someone in the US.

But instead of purchasing just one pie as he had originally intended the Londoner ended up buying 30 pizzas for strangers.

From the UK to Hawaii: A grateful Redditor posted a picture of the pizza he received, courtesy of Daniel

Daniel Sobey-Harker is being hailed as a hero on Reddit after he sent ordered pizzas for strangers in the US

Things took a surreal turn when, after struggling with several different payment options, Daniel bought two digital Bitcoins which, unknowingly to him, were worth $550 (£352).

He became so frustrated by the carry on and ended up getting a 'tad merry' after 'getting though nine beers' which led to him placing the giant order, even sending one to a user in Hawaii.

On his original post Daniel wrote: 'Can someone help me (UK) buy a pizza for someone in the US? I'll reward whoever can get me a method that works.

'Are you in the States? Do you want pizza? Talk to me. May have gone overboard with Bitcoins.

'Like I bought two to make sure it worked and it turned out that's like $550 [£352]. Gotta be Papa John's tho as they're the easiest to sort out (sic).

'If you want a pizza write in a comment in this thread why you want one. I'm not very eloquent right now but there's about $160-$170 worth going.'

Daniel, who is chief marketing officer for the Campus Society, an online service which connects university students to peers on similar courses, said he 'didn't realise the conversion rate on Bitcoins'.

Daniel said: 'Bitcoins are worth about $220 each and I accidentally bought $550 [USD] worth.

'When I realised I decided I'd have to get a couple of pizzas out. It's a bit of a shock at how much it's taken off.

Exchange rate: One Bitcoin is worth £185.34

'I'm reading my emails at the moment and one of them just says 'What did you do last night? You okay?'

'I think I got out about 30 pizzas, and I've got 1,200 notifications on my account which will take a while to get through.

'The lesson here is don't drink and Reddit, but people seem very happy by it all.'

Daniel had pizzas delivered to Chicago, Hawaii, and one lucky user in the UK, which led to him being labelled the 'Jesus of the Internet'.

One happy user wrote: 'Trashed and giving out pizzas is the best kind of person.'

Another wrote: 'Wow it's amazing how challenging it is for someone in the UK to order pizza for someone in the US, but it is far more amazing that you have taken it upon yourself to jump through all the hoops to do so.

'Not only that but instead of getting angry about obtaining a whole $500 in Bitcoin, you make it rain pizza instead!

'Never let it be said that this OP does not deliver.He delivers. To Hawaii even. Cheers to you, mate.'

Explaining how the whole thing happened, Daniel posted on Reddit: 'OK so this is what started everything. /u/korantano posted in his iama [Reddit thread] request to victoria our open letter to ask if she wanted to work with us.

'Because he posted about us it we got a little attention on Reddit. We're a small startup so we appreciated the effort to get us noticed and sent him this.

'So we email back and forth and try to figure this out. The main issues being he's from a small town and it's hard to find someone that will deliver and accept paypal.

'A few days later I approach /r/randomactsofpizza for guidance.

'To which the idea of bitcoins is put in front of me.

'However I didn't check the value of bitcoins as in 2010 they were like worth s*d all.

'Luckily though it was with the work account that I purchased them, as opposed to mine, but on the downside that's not exactly a good thing in the eyes of my bosses that I just blew $550 on virtual currency.