Bitcoin Pizza Day’s Sixth Anniversary!
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....
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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....
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....
A guy who loves Domino's is launching a pizza brand based on a Papa John's event that doesn't accept the crypto he espouses. Just days before the anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day, Bitcoin proponent Anthony 'Pomp' Pompliano has launched a pizza company aimed at supporting small business and the Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund.In an announcement on Twitter today, Pomp said his Bitcoin Pizza brand would be launching in ten U.S. cities beginning on Saturday, May 22. The start date coincides with the 11th anniversary of the first successfully documented commercial transaction....
It’s hard to believe Bitcoin Day was only a year ago. Let’s go back to El Salvador in anticipation of that faithful day’s celebrations, you’ll find that the country is booming with activity. This compilation of news has it all; from tourism to mining, from conferences to meetups. For a while there, the war with […]
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....