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BlockBeats News: On May 22nd, according to Forbes, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz, who spent 10000 bitcoins on two John's Pizza sticks in 2010, was more "extravagant" with bitcoins than the public believed. Hanyecz may have spent an additional 79000 bitcoins on subsequent pizza purchases that year, worth over $8.7 billion at current exchange rates. Hanyecz stated in a 2019 interview that he spent nearly 100000 bitcoins on pizza in 2010 and didn't pay much attention to these transactions. Hanyecz pointed out that Bitcointalk forum users often gave away hundreds or thousands of bitcoins to newcomers at that time. Hanyecz attached the Bitcoin address he listed in his first post on Bitcointalk as proof of his claim. Wallet records show that during the period from its creation on April 10, 2010 to the closure of pizza transactions on August 4, Laszlo transferred over 79000 bitcoins. Ironically, the remaining Bitcoin in the wallet is only enough to purchase a large pizza at the current exchange rate. The last major transfer occurred in June 2011, with a total transfer of slightly more than 81432 Bitcoin. Where did Hanyecz's Bitcoin come from. Between 2009 and 2010, the Bitcoin block reward was 50 coins per block (plus transaction fees), calculated at an average of one block per ten minutes. Hanyecz's 81432 bitcoins accounted for approximately 1.5% of the total mined at that time. Hanyecz was an early developer of Bitcoin, who not only designed the first MacOS Bitcoin client, but also became the first person outside of Satoshi Nakamoto to discover graphics card mining. After he announced this discovery in May 2010, the computing power of Bitcoin on the entire network skyrocketed by 1300 times by the end of the year. Ironically, it is the intensifying competition that has prevented him from continuing to 'earn thousands of bitcoins per day'.