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On 17 Mar 2010, the now-defunct BitcoinMarket.com exchange is the first one that starts operating. On 22 May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first real-world transaction by buying two pizzas in Jacksonville, Florida for 10,000 BTC. In five days, the price grew 1000%, rising from $0.008 to $0.08 for 1 bitcoin
Back then it was faster, cheap and useable. Try buying a pizza today with a few Satoshis. The fees would kill the transaction, and it would take a few hours to go through to the pizza man. I know people that use it to transact (no, not all my friends are online drug and arms dealers) but it's more of a novelty value now. Many Zimbabweans also still use it as it can sometimes be cheaper than the taxi fees to transport hard currency across the border.