How We Were Buying Pizza with Bitcoins in the US, UK and India on Bitcoin Pizza Day 2016
How easy is it to order a pizza with Bitcoin nowadays? Three authors of Cointelegraph have tried to do it in the US, UK and India, and here is what came out of it. “Ordering Pizza with Bitcoin in India is nigh impossible” - Shivdeep Dhaliwal, India. I have never purchased anything with Bitcoin in India yet. Ever. No pizza chain in my city takes Bitcoin, so my idea was to buy a voucher with Bitcoin from either ZebPay or to credit a payments app called Mobikwik through Unocoin and buy pizza through that. Alas. This was not to be. The Zebpay voucher had ran out of validity and Unocoin....
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This is my official, first-person review of the website PizzaForCoins.com, which allows you to buy pizza with Bitcoin from the three largest pizza chains worldwide, instead of using paper currency. The thoughts and views expressed here are not necessarily shared by CryptoCoinsNews.com and are the opinions of the author, Evander Smart, alone. Being a old boy from Brooklyn, NY, and therefore having ordered, I don't know, a couple of thousand pizzas in my day, I think I'm a fair judge of how a pizza order should go down. From start to finish, I'm nothing if not experienced in the art, and now....
Laszlo's pizza. May 22 marks the annual "Bitcoin Pizza Day," an anniversary of the day in which one of the most expensive pizzas in the history of the world was purchased. The Story. Laszlo Hanyecz purchased the so-called Bitcoin Pizza on 22 May 2010. The programmer paid a Bitcoin Talk forum user 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas. The value at the time of the bitcoins was approximately $25. When based on today's exchange rate, that value skyrockets to $2,330,000. Here is the original post on the Bitcoin Talk forum: Here is confirmation of the exchange, which is considered by many the....
It’s that time of year. The anniversary of the notorious Bitcoin Pizza Day. On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, a developer, paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas from the Papa John’s franchise. Every year on this date, people celebrate this historic transaction that would cost $4.4 million USD at today’s current rates for 16 slices of pizza. Bitcoin Pizza Day....
Our very own Caleb Chen, chowing down on a slice. Thursday marked the four year anniversary of the initial Bitcoin Pizza Day. You can read about it here at our article which was featured by Business Insider and Tech Crunch. May 22 is a big day in Bitcoin history. In 2010, Florida programmer and BitcoinTalk user Laszlo Hanyecz offered to pay 10,000 Bitcoins for pizza. This transaction is famously known throughout the cryptocommunity as the first real world transaction/purchase used with Bitcoin. It is now known as Bitcoin Pizza Day. So I decided to celebrate. I went to CoinMap.org to find....
The famed Bitcoin Pizzas. May 22 is a big day in Bitcoin history. In 2010, Florida programmer and BitcoinTalk user Laszlo Hanyecz offered to pay 10,000 Bitcoins for pizza. This transaction is famously known throughout the cryptocommunity as the first real world transaction/purchase used with Bitcoin. It is now known as Bitcoin Pizza Day. This was his post on BitcoinTalk on that day: I'll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day. I like having left over pizza to nibble on later. You can make the pizza yourself and bring....