Bitcoin Booms on Pizza Day
An American and a Brit made history on May the 22nd 2010, when the former offered 10,000 bitcoins for a pizza. An offer taken by the Brit, who phoned Papa John’s and sent the American the pizza he craved. That was the first real world transaction with decentralized free market money in history, making it an event to celebrate which bitcoiners do every year on this very day. And the day couldn’t be more beautiful here in London. The sky is clear blue, a rarity. In New York City, one of the biggest blockchain conference is about to begin. In Slovenia, they are soon to dive into a massive....
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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....
All Pizza Hut locations in Venezuela now accept a broad range of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, via the payment platform Cryptobuyer. Pizza Hut joins Burger King, Intercontinental Hotel, Traki, and several other major stores in Venezuela that accept bitcoin. Pizza Hut Accepts Bitcoin Cryptobuyer announced on Friday that all Pizza Hut restaurants in Venezuela now accept cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin. The company wrote: From today, you can share with your family and pay with cryptocurrencies … in any of the Pizza Hut restaurants in Venezuela. The announcement adds that....
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....
What a peculiar combination: bitcoin and pizza. Nonetheless, an entire day has been designated for each of these occasions. All of this is done in recognition of the innovations that crypto has brought to the world. Since their creation, cryptocurrencies have dominated the global virtual currency landscape, and now everyone is mining this coin or […]
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....